How can I reload (refresh) my files into iTunes

Hello,
My iTunes folder and library is in its default location and I do not want to change my iTunes Library to an external harddrive. I do however have files on an external harddrive, which are also part of my media library in iTunes. Every now and again that drive is disconnected and slowly the covers start to disappear, if I reconnect, then iTunes regards these files as still missing, how can I "refresh" iTunes to check if the files are present, without having to delete the album and dragging the folder back into iTunes, then it work. If I play the file then it works too, but it would take to long to play each file individually to wake up iTunes.
Is there a way to refresh?
Thanks for any and all replies.

I've seen this topic discussed for many years now, and don't think there is a definite method.  iTunes only reads files if you really change something about them, otherwise it relies upon what it has in its library database about the track. Things to try:
Grab files in a playlist and start to drag to another playlist, but stop before you do so and just let them bounce back into place.
Play files (you've tried).  There's a Dougscript called Needledrop that will just play a file for a few seconds, but still a hassle if you have 10,000 tracks.
Try Dougscript MIA an see if it tickles the files enough to get them to update.
Find some junk field in your files (for example, "show" usually is empty for music files).  Get info on a series of files, change the field contents so it re-writes all the files. (Yeah, not ideal.)

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