How do I move itunes content to another drive?

When I installed iTunes a while ago I accepted the defaults for file and contrent location, which is all on the C: drive. Now I need to make a bit of room on the drive, and I figured I move everything to the D: drive, which has enough free space (250 GB or so). I followed the Apple instructions (iTunes for Windows: Moving your iTunes Media folder - Apple Support), which for some reason end with iTunes10 (I am using iTunes 12 now), but that seems to not have worked. After following everything to the letter, I end up with just an empty folder ("Automatically add to iTunes"), and a 1 kb "plist" file in the new location.
I simply want to to move all the content from drive C: to Drive D:. How do I do that?

See also Make a split library portable.
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