I can't find music files even though I have purchased them through iTunes.

I have 274 music files that my itunes library can't locate. About 75 of those songs I have purchased through itunes store but still can't find and I can't re-download them but they show up in my "purchased" playlist with the i warning next to the song. Please help me determine what is wrong.

Hello Hmahon,
The Default Location for iTunes Music on your Mac OS X: /Users/username/Music/iTunes/
(Username is your Account Name on Mac) go to the location as mentioned above and see if you find your Music there, if No Music is available there then you can download the Purchased songs by Deleting the Dead Tracks from your iTunes Library and then Download it from your Account.
Download previous purchases on Mac or PC :
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2519

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