What do I do when a "?" appears on my thumbnail in LR 2.7?

I read that I'm to locate the original photo on my Hard drive and re-impor it.
It doesn't always work.
Help!
Thanks

The question mark is LRs way of saying "I don't know where this image is".
Click on the question mark and navigate to the drive / folder / image in question and click on it. This is not a re-import!
Do NOT re-import the image. Th image is already imported and all the data are in the LR catalog.
When the question mark appears, LR just has lost track of the location of the image.
This can have several reasons:
a) The image resides on an external hard drive and the drive is disconnected (all photos on this hard drive will appear with question marks);
b) the image-file has been renamed outside of LR.
c) The image has been moved to a different location and the move has not been done from within LR.
There are possibly more reasons but trhese 3 are the main ones.
WW

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