Unable to play (or even locate) songs that I imported from my old computer

I moved all of my music from my previous computer to my new computer using my iPod to transfer them and following all of the steps on the support page. While I can "see" all of the music in the playlist, none of the music I moved will play. I continually get the following message when I click on any of the song titles: "The song 'xxxxxxxx' could not be used because the original file could not be found. Would you like to locate it?". I can see the iTunes folder in my "Music" folder, but the songs will not play. In fact, all of the songs I moved over have an "exclamation point " in the furthest left column. Any ideas? This is sooooooo frustrating!

Have you tried spotlight?  Have you looked in you home folder?  Can you find your 'Music Folder'?
Ciao.
If you cannot find it, down load OmniDiskSweeper (free) from the Internet and open it.  You might be able to locate it with this application.
Message was edited by: OGELTHORPE

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