htaccess issues with trying to redirect images to new folder

I have a subfolder in my images folder that contains a type of report that had a recent name change, lets say from "oldforms" to "newforms" ...
Essentially what I want to do is redirect all files in https://www.site.com/images/oldforms/ to https://www.site.com/images/newforms/

I created redirects in the existing htaccess files at root and in the images folder...
Root:
RewriteRule ^images/oldforms/(.*)$ http://www.site.com/images/newforms/$1 [R,L]

Images Folder:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^oldforms/(.*)?$ images/newforms/$1 [R,L]

These both work fine EXCEPT the security configuration in the images folder htaccess (below) blocks the redirect.
#deny everything
<FilesMatch ".*">
Order Allow,Deny
Deny from all
</FilesMatch>

If I comment out the configuration, no problem, I tried adding htaccess to allowed, which is probably a terrible idea, but it did't work anyway. Any htaccess gurus out there that can help me out?

The whole point of this exercise is to eventually redirect search engines that have crawled the old folder.