ITunes Media on Time Capsule Deleted, Need to Restore

I need help. I store my iTunes Media library on my Time Capsule, and connect to it on my MacBook Air. I was trying to consolidate my files, and I moved about half of my media files to the trash on my Air. Now half of my iTunes library is gone and I'm getting an error when opening iTunes. I now know the mistake I made, and I need to recover the deleted files. However, none of the deleted files are in my Trash for me to "put back." I want to puke. Any help or advice you could offer would really, really be appreciated.

Google finds many articles on how to move your iTunes to an external hard drive.
Here's the first hit in the list:
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/moving-your-itunes-library-to -a-new-hard-drive/
Fairly long article but it does seem to cover nearly everything.
Regards,
Colin R.

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Google finds many articles on how to move your iTunes to an external hard drive.
Here's the first hit in the list:
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/moving-your-itunes-library-to -a-new-hard-drive/
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Regards,
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Would anyone know if I can I move my iTunes library onto Time Capsule and share it across my devices (similar to a NAS drive)?
This would give me some hard drive space on my iMac and more importantly mean my iTunes library is available all the time. Although I have Home sharing I need my iMac on and if not I use iTunes on iCloud I always seem to be downloading the tracks I need.
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Processor 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
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OSX Mavericks
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iPad
iPod Touch
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iTunes 11.1.5 (5)
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