Duplicates in Itunes:

I recently moves all my songs over to an external drive but couldn't access them from itunes. Thanks to responses from this forum I fixed that problem by moving the entire Itunes folder to the external drive. My problem now is that every single song shows up with a duplicate(all 250 gig) in itunes. Only one one of them gets accessed from the file. The other says it can't find the location.
My question is: Can I eliminate(delete) all the duplicates showing up in Itunes in an efficient manner?
Thanks in advance for your help.

Barry,
The steps given to you are ones that I would use to find and mass delete 'broken links'. These are iTunes references that do not have a linked underlying music file on the PC. It is not a way to delete true duplicate references that validly point to an underlying song file.
'Dead Links' may look like duplicates, but when you attempt to play them, you get the '!' indicator within iTunes.
The theory is that by editing all the song references within iTunes using the BPM field, only the valid references will update that field. You could then sort on that BPM field and mass delete all the songs from the Library that did not contain the edit.
See: http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=607582
Also -- Download this: http://ottodestruct.com/iTunes/RemoveDeadTracks.txt
Rename it to RemoveDeadTracks.js.
Run iTunes.
While iTunes is running, double click RemoveDeadTracks.js to run the script. It'll remove all the exclamation marked tracks.
One step, no fuss, no muss.
Post back if you have a different problem that the solution above does not address.

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