ITunes No Longer Plays Music & Videos

I accidentally moved my library files from the C drive - noticed my error and moved them back. Now - iTunes won't recognize them. I am getting the following error message "The song [video] " " cannot be used because the original file could not be found." Have I lost everything???

Hi Dexterdawg
Can you direct me to the thread as I can not sort out the same problem on my iMac
Thanks

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    Can you direct me to the thread as I can not sort out the same problem on my iMac
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