File Not found, but music is on iPod

OK, this is strange. I just added some more music to my iPod. But it said that 27 songs hadn't been added. But, they ARE on my iPod, and in my iTunes library and the preferences is pointing in the right direction for the library of all my music. So why do I keep getting file not found?

I think you misunderstood the problem. Music is on my computer in my iTunes folder under the correct file name and when i try to play the file using itunes there is an error message 'original file cannot be found, would you like to locate it?' If you locate the file where it is supposed to be, it will play the song. It seems to just be losing information about where files are stored on my computer randomly. Could this be because my files are stored on an external hdd?

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# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
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insmod part_gpt
insmod part_msdos
if [ -s $prefix/grubenv ]; then
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fi
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if [ x"${feature_menuentry_id}" = xy ]; then
menuentry_id_option="--id"
else
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fi
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fi
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Last edited by retzu (2012-04-16 14:16:02)

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ast.mo da.mo fi.mo hu.mo it.mo nl.mo ru.mo uk.mo zh_CN.mo
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Last edited by David Batson (2012-05-02 20:03:41)

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