3rd Party Apple Loops folder hierarchy

I had a number of Apple Loop libraries saved at ~/Library/Audio/Apple Loops. When my internal MacBook Pro hard drive got full I moved the Apple Loops folder to an external hard drive. I then reindexed these loops by dragging the apple loops folders from their new home on my external drive (eg Jason'S External/Apple Loops/Brazilian Beats) to the Loop Browser in Logic Pro 8.
Now my loop browser just shows me the name of the whole sample library (eg Brazilian Beats) but no longer breaks them down in to the useful sub folders the library was previously organised in to when it sat on my internal drive (eg Brazilian Beats>Samba>130bpm)...it now just shows the Brazilian Beats folder in the Loop Browser View drop-down) and then I have to search through the 3000 loops in the Brazilian Beats library to find a specific loop I know falls in Brazilian Beats>Samba>130bpm
Is this because my loops have to be in my library folders for them to display this sub folder feature or are the loop libraries on my external drive not properly indexed yet and if so how do I rectify this please?

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