Software Update Packages - the Package Source files are gone

I am running SCCM 2012 SP1. Something or someone deleted all my deployment package source files and folders for my software updates. Once I noticed they were gone, I was expecting there to be a simple way to have SCCM reload them from WSUS, since they should
still be there. However, I see no obvious way to do this in the GUI or from PowerShell. Is there a repair command for deployment packages that have lost their files?

Indeed, I just tested it in my environment and the real download won't start as long as it thinks that the updates are already downloaded.
The easiest way download them again is (if they are not all member of the same Software Update Group) temporarily add them to a SUP, delete them all from the deployment package and start the download again for all the updates in the (temporary) SUP.
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