Reconnect media attribute change

I am trying to revise a project and have moved the media from my MacBook Pro to an external drive. When I try to reconnect the media I gat an error saying "Some or more of the files you have chosen do not match the attributes of the original".
The attributes in question are the reel and rate. I have not changed anything, just moved them.
Any ideas?

so, what you're saying is that you duplicated the contents of the capture scratch, from Disk A to Disk B
thats fine of course, but unless you've instructed to your FCP project to use the duplicate copy as the media source, then your project will still stay media is offline if you don't mount Disk A, because it doesn't know anything about Disk B ...
then again, you seem to be suggesting that Reconnect Media... is not letting you redirect the offline clips (on Disk A) to the new copies (on DIsk B) ?
the procedure that ought to work is:
in the Browser window, select all the offline clips, then choose File > Reconnect Media...
in the subsequent "Reconnect Files" window, click "Locate" and navigate the "Reconnect" browser to the new clip location on Disk B.
when you've selected the new copy of the clip, make sure the "Reconnect All Files in Relative Path" checkbox is ticked and then click the "Choose" button.
that should take you back to the Reconnect Files window, and the list of files in the upper pane should now have moved to thelower pane ... click "Connect" and you should be done.

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