Missing links question

While I'm here, a second question. Is there any way to have iTunes scan and mark all of the songs where the links are missing? I have a lot of those where I've moved or burned and deleted or just deleted or lost the original file. I'd love to just clean them all out once and for all. Thanks Doug PC / SP / Current iTunes

Yeah, you can run a script to remove all the dead tracks (the ones with an exclamation mark).
Here's one script that I wrote:
http://mysite.verizon.net/teridon/itunesscripts/itunesremovenotfound.vbs
(Right-click and save link, then double-click to run the script).
You can also run a program like this one:
http://code.google.com/p/itsfv/

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