I moved my wordpress from the folder to the root by placing the index file on the root but now my individual posts/tags/and categories redirect well but anyone who linked to my old homepage receives a 404 error, so: clicking www.bourgy.com/wordpress returns a 404 but clicking on http://www.bourgy.com/wordpress/bridalplasty/ works. How can I solve this. Should I use a second htaccess file in the folder and what would the code be? Thanks. Just to add, the reason I could not do: Redirect 301 /wordpress http://bourgy.com is that it also redirects my admin and plugins which are in the wordpress directory.
WordPress has a bad habit of including URL and path information in the database so just moving the code is not a solution. You should search in your database (you can use phpMyAdmin for this) for the path and the base URL and update the data entries.