HT1364 My library just disappeared... Help!

I had about 17,000 songs in my iTunes library. A while back I added an external drive, then later another. I had some music on my C drive, some on one external drive, and more on a second external drive. Recently I had to empty my library and reload the music files. When I did I got 1 song on some titles, and frorm 2 to 4 copies of other titles.
I realized that my music was duplicated in different spots on my various drives, and I tried to consolidate them - and now ALL of my music appears to be gone! Please help!

Gone from the hard drives? Or just disconnected from the entries in iTunes? How did you go about consolidating?
tt2

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