Is there a way to force resolve media information for all songs?

I have multiple computers (2 Macs, 1 PC) where all of the songs for their iTunes' libraries are on my Time Capsule at home. However, when I take my Mac laptop to work and come back home, all of my songs in iTunes have the "exclamation point" indicating that their locations cannot be found (because I disconnected from my Time Capsule and then re-connected).

It's not a problem until I try to sync music to my iPod, where iTunes will only sync "unbroken" songs, so I end up with no music on my iPod.

I could "Get Info" for all tracks manually, one-by-one, but I'd really rather not. Also, I'd like to avoid operations that make me lose my metadata (like ratings).

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Ok after a LOT of searching I found my fix:

Hold Alt/Option while opening iTunes, it will bring up a dialog allowing you to choose the location of your iTunes library. Choose your existing library location, and voila... all songs are "magically" located. Ratings, play count etc. is saved. Phew!

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I don't quite get it... Every time you get back from work and want to sync your ipod, you do this process? – Cawas Nov 2 '10 at 1:31
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