ITunes move to external hd fail, want to move it all back

Tried moving itunes to ext hard drive using Apple directions. Didn't work. iTunes library files are still in original location. Can I move everything that transfered to new hard drive, i.e. apps, back to original folder and be good to go? Thx!!

There is also a donate-ware app called iBackup : http://www.grapefruit.ch/iBackup/ which does incremental backups from the second backup onwards. I use it for everything except backing up the whole computer, for which I use Disk Utility "Restore".

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