"Missing" picture files in PE 9.00?

Within the last two months, when I open PE9 in the organize mode, some of the thumbnails generated during the process indicate "missing" files with a small yellow ? in the upper left corner. This represents about 10% of my 6300 photos. When I select one of these 'missing" files, the application will search for, and most times find the file. If I continue this process for a series of files, inevitably the application will freeze up, leaving me no choice but to shut down PE 9, and start over again. Any ideas as to what's going on, and how to fix it?

Seems like you have moved the files to some other location on disk or have renamed the containing folder or files themselves. This is so because files go missing in all these scenarios + when you delete the container folder/files externally i.e. outside Organizer. But in your case, reconnect is happening so deletion is not the case.
Reconnect is used to relocate these files and update their path information in Organizer catalog.
Click File >> reconnect >> All Missing files and let it run so that EO itself tries reconnecting and updating path information about these missing files.
Might take some time but let it be. You can do so in small chunks as well by selecting the option 'Missing Files' instead of All Missing Files from File >> Reconnect menu.
Let me know if that helps or some other issue arises.
Thanks
andaleeb

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To begin, attaching pictures for emailing purposes wasn't the main problem for me, because I am using Mail to read my Yahoo mail, and have been using the email button in the iPhoto app.
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I think you might have misunderstood my comment below...I just want to be able to find the photo files with a visual not just the file name. Because I have no other way to find them in a browse situation.
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I was formerly using Picasa on my Windows computer, which is a really easy app. and when I created a new album, it was very easy to find in the Windows Explorer when browsing for an upload. Obviously I need a little more time with the iPhoto, but I have been trying to do this for about 2 months when I got the computer, with what I thought was pretty decent common computer knowledge, but feel totally lost. I guess I feel a little bummed that I made a switch to Mac based on the concept that it was simpler, but it has proven to be much for difficult to do the very basic things I use my computer for everyday.
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