[smv1110]

I had to copy my music to another drive to free up some space on the drive it was on. I just went into iTunes and tried to click on a song and it said the original file couldn't be found...Do you want to locate it? The songs in question have a little exclamation point in front of them. I hope copying them back to the original drive works. Anyone ever seen this?

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[richwig83]

Yes, this is because you've moved the file from the location that itunes is looking at. If you do as you say and put the file/folder back to its original place it should work again.

You should try and select the " Copy files to iTunes folder when adding music" option in advanced preferences!!! And the consolidate library function is also useful to ensure this doesn't happen

My itunes library is on an external drive, if i forget to turn it on and try playing a tune i get "!" next to the tunes too!!

Did u sort it out??

[analogika]

ipodGuru, that's some impressive copy-and-pasting there.

It's also COMPLETELY off-topic.

[iDaver]

I'm having the same problem, only I haven't moved my files anywhere. I just noticed the problem today (not having used iTunes for a while) and saw a topic at Apple support from someone who thinks the problem is related to the 7.02 update, which I performed several days ago.

I know this is not the same as the smv1110's problem, but similar. Funny thing is, while iTunes has "forgotten" where most of my music is, it still knows where all of the protected AACs purchased at iTunes are and it knows where songs imported from CDs in the past six months or so are. Anything older than that has the dreaded exclamation mark next to it. The files are still there, in the iTunes music folder; just not recognized by iTunes. I'd like some way to rebuild the library without losing all of my history (date added, play count, etc.) but it looks like I'm going to have to start over with a new library.

Any suggestions?

[Eriamjh]

iTunes has lost music on my computer, too, and I have never moved anything.