I obviously don't get iTunes, so I need some help.
I installed a newer, bigger hard drive on my computer. I had iTunes on my original, small hard drive. Before I added the new hard drive, I attempted to clean up my iTunes. There were a number of songs that were duplicates or had too high or too low a bit rate, so I highlighted all the unwanted songs (manually tediously, using the ctrl key), then R clicked, delete. Itunes asked me if I was sure, YES, did I want to send them to the recycle bin YES. I did not empty my recycle bin. After I set up the new hard drive, I planned on copying my CDs with the music I wanted at the bit rate I wanted.
I installed my new hard drive, and set it up as my primary drive. I installed iTunes on the new primary drive - I am going to use the old drive for back up. I copied the old iTunes music folder from my old hard drive and pasted My Documents so it is My Documents/Itunes Music. I did not want to put the iTunes folder withiin My Documents/My Music as I have a bunch of music in there that I don't want iTunes messing with. I then told iTunes on the new setup to look for the iTunes folder in My Documents/iTunes. I let it consolidate the new folder.
Now I have ! exclamation points on about 5% of my songs. If I use Windows Explorer to look inside the iTunes folder, those songs dont exist its not like the link to the song is broken and I need to re-establish it most of these are songs I deleted just before this change, but a bunch are songs I deleted a while ago. But the entries for those deleted songs have re-appeared in iTunes. In the past I have tried cleaning up iTunes -sometimes it seems to work, other times the deleted entries re-appear its obvious I dont get iTunes. So, before I go and try to manually highlight and delete these songs, I want to know how to do it so I stop wasting my effort. If I manually highlight these exclamation songs and then delete, will they come back again? Is there a 3rd party utility for Windows that can do this edit more efficiently and permanently? I dont think iTunes allows you to sort by ! exclamation point so you can easily do a block highlight and delete.
