ITunes match and original files

i have a large music collection stored on my server. i've have carefully tagged an organized the music with album art.
will iTunes Match make any changes to my original files on the server that holds the master library or will my original files be left on the server unaltered?

Because you have deleted the files from the Finder and not in iTunes. Never, ever do this. Always delete tracks from within iTunes.
To be able to stream the song from the cloud delete the "track" from the iTunes library but not from the cloud.

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