Missing links in Indesign CS6!

Good morning!
Yesterday, my workmate and I did a .indb file in Indesign CS6. That .indb (book) is made of several .indd files (documents).
So far so good. Then, after it was ready, we linked all images (using the Links panel) to each .indd and then we saved it.
Today, I've tried to move those documents to my computer.
However, the Links panel now shows many missing links in the images, according to the image below:
I can't understand how Indesign CS6 missed links in this case, because we have already linked all images to each document.
Please, I would like to learn more about this process of linking images to documents in Indesign.

inDesign links documents via a file path.
It doesn't actually add the image itself to the document, but rather relays a link to the where file resides on the hard drive.
It then draws a representation of that image in the layout using a proxy thumbnail.
So when it's linked it is actually looking at a file path, say something like
If I move that file to a computer where the my documents folder has a different name say "C:\MyDocuments\Eugene\Images\Eugene1.png"
"C:\MyDocuments\Marcelo\"
Then when I open the file on Marcelo's computer the link would still be
"C:\MyDocuments\Eugene\Images\Eugene1.png"
I need to redirect the link to go to
"C:\MyDocuments\Marcelo\Images\Eugene1.png"
As stated above you should use
File>Package
Zip the folders the computer generates - and then send them to a new computer.
Unzip and work on the file.

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