How do I manage the transferral of iTunes content from a PC to a MacAir?

I've made a real mess of my iTunes libraries. Anyway . . .
I've had iTunes on my Asus desktop for more than three years, accumulating more than a thousand "song" titles (music of all kinds but also lectures, articles, sermons, readings), a couple of hundred movies and videos, a couple of hundred audio books, etc.
One problem is that I added to this latest iTunes library by adding files from here and there, hither and yon, not keeping all of the content actually in the iTunes subfolder. For example, there were a hundred or more lecture files that were in C:\Users\Guy\Downloads\Audio, hundreds of music files in a subfolder in C:\Temp\iPod Transfers.
When I began to suspect my Asus desktop was going to flake out on me, I copied the entire iTunes folder onto an external hard drive (I also backed up my documents, photos, scans, etc.)   And sure enough, three nights later, my Asus stopped working.
At first, I thought I'd buy a new desktop. But then I realized the MacBook Air 11 inch (1.3 Ghz, 4 MB RAM, 256 GB SSD, running OS X Yosemite) I bought last year, I actually use only once or twice every two to three weeks. I thought I could use the Air to replace my old Asus. Love the Air . . . with half the RAM of the Asus desktop and half the processor speed, the Air actually runs better than the Asus. However, it does have one BIG limitation:   a 256 GB SSD--largest I could get at the time--which is, of course, unexpandable. So I thought I would put all the BIG stuff--videos (including movies and TV shows), music, lectures, sermons, audiobooks--on an external hard drive and "point" iTunes on the MacAir to the folder. The current iTunes folder from the Asus desktop is about 100 GB all by itself.
I'm also finding that a lot of my audiobooks, lectures, sermons, and music were scattered about on my old Asus' hard drive and not in the iTunes folder itself (fortunately, while I was backing up other folders from my Asus, I also grabbed subfolders containing many of the music, lecture, audiobook, and video files).
I then did what the Apple bulletin said to do: started iTunes (12.0.1.26) with the Option key pressed; clicked on "Choose iTunes Library"; then found and chose the iTunes folder on my external hard drive. But I have "lost" much of the content. iTunes acts as if it doesn't exist, but the files are there on the external drive. I've even tried "adding files" and pointed to the files on the external drive. That doesn't seem to work.   iTunes on my MacAir seems to be using the iTunes.itl file to locate stuff, but the ITL file is from the old Asus, and it is "remembering" locations on my old (and now dead) Asus.
Can this problem be fixed?
And while we're at it . . .
In the past, I installed iTunes on two other computers (I won't try to explain the complicated rationale--why I was doing this), and I found iTunes folders from those computers on other portable drives. Is it possible to combine the contents of those iTunes media folders with the current iTunes folder on my MacAir?
If we can't deal with the latter problem, I'll not be bothered. I really MUST get the iTunes media from my Asus available to iTunes on my MacAir.

Hi Mr Magu,
I found this trying to do the same thing with Photoshop Layers in InDesign. This Adobe forum thread helped me: https://forums.adobe.com/message/5676211 with a bit of luck it helps you too (If you're still looking for an answer, I see this is fairly old thread).
Cheers
Dyl

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