Won't reconnect media

Hi There,
I went to open a project that has been sitting for a couple weeks and when I opened it, all of the media files could not be found. These files have not be moved, renamed copied or altered in any way. When I go to reconnect the media, it finds the file, lets me click on it, but then when I hit reconnect, nothing happens- no error messages, the window doesn't close, nothing. I can keel hitting located and choosing the correct file and nothing happens. Any idea what could cause this and how I might be able to get the files back. There is a good 50 hours in there.
I'm running a quad with the latest version of final cut studio. The files are located on an external firewire drive. I have already tried trashing the preferences with no luck.
Thanks
Patrick

I think it won't work unless you can recapture exactly the same footage... You need 3 seconds of footage before a capture can start and 3 seconds past the end of the original capture. Log it first. Don't use Capture now... it just leads to problems like you're having.
But you could recapture as much as you can, then simply re edit over the old shots in the timeline using the timecode of the clips in the timeline. It will be the same as the new captures. You can turn on the old TC in an overlay in the Canvas window (show Timecode Overlays) accessed from the oval button in the Canvas in the upper area. Click on the far right of the three... Then navigate to the same timecode on the new captures from the same tape. Hopefully you did record which tape the captures came from... right??? if not... it's gonna be harder.
Use "replace edit" as the edit command putting the playhead in the viewer on the same timecode that the canvas reports.
You can select a clip in the sequence and type cmd+9 to open it's properties if that helps locate tape numbers.
Jerry

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