No data when opening trimmed archived project in PE8

I used project archiver to trim and archive several projects to my external hard drive to create space on my pc. I copied one of my projects back to my pc to work on it again but when I opened it I got the message that 'the file appears to have no media data'.  All the clips and other media are in the trimmed archived folder but do not appear in the project when it opens - only blank clips, no sound etc. in the time line. Only the titles are in tact. What is going on here? I thought the point of the project archiver was that it made copies of all the media so it didn't matter if they were subsequently deleted from or moved. I have deleted all the orginal projects and associated folders from my pc hard drive and have burned finished projects to dvd but I have a few projects I wish to revisit. Fortunately I still have most of the orginal media stored elsewhere so could recreate the projects from scratch as a last resort.

The secret is not to click on the cancel button when the locate missing file dialogue box opens as this makes it appear as though everything is missing, even if it's not.
You are correct. If you choose any option, besides using the Find to locate all of the Assets, the program assumes that one wishes to edit Offline. In most cases, they do not wish to do that. Then, the slope gets very slippery. If they do a Save of the Project, with all, or some Assets Offline, overwriting the PREL file, the only ways to link the media back is to manually do so, in the Project Panel, one file at a time, or to go to an AutoSave, and loose any later editing.
When faced with the "Where is file _____.avi?" the two courses of action should be:
Use Find, to restablish the links
Close down the Project with no Saving, and then find out where the files went to, and why they are missing. Then, one can move those to where the PREL last saw them. Lauch PrE, and Open that Project, and the files should be automatically linked. Remember: PrE's PREL uses absolute Paths for the links, so everything must match up 100%, or you will have the program asking "Where is it?"
Good luck,
Hunt

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