HT203167 why do i keep losing songs?

I keep getting exclamation points next to some songs.......why is that? I've had this happen in the past and thought I fixed it but it keeps reappearing. I am running out of space or what? It's freaking annoying cause you think you have a song sync to your phone till you go looking for it and realize it's not. Can anyone out there help me with this?

I don't know for certain, but possible causes are that you or some third party tool has moved, renamed or deleted the file, or that the drive it lives on has had a change of drive letter. It is also possible that iTunes has changed from expecting the files to be in the pre-iTunes 9 layout to post-iTunes 9 layout,or vice-versa, and so is looking in slightly the wrong place.
Select a track with an exclamation mark, use Ctrl-I to get info, then cancel when asked to try to locate the track. Look on the summary tab for the location that iTunes thinks the file should be. Now take a look around your hard drive(s). Hopefully you can locate the track in question. If a section of your library has simply been moved, or a drive letter has changed, it should be possible to reverse the actions.
Alternatively, as long as you can find a location holding the missing files, then you should be able to use my FindTracks script to reconnect them to iTunes .
If you backup routinely then you would be able to spot such issues the moment they arise, restore the backup copies and hopefully determine the cause.
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