ITunes match wont locate my music?

Ive had iTunes match for a while now. today i decided to tidy up my macbook and delete all my music (as its in the cloud). so when i done this i went into itunes and most of my music has a little locate icon next to it i tried to play it and i asked me to locate the file (which i deleted) so i pressed cancel and it started playing. (through the cloud i assume). my query is do i have to do this individually for each song? as i have thousands it would be very annoying and time consuming.
Any one have any ideas??
Thanks

Hi,
Yes, this was the wrong way to delete music. You should have deleted it from your iTunes library. Have you backed up your music files to an external drive? itunes is looking for the original file but is not finding it because the file is not there.
If you had deleted the tracks using iTunes, you would have received a pop up asking if you wanted to remove file from cloud or not, then another asking if you wish to keep file or move to trash.
What you need to do is now delete the track from iTunes library. You will get option to remove from cloud or not - you should leave this uncheck. As the file has already been delete, you will not get the next pop up. You will now see each track with a download cloud icon. You will now be able to stream or redownload if required.
By the way read this user tip Do not install MacKeeper
jim

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