Reconnecting to XDCAM files.

Hello,
I'm having a weird problem that I've encountered before on a smaller scale, but it's now escalated to epic proportions and I need some help.
I've been editing a series for broadcast, shot and edited in XDCAM (I know, coulda transcoded to prores).
One of our media drives started playing up recently, but we weren't too bothered as we have everything backed-up.
Yesterday the drive failed, so we've started referencing media on the back-up. The problem is that I can't re-connect the clips in the browser/timeline to the media on the back-up drive without going through a painfully slow process.
If I select a load of offline clips in the browser, and choose to reconnect, I get the Reconnect Files window, but it just says - " is missing.
If i choose just 1 clip and reconnect, I get the same message, but I can locate the clip manually, however, I have literally hours and hours of media, all XDCAM, and broken into small clips.
I'm assuming that it's something to do with the tapeless media having no Reel number, or something along those lines. Anyone one how I can re-connect my media as per usual?
EDIT - Actually, it's not just the XDCAM media, but all media that didn't originate from tape.
Message was edited by: James M.

Michael Grenadier wrote:
For example, if the drive that failed's name was "drive1" rename the new drive with the media "drive1."
If the media on the original drive was in a folder called "project1" inside a folder called "Capture Scratch," create a folder at the root level of the new drive and call it "Capture Scratch" and a folder within that called "project1" and move all the media to that folder.
Right, I understand. I'm grateful for your suggestion, but i think I might run into other difficulties if I re-name the drive, as there is other media for different projects (not just fcp) on all our drives now.
If you don't know what exact folder structure of the original drive is, when you open the reconnect dialog box, it should show you the path for each clip.
Nope, it doesn't... i just get the " is missing message.
All FCP uses to locate the files is the "path" so if you recreate the path, fcp usually will find the media without any problems.
Hope this helps.
Thanks again Michael. I'm going to persevere with the re-connect clips one at a time method for now. I've managed to get 6 out of 7 programmes done over the last few days, it's just this final programme that has all the XDCAM media that is causing the biggest headache.
Even when I use the Reconnect File option, with all the names of the clips in the browser being identical to the names of the clips in the capture scratch, and I manually locate the files, I still have to uncheck the Matched Name and Reel Only dialogue box in order to select the appropriate clip.
I've resigned myself to the fact that I'm in for a very laborious task. Luckily I've been working hard and am actually ahead of schedule, so as soon as FCP is finished re-installing I'll crack on with it.
All the best,
James.

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