Timeline Thumbnail Picture lost

I crashed yesterday during an edit session and had to hard quit FCP. When I relaunched everything came back OK, but I noticed that my thumbnail images in the timeline was red(as if offline). But when I play the sequence, everything plays OK...i just can't see each clip in the timeline except with the red offline graphic on it.
Is there a quick way to recover the thumbnails without reediting the clips back into the timeline???
Thanks,
Paul

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