Relinking Camera files

I've had this issue before when you get that little camera icon on the bottom left of your event library thumbnails and solved it by going to File, Re-import etc. But I copied over the files to my desktop then took them off the cameracard because I needed the space. Now the issue is they are AVCHD files from a Panasonic camera that come out as sort of one file if that makes sense. When you click on that you can find the separate files within, but I can't figure out if there's any way I can re-import them to FCPX. I am currently trying to 'export them for web' although that's to H.264 format and probably won't work, plus it seems to be taking a long time.
Any other suggestions as the footage is pretty important and there must be a way X can read it and let me edit.
Thanks
Warren

Sorry if not clear. So basically there are 4 files that I can't use because it's asking to re-import. When I've had this issue before it's because for some reason it's not reading off the copied hard drive files. So I put the memory card back in the camera and it did it. Obviously you can't export your project without doing this.
I wiped the card as I said so only the hard drive has my files. All I know is that there is a HDMI out and AVout connection on the camera. Would I need to link that up for it to see the archive stuff?

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