ITunes doesn't import all files from xml library

Hi, yesterday I did some changes on mi library. I have 3.000 music files and i didn't want to change the files path manually, so I edited the .xml file, damaget .itl and tried to reimport. It worked, but iTunes didnť import all of my songs, just few of them (about 82) and I don't know how.
The problem is, that I have backup, backup of original iTunes library, but files are not in "old locations", i moved them to new folder and deleted the old - when I tried to fetch missing files in iTunes, it didn't find anything and i had to search it manually.
Can someone help me? Thanks!

Restore your pre-damaged .itl file.
Select an album's worth of tracks.
Run my script FindTracks and point it at the new media folder.
If it works, select the whole library and repair the rest.
If it doesn't work explain further about what you've reorganized.
tt2

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