My itunes library! help me please as soon as possible

this is my problem my one day i clicked on itunes , wanted to play some music when i clicked on a song a exclamation mark on the song came up sayin if i want to locate my song when i tried a next song the same thing happened again so all itunes is saying that all of my songs needs to be located but they are on my harddrive and in my itunes folder they are not lost , the playlist and everything is there but they are not playing because of the same problem so can you please help find a solution for this problem without having to start a new itunes library , making new playists and having to delete all of my playlists and the whole library please .thank you .

Sards,
Sorry to hear that. In order to see the contents of your iPod first you will have to enable view hidden files on your computer. I don't have XP any longer but you should be able to google how to do this in XP. Then connect your iPod to your computer. Do not select to replace your library. But it should show your iPod under my computer. With the ability to see your hidden files you should be able to see your iPod. Look for the folder iPod control(that's how it's listed in Vista) then look for the folder music. in your music folder will be all your music. It will have funny labels (F00, F01) and so forth. Copy that music into iTunes or your music folder. It will label some of the songs with their proper info, but some you will have to re-tag. It is time consuming but you can retrieve your music. Hope this helps.
Bobby

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