Deleted songs from Library and can't find them!

Songs from iTunes were wiped out so I wanted to take the music from my iPOD and transfer it to the iTUNES Library. I was told to do to the iPOD folder on my PC and find the hidden folder that contains all of my songs (The folders were titled F00, F01 etc.) and copy all of those folders to my PC somewhere (I copied them to My Computer somewhere). I closed all of that out and went to the iTUNES Library. I proceeded to go to File/ Import Selected File, then go to were I had copied the folders, click on the first folder, highlight all of the songs and then click on Open. All songs were downloading to the Library. Once in the middle of this process, I didn't want to continue scrolling to view and copy the additional folder so I started deleted the folders with songs I had already copied. I then updated my iPOD/ iTUNES and then received a message that some of the songs could not be found. Is my music gone forever? There were about 20-25 songs that I purchased that I lost. Please help.

You deleted the folders before iTunes finished adding the songs. So they're probably gone for good.
You could try an undelete utility, or check your Recycle Bin. But I wouldn't get my hopes up.

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