Copying from multiple drives...

Hi everybody,
I had my ITunes library consolidated over 3 separate drives and everything was working fine... I copied all my files from the Finder into 1 new drive (1 terabytes). I haven't open ITunes yet. What should be my next step now? Should I consolidate or create a new .xml file?
I hope my question is clear.
Thanx

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