Uploaded entire music library from external hard driveto new iTunes account.  Only purchased music will play.  When I try to play other files, iTunes says it can't be used because original file can't be located and an exclamation point appears before song

Please help

You may be getting that error message if the setting 'Copy files to iTunes music folder when adding to library' is not turned on (in Preferences>Advanced>General).
To sort all your songs out in one batch, my suggestion would be to remove all your songs from your iTunes library and re-import them all. However, as someone who also has a 5,000-song collection, I wouldn't want any of your songs to be deleted, so either do a backup or write-protect your iTunes music folder.

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