ITunes not displayng songs after moving folder

I moved all my songs from my C drive to a new external drive, which is G. I created the folder iTunes\iTunes Music and copies all my music from where it was to the new location and then deleted it from the C. I confirmed that all my music is there at the new location, as when I click on the new iTunes Music folder, it shows folders named with all the songs I had, and I confirmed that the G drive is using up the same space as iTunes Music took in the C drive.
In iTunes, in Edit\Preferences\Advanced, it shows in the iTunes music folder location G:\iTunes\iTunes Music, which is where I changed it.
When I load itunes, there are no songs displayed. Why?
Did I do something wrong? I'm stumped.
I rebooted my pc and loaded iTunes, but no difference.

Hi,
Try posting in the iTunes for Windows forum - someone more likely to know what the issue is will be lurking there

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