I have found my old ipod (which was linked to itunes on a computer gone years ago w/ an itunes act I dont remembe).  Currently the songs are visible and I can play them on itunes but I cannot sync them into my current library.  How do I sync both systems?

I have tried to: sync the songs, organize the library and consolidate files, copy and paste songs
Nothing has worked so far.
Also when my ipod comes up in my computer, the songs are not present there.
Any help is much appreciated.

This "original file cannot be found" thing happens if the file is no longer where iTunes expects to find it. 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 .
tt2

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