Help with my Library and songs please!

Ok, I tried to use my Flash Drive to save my music for if my PC ever crashed. Although when I improted my music to my Flash Drive it won't let me play my music on my PC itunes library anymore. When I click on a song to play.. it says something along the lines of this: "We cannot locate this file for use, would you like to relocate it?".
I have no idea what to do.
Thanks in advance!

Can anyone help?

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Right now, I simply plug in my camera and import into the Pictures folder on the laptop HD
In Aperture, do you have a Managed or Referenced Library?
Is it possible that they're being imported into the iPhoto library
Not unless you have set up some form of Folder Actions - and you would know if you have. But a simple test: do your import actions as normal and then open iPhoto. Are the newest additions there?
would love to store the images> and videos on the external drive,
This is easy.
and store a smaller copy for viewing on the laptop itself without taking up a bunch of room.
No need for a smaller copy. You can still view in Aperture without the disk connected.
and still make edits? Or only make edits to the files while connect
You can only edit the files with the disk connected.
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1) I have music on both my internal laptop drive and external drives.
2) I want to have two libraries, one for the internal drive featuring all the music on my internal drive (and possibly some stuff on the external since that's how it currently is), and the other which is ALL my music from all my drives.
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Message was edited by: ehmjay

As long as you don't have an existing library that is synced with a device or holds oodles of carefully crafted playlists, ratings etc. then...
Hold down shift as you start iTunes. You should get an option to choose or create a library. Click create, browse to root of the external drive and click save so that your library is say X:\iTunes where X: is the letter of your external drive. All new content downloaded to the library will stay on the external drive.
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Right now, I simply plug in my camera and import into the Pictures folder on the laptop HD
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