Media Offline Showing???

In my timeline some of the clips are showing that red/white Media Offline. The clips are not offline however.
Does anyone know why these are randomly popping up on the timeline as "Media Offline"?
I am getting a little nervous about this. If I click on the clips on the timeline sometimes the preview picture comes back and then it goes back to media offline afterwards??
Rory

Sounds like you've opened the project with the scratch disk offline that contained the clips. Trash the Thumbnails... the location for them is found in the scratch disk settings window in the lower area of that window. When you restart FCP with the scratch disk online, they will simply rebuild.
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