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My itunes does not connect to the underlying music files on my external drive. When I try to play, I get the dreaded exclamation point and "file not found" message for all. While I could click on each of the 10,000+ songs and reassociate the file to the location on my external drive manually, this would take forever. So I am looking for a way to reassociate all at once.
How it happened: I am not sure. But when I went to check the settings, it showed that somehow it had restored the default location of my files to the C drive, instead of the F drive (where my external drive is located with the files).
What I did: I changed the setting back to the F drive as the location of the music files. I thought that would do it, but unfortunately the error message still appears. I surveyed the support boards last night on Apple.com before I got too tired and couldn't find anything exactly on point.
My concern: While at last resort, I could back up all my files and then attempt to drop and drag my whole library into Itunes again, I will lose all my many playlists and the play count. This information is important to me. How can I preserve it?

There is a support article HERE that discusses moving your iTunes music folder (which is pretty much what you are trying to do). I''m not sure what will happen when you run the "consolidate library" since there is nothing actually there to move.
There's also some documentation in the iTunes help file under "Changing where your iTunes files are stored."
A last resort would be to edit the itunes library.xml file (after making a copy of it). I did this a while ago when I wanted to get rid of the drive letter designation and replace it with UNC (my music sits on a networked drive).
By the way, are you sure Windows is still reporting the drive as "F:"? If Windows has changed the letter, iTunes will revert the default location to My Music\iTunes until the drive is "fixed."
Good luck.
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