ITunes isn't saving songs to my external hard drive like I want.

Hello,
This might be a simple problem.
I have my iTunes set-up to download directly to my external hard-drive. However, when I inport a CD....it's not showing-up in my external hard-drive?! Since I am assuming the songs are being stored somewhere, I would liek to know how to get them on my external hard-drive and then make sure they're actually NOT on my PC.
Many thanks for anyone that can help this not-so-tech-savy individual though this!
THANKS!

If you go to Edit>>Preferences>>Advanced, you will see the location of the iTunes Media folder. The default location is My Music\iTunes.
This is where iTunes will store imported CD and purchases from the iTunes store.
You can change the location to your external drive, but this only produces an effect in the future. Anything already added, stays where it is.
If you want to move stuff, you have to consolidate your library. File>>Library>>organise.
But be aware that this copies things into the iTunes Media folder,leaving the original intact.
If you use an external drive you must have it working when you start iTunes or iTunes will go back to the default location for the iTunes media and then you will have to reset preferences again.

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