How do I access access library from ext. hard drive and send to icloud.

The library on the hard drive exceeds what's available on my mac. Also, cannot update to the most recent itunes because my desk top is so old. Also, itunes does not recognize anything I have purchase prior to 2011. I assume there is a way to access the library, but I'm unsure how to do it.

If you haven't yet - go into lightroom - select library - on the left you will see "folders" click the + sign and find the folder on your computer. Lightroom will not by default add folders that do not have images in them. Hope that helps... if you're already doing that try to describe your problem in more detail

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The best way to do this is to attach your eHD, then in your iTunes Preferences "Change Location" of your iTunes Music folder to the eHD; from then on all music you add will go to the eHD but what's on your HD will stay there, and iTunes will keep track of what is where.
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I just posted this to another topic, but it applies here as well. Hopefully there's no prohibition on cross-posting on this board, my apologies to all if there is:
"I haven't read the whole thread, so someone could have already mentioned this, but I did the same thing, move my music library to an external drive. The Help articles are helpful, but only up to a point. When that didn't work, I called up AppleCare support up, and they took me through all the standard steps, and got stumped at the same point I did. Finally she suggested trying something, and that ended up doing the trick. So here in brief is what you do:
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How do I import my library from an external drive to my Itunes on my computer quickly? When I pull up ITunes, I only show Add File to Library and so I would have to manually add each file one by one, isn't there a faster way? In the old Itunes there used to be Import Library?

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