HT1364 Help, I dragged my entire Itunes library to my D Drive but now cannot access anything, not in C or D Drive, can I restore?

oh dear - i ha "lost" my entite I Tunes library - apps and music!!! i dragged the whole file from C drive to D Drive as memory was choked on C, seemed to transfer as took ages and auto recycled due to file size. Thought all was well but now cannot locate in D Drive -no itunes and itunes in C is empty!! HELP!!! how to heck do I restore or get my stuff back from Apple?

No. 1: Do you still have the same disk that was in your D:/ Drive inserted?
No. 2: You're in luck. Just open iTunes, click on the "Purchases" sidebar item, and it should show a complete list of everything you've bought, and you can download it all again from there. You might also want to check the "Downloads" menu item as well.

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