Re-linking songs to moved files

Because my laptop was running out of space I had to move many of my music files to an external drive. Obviously I can't play those files which featured in my iTunes playlists unless I reconnect them.
Is there any automatic way that iTunes can relocate these files or do I have to go through each song separately and create the link?
There are several hundred files involved so it would be a painstaking job if I had to do it one by one.

In the meantime, and in answer to your question, the files I have moved are tracks I ripped from my own CDs so they were not in the usual iTunes folder.
What did you rip them with? How are they laid out?
If iTunes rips a music file it ends up at:
*<Path to iTunes Media Folder>\<Music>\<Artist>\<Album>\## <Name>.<ext>*
Where there are specific limits on the length of file & folder names and all characters that are not allowing filenames are replaced with the underscore.
I have a script that can effetively "guess" where iTunes would normally put things and therefore work out where they would be if you had changed anything in the upper levels of the path, *<Path to iTunes Media Folder>\<Music>* - e.g. by moving a bunch of files to a different drive.
Personally I use different rules, full length file & folder names up to the OS limit, and different replacements, e.g. double quote becomes 2 single quotes, and have a slightly different version of the script which I now use to impose my rules without having to rename things by hand and then delete from iTunes & reimport
If you can define the rules that govern the path to missing files in terms of a common root path and then a futher breakdown by album, artist and track no. & name, plus any limits or character replacement rules then it should be possible to tweak the existing script to find your missing files.
Alternatively put them back where they used to be, turn off the iTunes option to "Keep the iTunes Media Folder Organised* or "Copy files when adding to the media library", then set a new base path for the library on your external, decline the offer to move your files there, then consolidate the files you do want to move out to the external before deleting the originals on C:.
Better yet after restoring the missing files so that iTunes can find them again, move your entire iTunes folder out to the external drive and then consolidate everything into the one location.
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