ITunes does not sync with my previous library

Hi there, I hope someone could help me out here.
I have just recently formatted/re-installed Mac OS Maverick on my MBP, and iTunes (v 11.3) was also updated.
I have moved my previous library and re-directed iTunes (iTune -> Preferences -> Advanced) to the library. However, iTunes does not recognize the library anymore and does not appear in it. Only my iPhone 5 has the records of playlists and songs. For now, when I want to sync the music with my iPhone in iTunes, iTunes will ask to ERASE the entire music library in the iPhone, which I do not want. How can I resolve this thing?
Thank you very much for any help here. Appreciate it.
nickeldoor

You don't say what exactly you moved. You don't tell iTunes to use a previous library with preferences, you do it by holding down the option/alt key while starting iTunes and guiding it to the iTunes Library.itl file in the iTunes folder you want to use. A library is everything in the iTunes folder. Hopefully you copied the entire folder and not just the media files or else you will have to rebuild the library structure from scratch (and erase the phone).

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