Help...How to I get files from my external hard drive into my Library!

I ran out of space on my PC's hard drive, so I bought an external drive, and copied everything over there. I deleted the files on my PC's hard drive, and changed the setting in iTunes to look for files on the external drive. The trouble is, there are no files in my library now. If I search for an individual song and double click on it, it starts to play, and shows up in my iTunes library.
Is there a quick way to get all the songs into my library?
Many thanks,

I advised to uncheck the option to copy files to iTunes Music Folder when adding to library simply because it creates 2 copies of a given file.
If you have your files on the external drive, and you uncheck that option, and then add the files into the library, no copies are going to be made, so you don't want to delete anything.
If you want to see if the files are on your external, I'd suggest looking at it through Windows Explorer. Just open up My Computer and open up the drive icon representing your external. If you see the files on there, and they're on your internal as well, you can go ahead and delete them from whichever volume you don't want them stored on.
If the files are on your local drive and you want to move them to the external, you can do this with iTunes. Click Edit > Preferences, click the Advanced tab, click the General tab beneath it. Set the iTunes Music folder location to your external drive (where you want the files to end up). Make sure that the option to copy files IS CHECKED. Then, click OK. Then, from the Advanced menu, click on Consolidate Library. This will basically create a copy of every file in your library in the destination specified as your iTunes Music folder location.
Sorry if all this adds to the confusion. Sometimes it's a little difficult to know what options affect what actions within iTunes. Post back if you have any other questions and I'll do my best to help you out.
CG

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