Media Offline from a USB

I have uploaded some pictures in jpeg format from a usb to a final cut project. Everything is working fine, I had saved it an everything then, my unreliable usb, was bumped and was disconnected. The pictures in my timeline now say media offline and the pictures in the browser have media offline with a line through them. What do I do??

Files in FCE simply "point" to the originals where you imported them. So your photos are simply "pointers" to your original USB drive. What do you mean "was bumped and disconnected"?
If you can reattach your drive, do so and open up final cut. Right-click on one of the "media-offline" files, and choose reconnect media. Then locate where on your drive the files are using the FCE Reconnect window, and you should be fine.
P.S. You should only have to point to one photo in the Reconnect window and FCE will find them all, provided they are in the same place.

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