Relink files to pluraleyes xml file

Hi, I'm a videography student working in a team, and we are having some problems with filesharing. We have done a bunch of multi-camera shooting, and synched most of the clips in FCPX with multicam. For some reason the multicam clip for one interview didn't work, though (This is one long audio file, with multiple video files from two different cameras), so my partner synched it in pluraleyes and sent me the xml file. When I imported the xml file I got a string of error messages saying that "the item could not be read." Looking at the file paths in the error messages I saw that they were for my partner's hard drive, so I figured I just needed to relink the original video/audio files, which are all on my hard drive and already imported to FCPX. However, when I click on the clip or the event and go to file-->relink files, the "locate" button is grayed out. I'm totally confused and don't know what went wrong. Any ideas?

Hi, thank you so much for responding! I realized you're right, of course I can't relink the multicam itself, but I don't see how to relink them with the angle editor. It doesn't show clips in red--the angles are simply black, empty. I'm actually not sure how to see the individual clips at all in the angle editor, because each angle contains multiple clips in sequence. (Because the cameras would only record 20 minutes at a time, and this was a long interview.)

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