HELP! how do i remove old duplicate song files now iv moved my music?

I moved all my music from various folders into pretty much one place on my other hard drive to help clear some space. When i then re-added the folders to my library, I am left with apparently 2 versions of every song, but one version I assume is trying to access the file from the old location as it asks if i want to find the file manually becuase itunes can't find it. Is there any way at all to get rid of all of these files that don't contain songs, that doesn't involve clicking through every single song of my many thousands manually? It's making my life a misery even thikning about it.

Try ordering your songs by date added. The ones you just added will be at the top (or the bottom) - then you've just got to find where the newly added list stops and the old tracks begin and select all the tracks from then onwards. Sorted.
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