Need help with library....Itunes not finding music !

I was going through folders on my hard drive, not using Itunes. I was looking at each of the album folders when I noticed that many artists had duplicate tracks, but the track name had a 1 added to the titles. I spent hours deleting thousands of duplicate songs. I have no idea how that happened, but it's finished & I have more drive space.
I then noticed a bunch of artists were for some reason, filed under compilations and not where they belonged. I copied the folders from compilations and put them in the proper artists folder. Now itunes isn't finding them, yet they are there on the drive.
Question: Is there anyway to have itunes go through my library completely to rebuild what it needs to find all of the moved songs? Thanks!

I'm sorry to say I have the same problem...sort of..I want to know if there is a fast way to transfer music from my music library to itunes...since I accidentally deleted the entire iT library...I wanted to post my question so I signed up here, but can you tell me WHERE in this place do I GO to POST??? how frustrating, I cant find where to post so I had to BUD in somewhere, and hope you have that answer..I'm sorry!!

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