Duplicate copies of music

Hi, I have had a problem with my hard drive crashing and had to reload my music files into Itunes. However, because the new files are in a new location the computer read them as all new files and created duplicates of all the songs (2000+). Is there any way to erase the original files (which no longer work of course) without going through and doing them manually? It is really irritating to have 2 copies of each file in the library.
Thanks
Kris

Have a look at Teridon's iTunes Scripts, Robert has a script in there for dealing with duplicates which might be of some help: Teridon's iTunes for Windows Scripts
Just note: The duplicate eliminator in Robert's scripts package only works for these two kinds of duplicates:
1) Multiple copies of the exact same file (e.g. "Song.mp3" and "Song 1.mp3", where "Song 1.mp3" is simply a copy of Song.mp3
2) Multiple entries in the iTunes Library for the exact same file.
The script does nothing for duplicates that are the same song, but different files (e.g. encoded by someone else, has different artwork or other tags, etc.)
There are also some third party programs out there, like "Dupe Eliminator" that might help in more complicated cases. If you do a quick web search I'm sure you'll find more: Dupe Eliminator

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