How do I move images from my external back to my computer?

Approx. 6-7 months ago I moved all my images to my external hard drive and worked from there.  I've since upgraded to a much larger internal hard drive and want to move them back.  I intially moved them via finder and Lightroom would say that the images are offline (obviously).  I'm not quite certain how to point Lightroom to the files.  What should I do?

2 prefered solutions:
Move the top level folder(s) from within LR (drag/drop each folder). This way, LR will keep track of the image locations
Move the top level folder(s) in finder, then open LR and chose "Find Missing Folder ..." on the top level folder(s) which show a "?".
Both options are best performed if you only have a few (best is one) top level folder with all your photos.
Beat Gossweiler
Switzerland

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