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Relinking and moving photos from "New Folder With Items"

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For some reason several of my photos have been moved to a folder named "New Folder With Items". I have no idea how or why, but I'd like to move them back where they belong.
My file structure is based on year, month and event like this:

2015
2015-01
2015-02
2015-03
Travel_Paris vacation
Family_Uncle Joe visit​
2016-04
New Folder With Items​
2016
2016-01
2016-02
At first the missing images couldn't be found until I did a "synchronize folder" (of the "2015" folder). This brought up the "New Folder With Items" folder within "2015", so the linking is correct, but the location is wrong (they should be in their correct month/event folder).

If I know where a specific file should be located I can easily fix this by dragging it over to its appropriate folder, but what do I do if I don't know where it should be?
I'm using LR 6.6 (perpetual) on a Mac.
 
Why wouldn't you know that? For each image you can see the capture date in the metadata panel, so from this information you can conclude where the image 'belongs' and drag it to the appropriate folder. You could also (temporarily) show the capture date on the thumbnails by using 'View- View options'.
 
Suggestion.
Sort the grid view in Capture Date Sequence.

Then as Johan suggested:
Set Grid view to show Capture T
MoB1.jpg
ime.
Drag and drop images to the correct folder.
 
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