Reconnect MULTIPLE Folders to Offline Media?

In Lightroom 2.4 there is a "Find Missing Folders" command, but I've been able to use this only one folder at a time. It doesn't seem possible to reconnect a LR catalog to numerous relocated folders in a single operation. This becomes very tedious when I have burned a large volume of images to CD or DVD in order to clear them from the hard drive (where they were originally imported from cameras into folders labeled by date). Similarly, the "Find Nearby Missing Photos" option in Locate says it only searches for others within the same folder, although I haven't tried it yet.) Am I missing a trick, or is this an important obstacle to managing offline assets in LR? -- JCarkW

>>Also, note there's an option "Update Folder Location" which may be useful for some of the things you are doing.<<
John -- "Update Folder Location" does seem to help a lot! Using it I'm no longer required to delete the original tree of image files from the HD before I can re-direct the LR catalog to the copy on CD/DVD. One remaining question though:
If I burn to optical (or if you copy to an offline HD) only SOME of the folders from a parent directory, leaving the others in place on the internal HD, is there any convenient way (short of individually, folder by folder) to update the links in the LR catalog for all of those that have been moved, while leaving the links for those that remain behind on HD intact? (I would want to do this, for example, if there weren't room on a single CD to burn the entire folder tree.) I'm assuming that Update Folder Location" is not smart enough to do this trick... Thanks again! -- JClarkW

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