Having trouble transferring my complete library onto my new computer

hello. i am a fairly new mac convert and am far from what you would call a techy! i have a large collection of music from my personal cds and purchases etc. i was able to transfer all my music from my pc to my new mac mini last year without a problem. a friend gave me a very extensive collection of music on an ext hard drive and apple support showed me how to include and access all that music. it is too large of a collection to transfer into my computer. not enough space to hold it. i simply accessed it via preferences, advanced, etc etc and it updated my library w all the music in the drive. if the drive is unplugged the music is inaccessible but still listed in the library. perfect. so here is the problem.
i used the same hard drive and transferred my pics and itunes music onto t for transfer to the macbook. i transferred the music from the actual itunes folder which only contains my stuff not the hard drive stuff. in addition, the hd contains separate folders with the new music archive that was given to me. i transferred in my stuff.....no problem. i changed the source to find the music archive on the hd and it says please wait while we update library but nothing gets updated. none of the new music comes up in the library. it wont let me drag it into my itunes but if i click on the file in the hd it transfers it over and plays in itunes. i cant go song by song bc there r probably 50000 in there. all i want to be able to do is keep the music in the hd and play via itunes while only keeping my stuff on the actual hd of the computer. i should be able to have the complete library though and i should be able to transfer in specific songs or albums off the hd if i so desired. please help. getting ready to lose it!!!!

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