ITunes videos gone missing

I recently bought a couple of music videos from iTunes. Now when I go to watch them on my Powerbook, via iTunes, I get an error message saying 'the music video could not be used because the original file could not be found. do you want to locate it?'. On the other hand I CAN view it on my iPod (new classic).
Can anyone help me solve this conundrum?
Thanks
Julie

Hi juliet83,
First read [this article|http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301749] to try finding your missing videos.
If this doesn't help you, then you'll need to transfer them from the iPod to your iTunes library. Read [this post|http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=6923237#6923237] from me or [this|http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6893383&#6893383] from Zevoneer.
Hope this helps!

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