Updating Links in a Linked Document

Good morning everyone. I have a situation and not sure how to address.
I have about 100+ small documents (INDD files) that have a picture linked (different picture for each). Let call these documents "listings" I have recently dedicated a drive for these pictures so now all the path to all these "listings" documents are invalid.
These "listings" documents are being assembled on a master page (for a real estate ad).
Is there an easy way to update the link for the "listings"?
thanks for reading and for any response.
Ren

If I understand correctly, you've linked pages from several .indd files into a new file, and the links in the linked .indd files are now out of date. The only way to fix that is to open those files, fix the links there and save.

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> I created a template file based on a sample page.
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