Making Offline photos "online"?

I have a bunch of photos that I imported from CDs. When I initially imported them, I chose to keep the full resolution files on the CD's. So in the Elements Organizer the thumbnails for these photos are marked to indicate that the photos are Offline.
I would now like to copy the full resolution photo files to my hard drive and have the Offline indicator removed from them in the Elements Oeganizer.
How do I do this?
I know I could delete the original thumbnails and re-import the CDs, but then I would have to re-tag all the photos and re-create the Albums they were in.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

Yes, using File > Move is the way to get your offline photos back online.
By the way, I strongly recommend not using the offline archiving feature of PSE. A number of people have reported here that past versions of PSE had corrupted the locations of their offline photos (as recorded in the catalog). Adobe tech support was of absolutely no help in either fixing the issue or providing a workaround. They were eventually able to recover all the tagging and other metadata from the catalogs, but it was tedious.
So it's pretty risking using a feature that Adobe has clearly indicated by its deeds that it won't support.

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1. Is the drive a USB flash drive (thumb drive) or an external USB hard drive?
2. When you connect the drive, is its contents accessible in Windows Explorer? Can you see the offline photos on that drive in Explorer? If you cant, then the problem is with the drive or its contents, and dont follow the rest of thes steps.
3. In PSE, select one of the offline photos. Right-click the photo and select Show Properties. In the Properties General pane, what is the exact path of the photo shown next to the yellow folder icon? (If you cant find the offline photos in you catalog, dont follow the rest of these steps.)
4. Leave the drive connected.
5. Download "psedbtool" from here:
http://johnrellis.com/psedbtool/#_Downloading,_Installing,_and
and follow steps 1 4. This creates the file output.log in the same folder where you extracted psedbtool post its contents here. This will list all the drives that are recorded in PSEs catalog along with all the drives currently connected to your computer.
With this information, we should be able to determine whats going on with your offline files. If youre not comfortable posting that information here (its not really useful to anyone else), click on my name above and email it to me.

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Windows 7 64bit
8 gigs ram
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Intended result
I need to be able to view all thumbnails for all offline photos
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As my library of photos grow, I'd like to move older, less frequently viewed/used ones to external hard drives. Ideally, I'd like iPhoto to still know about these, and to show a thumbnail representation of them, prompting with a "Please mount volume X to view this photo" when they are selected for viewing/editing. At the same time, of course, I'd like to have the more recent photos online and managed by iPhoto.
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