Where did the songs in my Itunes library go?

I had songs in my itunes library that I have brought over from my pc. In other words, these are not songs purchased in the itunes store.
Anyway, I connected my wifes Ipod to my mac to try and add the song on my mac to her ipod. Not sure what I did but somewhere I selected add manually, then dragged and dropped the songs in the mac library to the ipod symbol.
Some songs trasferred but I got a message that over 100 songs could not be located because they were not in there original location or something to that effect.
When I finished the transfer and went back to the mac list, those 100 songs were gone. They are not in trash. They are not in the ipod. They are not in the mac i tunes library. Just gone. I've done searches using Finder but no luck. Gone.
No I don't have time capsule set up. Could never get that to find set up properly...
Any suggestions?

one last thing: I'm also getting this problem here too:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5324398?start=15&tstart=0

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Hello there, Paso Kid.
The following Knowledge Base articles provide some assistance with locating content in your iTunes Library:
iTunes: Finding lost media and downloads
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1408
and
Where are my iTunes files located?
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1391
If you have already reviewed those steps and still cannot find the songs you purchased from iTunes, delete the songs and download them again using the information in this article:
iTunes 11 for Windows: Download previous purchases from the iTunes Store
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12491
Thanks for reaching out to Apple Support Communities.
Cheers,
Pedro.

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Where did the songs in my Itunes library go?

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