Moved projects to new disc, get "Where is the File?"

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I moved from an XP system with PE 7 to Windows 7. That didn't work out well so I upgraded to PE 10 and got the 64 bit version.
On the previous computer, I had my projects on the "E:" drive, a secondary hard disk, and I also had an "F:" disk. On the new one, the only hard disk is the "C:" drive and I put the folders from E and F on C.
So where I had files called:
"E:\Marketing\Video\Project A"
I have:
"C:\E\Marketing\Video\Project A"
InDesign and Illustrator are smart enough to recognize the change and find the links. But not PE. I have to do a search on each file name when it asks where they are, and they are not all in the same folder.
Is there a way to search/replace these links? Or another, easier way? I have lots of projects and don't look forward to fixing all the links one at a time.
Thanks,
Joe

Well, there's a better way to do it than you did it, Joe. If you'd have used the program's Project Archiver feature, you could have moved all your files over without losing the links betwen them.
But oh well.
When you open an old project file for the first time it will ask for help locating the media files. Once you browse to one, the program should see all of the others in that folder and add them automatically. If they're in a bunch of different folders, however, you'll have to track them down one at a time, unfortunately.
BTW, you aren't opening projects created by earlier versions of the program in version 10, are you? That may possibly work if the projects were created in version 9. 9 and 10 are pretty close. But generally, if you open a project created in an older version of the program with a newer version of the program, you get buggy behavior and sometimes total corruption.
So if you're doing that, make sure you keep a copy of the original project file some place so that you can go back to it with an older version of the program is things start going wacky.

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