Moved files on external hard drive cannot find my changes in lightroom

I use Lightroom 4 on a Mac.
I moved recently all my photos on an external hard drive, and nothing I've read yet could help move my images edited in Lightroom.

In lightroom, beside the heading folder I clicked on the + and added my external drive - it shows it's Green and alive.

All the pictures I had initially recorded on my Mac hard drive are now showing on external drive - good.

In lightroom, the subfolders in my Mac hard drive are now show with question marks that files are missing - who they are, because they are now on my external hard drive.

What is my problem, all the editing I did on these photos in lightroom before is now gone. How do the editing work I had done on these photos to appear on the external hard disk images? If I look at my pictures on the hard drive of the Mac, they show they have faded and disappeared, but it shows all my changes again on the photos. External hard disk, it shows the original version of the image with no changes made.

Note: I backed up my computer before moved me all my photos, so if I need to put them on hard drive on my mac, I am able to do.

Update

I have solved my problem. If someone comes across the question I was trying hard, I suggest to try move the files from WITHIN lightroom.

Initially, I had used my OS to move my files to image on an external hard drive, by simply drag and drop. Lightroom was not able to keep the editing I did on these pictures after that that they were moved. I restored a backup on my Mac and place the files in their original location. Then within the lightroom program, I was able to move the folders from photo (with modifications) on my external hard drive.

Julieanne Kost had a useful video http://tv.adobe.com/watch/adobe-evangelists-julieanne-kost/questions-about-lightroom-and-p hoto-management /

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