Another user with thousands of missing songs aqgain

Before I start, I've looked at the many threads related to this topic and none of them contain a good answer. I'm using the latest version of iTunes for Windows (11.0.a1.12) and subscribe to the iCloud. This has happened to me before and I spend hours, sometime days, manually locating each song.
This time around, I was running out of space on my C:\ drive and copied the entire iTunes Media Folder (90gb) to a 1TB external drive. This went fine and it is identical to the original which is located under Users\Owner\Music\iTunes. All of the folders are there and all of the music is organized by track/album/artist just like in the default location. All of the songs are physically there also. Then, I went to Edit Preferences / Advanced in iTunes and changed the location of the iTunes Media Location.
As you can guess, iTunes can no longer find about 50% of the songs (I'd understand it if it were 100%). I can do the manual locate 1 by 1 which takes forever. Reseting the location of the iTunes Media folder back to the original doesn't even work - the songs are still "unlocatable". Sometimes I can restore from the Cloud, sometimes not. The latest thing I did was to delete all my songs and File/Import the entire iTunes Music folder from the new location. As expected, I have hundreds of duplicates - one being playable and the other not found.
Does anybody know why iTunes cannot locate songs when they are phsically there and if there is a way to force it to actually go the the location specified and look? Also, is there any way to delete duplicate names en mass? Even if you could sort by the exclamation point (cannot find symbol), it would help.
With all of the stuff in the new iTunes, the application is still a mess as far as common Windows related maintenance functions go. I wonder if these problems abound on the Mac platform.
Thanks

Another point - after the mass Import, the song names displayed in iTunes are the same as the contents of my new library location excepting there are duplicates and the the tracks are "unlocateable" for playing.

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