ITunes will not acknowledge some songs in my library

Hi
Recently transferred entire library from an old computer to new one, after which several albums and individual songs could not be located. Many of these I found in the itunes folder where itunes had filed them (by artist etc) but it was not picking them up. So I went through and found them all as prompted when attempting to play songs with an exclamation mark next to them, I also noticed it has dropped whole albums and random songs from the library for no reason, and does not display these at all. Consolidating does not seem to help itunes recognise and display them.
How can I get itunes to have a proper look in the library and display all my music??
cheers
Dan

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