Reconnect with changed off-line media path

Hi. I've had my catalogued images on a network drive for several years. Recently had a major failure and re-built the drive, re-loaded from backup etc.
Unfortunately, since the overall requirements for the drive had changed over the years, when re-building I didn't re-create exactly the same folder tree as before. While all my images are there (30,000+) and in the same relative tree as when they were catalogued, they are one level higher in the overall tree. As a result, the catalog (PSE7) doesn't marry up with the path to the folders and Organizer displays a red 'off-line' media icon for every single image. (None of the images is marked as needing to be re-connected since Organizer thinks the problem is the media being off-line rather than it being on-line but with a different path.)
With this many images, re-cataloguing the images isn't a realistic option. What can I do to get Organizer to recognise the drive is not off-line media and that the images are all there but on a different path ?
Thanks for any help.

To cut a long story short ... the original network drive was a Maxtor in RAID1. When one of its HDD died, it instantly became unbootable. Support told me there were no user replaceable drives inside and that as it was out of warranty to throw it away ! What's the point of RAID1 if you have to do that ?
Instead I downloaded hacked firmware and rebuilt with two new HDDs, then re-loaded from a USB back-up drive. Had been running fine again since. But its NAS functionality is limited compared to modern devices and I wasn't prepared to repeat the exercise when a HDD died again. So I bought a new NAS, moved the HDDs into it, re-formatted, and re-loaded my Catalog from the USB drive again (ie. not from the re-built drive but from a backup taken before it failed). Downtime for the whole thing was about a fortnight which I could cope with. But the new NAS has different reserved share-names (as well as a different volume #) so I couldn't use the original names that are in the Catalog and anyway I wanted to split the data between more than one share to exploit the additional functionality. So when re-loading I put the images into a folder tree starting at the share-name root rather than one level lower. I expected to have to do a lot of "re-connect missing file" operations.
Instead I found that Organizer doesn't think they are disconnected, but off-line, so doesn't allow you to try re-connecting them. Starting over with the missing tree level re-inserted isn't an option because I can't create the same root share-names on the new NAS anyway, and its volume # will still be different. What looks to be needed is a way to get Organizer to accept the folders are online and allow me to re-connect the images, as if everything had happened on a local drive, not a network drive.
Any ideas gratefully received.

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