Trouble moving photos in Lightroom

I hope I'm positing this in the right place. I recently imported a number of photos from a workshop I took into Lightroom 3. They were on a jump drive that I have always used to keep my photos and move them from laptop to desktop. Have had no trouble doing so in the past -- I have catalogues on laptop and desktop, the photos themselves on the jump drive.
I wanted to rearrange my folders, so I tried moving them.
I get a "can't move with an unkown error." When I go look at them on the jump drive or on my backup drive via the Finder, they seem to all be there. The majority are raw files and I can even open them in Photoshop from these locations. I did convert to .dng while moving
Anyone have any idea what's going on? I do have them in multiple locations -- i.e. I also have the same folder in pictures.
I have tried moving them both via the Import dialogue and then just by dragging them within the interface.
Help!

Lightroom will move files and folders within the catalog using Drag and Drop. If the catalog is on a fixed disk, not removable media.
If the catalog is on a laptop and desktop and the photos on a jump drive the jump drive must be inserted at all times when the catalog is opened. Otherwise, Lightroom will be using cached preview images and cannot move them because the base photo is missing.
The above is not a very good workflow, so I am assuming you have Lightroom copy the images to both the laptop and the desktop computers.
The easiest way to make your changes would be to close Lightroom. Open the finder and move your folders to where you want them.
Re-open Lightroom, Select the folder that was moved and select Update folder location.

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