Change of music folder location... songs cant be found.

im using itunes 7.2 on mac os x recently bought an external hard drive, and after i bought it i transferred all my music to the external drive, put the old library in the trash and reset the itunes music folder location under preferences/advanced/general. everything was working and playing fine until today when i emptied the trash. despite the fact that my itunes was meant to be finding the music from my exterrnal hard drive, apparently it had been playin it from my old library, in the trash, coz now whenever i try and play a song i get a " the song could not be used becausee the original file could not be found" message.... only the songs ive added since i changed music folder location play... despite the whole library being in the new folder location. i dont want to go through 30gbs of music and select the location manually, whats happening?
Cheers,
Ben

When you click "Yes" to find the file, you're supposed to browse to the actual song file on your computer to show iTunes where it has been moved. Are you saying you can't browse to the file, or you can't find the file?
If you can't find the file--did you move all of your song files to your new computer, too? The library file only contains links (file paths) to where the song is located on your computer. You also have to move the music folder (with all of your music files) and the artwork folder (with all the cover art).

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