Importing BACK photos

I'm just cleaned out my Mac. Before doing so, I exported my Lightroom photos (from within Lightroom) to an external hard drive.
Now I can't find clear instructions how to get them back into Lightroom.
I may or may not want them back on my internal hard drive but I definately want them back in Lightroom so I can keep working on them.
Does anyone have clear instrucitons how to do so?
Thank you

I think your terminology is incorrect.
If you had moved the images from within Lightroom, and this is possible, from one drive to another, then Lightroom would still know where they are.
However, what you are indicating is that Lightroom has lost track of them.
Now if the entire folder structure that the images are in is EXACTLY the same as it was when the images were located on the internal drive and the catalog is still intact then it should be easy to re-acquaint Lightroom with the new location of your images.
Go into the Library module, make sure the external drive is plugged in.
In the folders subpanel on the left all the folders will have question marks - these indicate that Lightroom no longer knows where the images are.
R-click on the question mark of the highest folder in the hierarchy adn then in the dialog box that opens naviagte to the location of the folder in question on the external drive and select.
Lightrooom should then be able to automatically relink all your iamges from there.
If the images are arranged differently on the external drive compared to their previous location then things may become a littel harder but the principle is the same.
For the future it is simplicity itself to move images and whole folders of images from within the Library module.
If you make Lightroom move the images rather than through the OS it makes things much easier.
If you actually did an export as catalog then this maneuver is a redundant one in the circumstances.
If there is more to the situation let us know.
Tony Jay

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