How to make i-tunes find moved music files on my laptop

I organized my music files and itunes does not see them how to make i-tunes find them and add them again

When you move files around in Windows Explorer, or rename them, itunes loses the file path to them.
You can drag the new folder back into the itunes window. You don't need to add them back one-by-one, in other words. This will give you duplicates, probably - the old ones will have ! next to them. You can sort your library by Date Added and get rid of the old ones.

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