Find files in itunes folder no longer indexed by library

Howdie y'all,
well in the past I used to say Keep Files when deleting files from itunes and not
move to recycle bin. I as well once by mistake restored a big chunk of recycle binned mp3s by accident.
Now my itunes music folder is roughly 6 gigs larger than my itunes library and has
a few hundreds files more than the library has songs. Seeing space on my laptop drive is getting low I would like to find the files that are in my itunes folder
(I let itunes organize my files and have copy to itunes folder enabled as well)
but no longer indexed by my itunes library.
Anyone know of a way to do this easily?
BTW I used a couple of duplicate finder programs and just half a dozen show up
so I am pretty confident that it's not a duplicates issue but a no longer indexed
issue!
any help really greatly appreciated!
remosito

looks like itunes is not readding as duplicates anymore in 7.5.
Just tried
your method with a couple of artist subfolders and itunes must have
realized they already existed in the library because nothing happened.
Once my current itms purchased AAC->MP3 conversion is done I will try
with the whole itunes folder!
it would be sooo nice if it would be so simple!
thanks again a ton
remosito
PS did itunes do duplicate stuff like that in earlier versions? I am pretty
sure I read about this problem. And I think I ran into it a couple of years
ago too when I misclicked the folder and picked the itunes folder instead of
my EAC ripping folder...
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