Relinking Smooth-Cam files??

I created a number of Smooth-Cam clips on a project.
Then forgot to transfer the results to my portable hard drive.
I can access the suite I worked on (a very remote location). I'm wondering; it looks like the smooth cam clips are working from the original media (except where I created a shorter clip with a new name). It looks like the SmoothCam plugin creates an additional .mov.mtdf file.
Opening the project file now I find most of the SmoothCam clips are now saying they are 'unanalyzed'. Has FCP created a new media clip and stored it somewhere? Or are those .mov.mtdf files somehow being used by FCP when displaying the annalyzed SmoothCam clip? And if so, they are now unlinked somehow?
What I'm looking for is a way to reconnect the supposedly already analyzed clips on the timeline to whatever file was originally created by SmoothCam.
I'm on the road with a slightly cranky laptop, and this film was all done (with a fair bit of SmoothCam) on a brand new tower with all the bells and whistles. And needs to be finished up as quickly as possible (without that bells and whistles tower).
Any suggestions would be most appreciated.
Ben

Start re-analyzing. Relinking of temporary files is always an iffy proposition. It becomes doubly so when you are working on a different computer.
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Message was edited by: bcrider

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PhotonFocus MV-D1024-160.txt ‏5 KB

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