Possible to remap A LOT of folders in catalog?

Is it possible to use "Locate missing folders" feature for MANY folders which were just physically moved from one drive to another? I'm talking about HUNDERDS of folders which were moved from fast internal drive to slower external drives for archiving, however occassional access to the pictures is needed.
Thanks!

Victor,
I understand your reluctance to find them all individually.  If the folders are in some kind of structure that lightroom knows about, i.e. you moved a whold folder tree or several trees, you can do it with less work. Finding the topmost folder will find all its subfolders.
If they are all at the topmost level, you're going to have trouble. Have you thought of hiring one of your kids or a friend who likes to do repetitive tasks?
If access to the master images is indeed occasional, you could leave them all as not found until you need to access an image, and then tell Lightroom to find its folder. That might spread the workload out so it doesn't feel so onerous.
Hal
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