ITunes lost originals to songs and movies

I had to restore my iPhone to the original settings to get a GPS update to work. Then when I tried to sync my iPhone none of my songs or movies loaded. When I looked in iTunes all the songs and movies were listed in their proper windows but when I tried to activate them from the iTunes windows received an error message that the originals could not be found.
Did numerous searches and all the originals were missing from my hard drive.
Really weird!
Anyone have any idea what happened so I won't make that mistake again?

you could give this a try:
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)."
JGG

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