Lightroom 4 catalog problem-can't find photos.

Lightroom 4 catalog does not recognize photos when external hard drive switched to a different USB port. The photos are in My Photopraphs in an external hard drive. I recently had to switch ports and now the catalog can't find the photos.

The tutorial was updated a few weeks back, and since Lr5 uses different badges to denote missing files I created a new version. Your link goes to the new version but OP is using version 4.
Link to version for Lr2 thru 4 is at http://www.computer-darkroom.com/lr2_find_folder/find-folder-old.htm

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