Awesome workaround.
I’ve tried many times to use the relink function with no success. I’ve read hundreds of page of manuals without figuring out how to make it work.
So… I followed your procedure and everything became SIMPLE!
You make a bin called for example “relink” and you load there the clips from their new locations. THEN you apply the relink function on the offline clips and it works. At that point you can delete the bin created for relinking.
Nice!