PSE 9 Organizer crashes - can't reconnect files

I have thousands of carefully organized images in my organizer. I moved the files (no I didn't do this with the software as I didn't know that was an option . . i've moved files countless times in the past with no issue). With this move, my catalog is frozen. I can reconnect many of the files. But on random files, the catalog freezes and will not reconnect. I have to restart and try again (which generally does not work). I tried moving the photos back and starting over, but that has not solved the problem. The catalog and software is now largely useless and I'm extremely frustrated. Is there any fix for this that I have missed? It is not possible to reload all of the images and start over. thanks for any help.

Hi,
Yes. The best way is to move files from within Organizer. But now that they have gone missing, the only thing to do is to reconnect them in small batches say one folder at a time.
How much media is there?
Thanks
Andaleeb

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