Why do I have a ton of missing file (exclamation point) icons in iTunes, when the songs aren't actually missing?

I noticed lots of songs in my desktop iTunes and Apple Music weren't displaying in the iOS Remote App. I realized each song that Remote isn't showing also has the exclamation point icon next to the song track number. But these songs aren't really missing. When I click the song in iTunes for Mac, the song plays just fine and the exclamation point goes away. I guess I could do this for the thousands of songs that have this issue. But I'd rather click a "Find All Missing Songs" or "Reconnect Library" option, or something like that. Help?

iMac (27-inch, Late 2012), OS X Yosemite (10.10.4)

Posted on Mar 4, 2018 8:26 AM

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Mar 4, 2018 9:35 AM in response to brad5am

I have never ever seen the Remote app on anything so I am unfamiliar with those aspects, but seeing that false broken link behavior is typical of a situation where the iTunes library is kept on one drive and media on another and you start iTunes before the external drive is fully mounted. Are you using a NAS (if you are then when posting questions here it would help to state that at the start).

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Why do I have a ton of missing file (exclamation point) icons in iTunes, when the songs aren't actually missing?

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