Multiple duplicates, but erasing deletes the only original file?

HELP? i keep getting multiple duplicates, if i delete any of the duplicates, the original song is deleted in the itunes folder.
so i am left with a whole bunch of duplicates but no original file. searched everywhere but cant find my music .
i have now lost 200gb of my 1.5tb 25 year music collection. years of work? what am i doing wrong?
this is not just cd i can buy again but music i and friends have made

Command+A selects all items. Command+delete deletes the items, so I suspect it would delete all the files in that window, in other words I don't think it is what you want to do.
Looking at this another way, there isn't any easy shortcut to deleting duplicates from iTunes. The best way is to stay on top of duplicates as they are created and change how you do thing in iTunes so you do not create many duplicates. Oh, there are scripts that will do this, but some things iTunes may say are duplicates are not. I have one album where there are two tracks with the exact same name and artist but one version is unplugged. iTunes just tells me they are duplicates.
How to find and remove duplicate items in your iTunes library - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2905
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/itinfo/dupin.php (commercial)
Posts by turingtest2 about different types of duplicates and techniques- https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3555601 and https://discussions.apple.com/message/16042406 (Note: The DeDuper script is for Windows)

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