Reconnect media... not with original media files...

I have a feature film which was sound mixed and then re-cut again here and there.
After the re-cutting I have synched the mixed stem "Dialogue R" but NOT the "Dialogue L" of the stereo mix (I'm not sure why but this is what was done. The music and effects stems were also synched).
I now need to synch the stem "Dialogue L" as well to the final version of the film and I'm wondering if there is a quick way of doing it without having to make every single cut manually...
I tried to reconnect the media of "Dialogue R" (which is in synch with the final version of the film) with the original stem "Dialogue L" (not yet in synch) so to have the final version reconnected with the media that's not cut yet but this doesn't seem to work.
What can I do?
Thanks much for your help!!
Paula

You wrote - "I was advised to just pan the "Pan" of the "Dialogue R" all the way to the left and use that as my "Dialogue L" track. I've just done that but I still hears the sound coming from the right side of my headphones (my headphones might not be very reliable too though)."
So, what this person told you - which isn't bad advice - is to copy the audio clip, place on another track and pan the copied clip to the OPPOSITE side. Voila! You have "stereo tracks". Whether or not this is acceptable is up to you because - IF during the mix, the mixer did actually spread the channels left and right - in which case some info on your other missing track would not be audible.
I also suggested another way to do this - without having to make copies of each audio clip - is to just center the audio you already have in your sequence. AGAIN - this will work fine unless the missing track does have some audio that you need - say an actor talking that the mixer did purposely put all the way on one side of the mix.
Where you there when this was mixed? I have rarely seen dialogue spread out like that - it's normally centered. It's usually SFX that get spread around the spectrum.
Now, as far as why - after you pan - you are only hearing something on the right side of your headphone - no clue. Could be the headphones - could be how your audio is set in your system preferences - or, you might not be panning the correct clip! All sorts of things could be happening.

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