ITunes is empty, how can I find my music?

Hi,
I recently moved all my music from the iTunes Music folder onto an external storage device and then deleted it from the folder on my computer, thinking I would still be able to play it. When I opened iTunes again it was blank, and I didn't want to manually find each and every song, so I put all the music back on my computer in the original folder. iTunes, however, is still empty when I open it. Is there a way to import or find all of the music at once, so that iTunes has it all when I open it again--rather than having to open each song individually from the iTunes Music folder?
(I have an iPod with all the music on it as well, if that helps)
Thanks,
Steve

I found an answer: in the File menu you can select Import Folder, and then select the new iTunes Music folder and it should bring in everything.
I hope this is helpful if anyone else out there has the same problem as me!

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