Repeating Song Files

I have repeats of files (Two songs as in the same song, twice in my library. Does Itunes have a way to remove these repeating files?

There called Duplicates in iTunes. Select "Main Library" in the source list on the left of iTUnes, then goto Edit>Show Duplicate Songs. You have to either manually remove the duplicate(s) or search the Net for some PC script.
If you go looking for scripts be carefull, Alot of scritps are written for the Mac and not the PC

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Apple Support:
I have Itunes on an external drive. I put the (song) files on another external drive for storage becasue the itunes drive is full.
After copying the files, I tried to delete the songs. I had the option to keep the files or send them to the trash.
I selected the send to trash option, then went to the Finder to empty the trash.
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Anohter issue:
I tried the same thing earlier this morning. I may need to reinstall the songs on Itunes (once I get itunes to delete the files from the hard drive).
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Camoracer,
You are right. Pardon me. The majority of the music that I was trying to delete off my external hard drive was in a separate folder (on the external hard drive), not in the directory specified in my iTunes preference settings.
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I run iTunes off my laptop and stored most of my songs on an external drive. My external drive went bad, so I copied the songs off my external drive onto the laptop hard drive in a separate folder.
Now when I run iTunes and open a playlist, there are exclamations next to all the songs that used to be on the external drive but are now on the laptop drive.
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