Itunes "cant find song"

If I change the location of a song or group of songs in my Explorer (I often have to reorganize my music folder) the itunes will not play it, and give me the message that "...the original file could not be found. Would you like to locate it?" I end up having to find every song again every time I change it's folder in Explorer. Is there any way to fix this.

hMm me too!!! After iTunes updates my library, most of my songs have the error icon behind it. But, the songs are still in the same folder. And, my songs aren't bought from iTunes store.

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