Itunes won't reconise my songs in heir new loation

Help - I have moved all my songs to an external hard drive. I deleted the front end of them in itunes, then copied all files to my external drive. Then I picked up all files - dragged and dropped them in itunes so the front end songs were back in the library. They played fine when I did this yesterday, now when I try and play the songs, about half of them come up with a message saying 'this song culd not be used because the original file could not be located. Would you like to locate it?' I click 'yes' and it takes me to the song file located on the external drive and I can tell it to open this one. Why is it doing this - I am nervous to delete te songs on my computer before I can sort this out plus I would rather not go through every single song that says this and have to get the location individually! Thanks!

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