Where is the file .iTunes Preferences.plist

Hello everybody !
Excuse my bad english, i'm french.
Due to many problems with my computer with Windows 7-64 , many resetllements both windows and itunes.
Now everything is ok after a lot of works. I have 70 000 songs - 379 Go but each time i restaure Itunes with my itunes Media from an external DD i'm obliged to import each playlist one by one because they are empty. (it's very long ........376 playlists )
To be clear they appear but are empty
Luckily i backup everything and regularly
I think it's a problem of .iTunes Preferences.plist but this file has totaly disappear ( as sentinel but it's not important )
I've got the last version 11.0.1.12 ( thank you APPLE for this version because the previous one was not correct for the big library in particular for the search, now is quite good, the duolicates are here and i don;t care of the cover flow because it has never worked well ( lack of fluidity, let's face it !! now it miss just the cover as before at the bottom of the left column -playlists)
Before i had this file, how can i create a new one before problems and obligation to reinstall each content of each playlist ?
Please help,me
Yuyg
(Paris )

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