Missing/Deleted Songs

So I had a very large mass of songs on my computer that i've slowly accumulated over the years, and I recently added them all to itunes.
I changed an option within Itunes to make a copy of all of my songs in my itunes folder, thinking that i'd not have two copies, I might as well delete the old files folder. This left me with ONLY the song files that were copied into my itunes folder.
I accidentally sent my entire Itunes fodler to the recycle bin, and I realized this before emptying the recycle bin. I "restored" all the files from the recycle bin, and now all the song files are deleted and still missing.
There is nothing in the recycle bin after restoring, and there's still nothing. Did the action of me sending it to the recycle bin in the first place automaticall delete all my song files from my computer?

Hmm i had this when i first started getting my claws in itunes...
I know there is a duplicate folder, usually in my music as well as in itunes folder found inside my music folder.
To find your itunes library folder (where itunes is pulling your music from) go to Edit/Preferences/Advanced tab and check out the path in the "Itunes music locatin folder". Then go there directly and see if your songs are there. (you may just have to add them to your itunes)
If not, go to your search option and type in the name of a song and see where it pops up on your hard drive. Copy the path down (if you cant double click on the search result) and import the songs into itunes.
Good luck. I remember how i felt when i lost toooons of songs!

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