I just did a recommended updated on my mac Mini and it has deleted my entire media library! Please Help!!!

I received the update notice from system preferences, so I followed the usual drill, accepting recommended update/downloads and restarting - one of those being an iTunes update.
Once the mini was restarted I went to my iTunes movie library to watch a movie and discovered that ALL movies (digital downloads and iTunes purchases) as well as my entire music library had been deleted. This has NEVER happened with previous updates.
How can I restore/find my files? They do not seem to be in the user location and I tried changing where iTunes looks for the music and movie files but that didn't work.
I'm so frustrated, there were over 11,000 music files and over 30 movies that seem to have been deleted.
Any help or suggestions to find the missing files is much appreciated!!!

I'd fisrt go to spotlight and search for .m4a and/or .mp3 files.

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