Music keeps getting moved to the wrong folder

I use my external hard drive (E:) as my iTunes folder and most of the time it works just swimmingly. However, for some reason, it seems almost randomly the music will get moved to the iTunes music folder on my C drive.
The music is still indexed, but I don't want it taking up space on my C drive. Is there a way to stop this from happening? I am getting quite tired of moving my music back to it's original location.

Make sure that your external drive is up and running when launching iTunes: If iTunes can't access your ext. drive on startup, it will switch back to C:

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