User Library displays question mark for icon.

I've added a folder,called My_Library, which contains a labview llb file consisting of contains controls and VIs to the user.lib\_express folder. When want to select a control from the llb file and access it via the ", some of the control icons contain a large question mark as opposed to the controls icon. Why? Also the control is not selectable, yet if you display the controls name, it is displayed.
The same applies if I'm in the wiring diagram and I select a VI though the same mechanism.
Yet if I access the control or VI from the the control or VI is selectable and everything is normal.
Any help would be appreciated.
Robert

This usually happens when you moved file or when the files have been moved for you. Or when a folder name was chanded
If for exemple you first open a VI from a temporary location, then open you library, the path may be internally changed.
One fast way to rconnect them is to first open the VIs from the good location, then open the VIs that are calling the first ones, then save the modified VIs
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