'Photos is Missing' message in Lightroom after the deletion of the image files

All my photos show the 'missing' message when I try to raise them.  Have you tried all the recommendations through the library, by clicking on the exclamation, etc..  Everything takes back me to my office whose photos have been imported originally, but have since been removed.  Any ideas?   I have 5.7.1, the update for which I just downloaded.

Well Lightroom never stores the original image file in the catalog.

It only stores the information on the w. (Rental, edicts, keywords, Labels etc) of the imported images

If the original images have been deleted / moved that the images will go missing inside the Lightroom.

I'm afraid that if you deleted the images, you will need to re import since the backup. If you still have a copy of the images.

Thank you

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