Itunes is randomly deleting my music files

Im having an issue with itunes, i have my music stored in several locations and wanted to consolidate my library, so i choose an external drive and started exporting all my music from my itunes library to my external drive by changing the library location and making itunes consolidate my files. However its seems to only copy albums and all my eps and singles which i have spend years ripping from all my vinyl, copies over then deletes from the external drive while iTunes copies it! anyone had this issue? its totally frustrating. how can itunes delete my music? it may not be downloaded but its totally genuine and mine to with as i wish. I don't really want to leave my music on my mac as it just takes up to much space.
I have tried copying it over to the external drive, (mac formatted) but again when i load the files in to itunes, it again it selectively deletes all my singles and eps and some selected albums as well???? it wouldn't be so bad if they were in the itunes store but there not!
Can any help me?

I don't think that is the solution. If you check back, this is a perennial issue that does not have a solution. So far.
In synching up files there will be various conflicts and having another text based list to compare before and after results of the sync might have some ability to determine what was deleted.
Synching contacts is just as prone to random damage

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