Itunes and computer crashed! I lost my library! Where can I recover it?

I've got all of my songs on an external hard drive. My computer crashed, and after a restart, I started up itunes and it my library is gone. I looked in my itunes folder under user/music/itunes as well as user/library/itunes and user/documents and all the itunes library files are a year old! so all the orginizing and playlists in the last year are lost. anyone have any ideas on how to recover the most recent one? I appreciate any help... thanks

Did you try:
History menu > Restore Previous Session
I'm not sure that's still available if you've been browsing around again for a while.
''Actually, you used session restore, so that's the same thing.''
I'm not sure what blog platform you use, but I've noticed that WordPress auto-saves for me at regular intervals. If yours doesn't do that, you should definitely see about getting it set up.

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