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I lost my external hard drive that held my iTunes folder. I had a backup on my drobo from 30 days ago so I copied this to a new external drive in a new "Music" folder.
This iTunes backup had not yet been consolidated and organized into a "iTunes Media' folder yet - that was what I had just lost with all of my updates and cleanup (which worked well - then). I figured I would have to do it all again.
When I opened up iTunes with the Option key and pointed it to the new Music/iTunes folder, it came up with all the movies, tv shows, podcasts, books, apps, songlists and songs listed but everyone of them had next to the file the "!" (Can not find file, do you want to locate?). I tried locating a dozen or so but iTunes would never relocate larger numbers on its own.
I tried consoldiating and re-organizing these files but I am always left with thousands and thousands of unreferenced files - even though this was the same folder structure and iTune Library and Music Library.xmls that were working a month ago on the old drive.
Any suggestions as to how to get this recent iTunes folder to "see" all the same files in this new location?
Thanks for any help,
Pheel
OSX 10.6.8
iTune 10.4

try this script:
iTunes Track CPR v1.3
This script attempts to locate the files of so-called "dead tracks"--iTunes tracks designated with (!)--that you assume are not actually missing but are still located in the iTunes Music folder in their "iTunes File Order" (Music -> Artist -> Album -> file.xxx)."

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