Had to move files to external drive: now EXSP24 doesnt list them

The EXSP24 currently shows my GB World Jampack files only, I had a different list (with many submenus) before installing this....in order to install that pack I had to clear out room for it (dumb to force users to only install on the boot up drive !! arg)- thereby necessitating moving alot of media files around....
is it possible to repoint the EXSP24 to any/all offloaded .aiff files ? Its not clear from its pop up menu if this might be done. My MBP drive is full, so I had to move all media elsewhere. I had thought I even moved the Jampack World files offline too

I can confirm - all media files have been moved off my MBP hard drive, to an external FW drive. Somehow, when I launch Logic - the app still can play the EXSP files (GB World Jam Pack).
Not sure how to get it to recognize newly added files... or at least I would like to go back to the default install.

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