Reconnecting songs moved to new harddrive

This has probably been asked many times, but I just got a new G5 and have moved all my music files to a new drive, while mirroring my iTunes from my old G4. Is there a way to en masse reconnect all my songs or do I have to do them each one at a time? Right now I've got a lot of songs with "!" next to them.
Help! And thanks.
Lee

Select as couple of the songs that have a then select Add to library and see what happens. This is assuming that files are on the new HD and in the correct place. I have iTunes organize my music. In this case I believe that you want to de-select copy files as the files already exist on your HD. Try this and if it works then you can select all you files and ADD.
MJ

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my old computer's mother board went out and it wont turn on now, so i was wondering if there is anyway to get my old itunes songs on the new computer with out having to buy them all over i havn't tryed anything yet so i was just wondering if anyone had any answers. thanks

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Be very careful when connecting an iPod full of music to an empty iTunes library.There is very real risk of permanently losing all the music.
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An alternative method is to connect the iPod whilst holding down the 'control+shift' keys and do not let them go until your iPod appears in iTunes.
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If you should click on "Erase and Sync" will erase all the content currently on your iPod and it will be replaced with the content of the iTunes library you just connected to.
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40% of my songs are from my CD collection that I had tranfered onto my PC way back when
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I'm totaly lost, because I want to transfer all my fotos to a new bigger harddrive.
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