"Photo is Missing"

I am going crazy. I moved photos from an external hard drive to a new computer. The photos are in my Pictures photo in finder. But everything I tried to work with them in Lightroom, I get a "Photo is missing". I use the locate photo function, but I don't understand what I am supposed to do from there. I have 2000 photos!

Never use Finder to move photos as Lightroom will know nothing about it. When you first imported files Lightroom will have created links in the database. Those links will now have been broken. If you moved entire folders, the quickest way to re-connect all the images is to look for a question mark in the folders panel and to right-click for the locate option. Otherwise re-connecting lots of individual files can be time consuming. In future always rename folders from within Lightroom and drag and drop files or folders to new locations from within Lightroom to avoid these problems.
To locate missing or off-line files click here for video help tutorial

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