Missing iTunes files
suddenly, my iTunes library can't locate approximately 270 song files. They are there. In the same place I imported them to initially. Same location. They have not moved. And in my iTunes preferences, my library location has not changed from where it's been for several years. Yet, iTunes tells me the files are missing. I click on locate...choose the library location where I ALWAYS have imported my files...find the very file iTunes suddenly can't locate...and click "open". Then the file plays fine. Why? What on earth is Apple's problem? And the prompt asks if I'd like to use that location to locate the other 268 or 9 missing songs and I click yes, since several songs on the same album "can't be located." When I do, it says none of the missing files can be located. I then click on a song FROM THE SAME LOCATION...and choose "Locate"...navigate to the very same folder...and click "open." Then the song plays fine.
SERIOUSLY??? I have to do this 268 more time...MANUALLY??? You haven't figured this out yet?
There has GOT to be a faster way to do this. Of course, if you haven't fixed this bug...maybe I'm expecting too much...
Edit: When I click "Get Info" for a missing song and go to "File", this is what I see. What file location is that? It's not my trash, I checked the contents already. That's a very bizarre file location. What gives with iTunes purging music I've purchased? I see "date modified" is 2/2/22. I assume that's the date it was banished to this mystery location? WTF?
Mac mini