ITunes stopped using my library and data on an external drive suddenly.

My iTunes folder is on volume H:\itunes since years.
Today when I startet iTunes, all setting were resetted, the library was empty (apart from those cloud songs) and the path to the folder was set to C:\user\mymusic...
When I set the path in the settings to H:\itunes nothing changes - although iTunes seems to accept the chaning, my music files are not added and as I guess fom not being able to delete the unwanted folder from C:\user\mymusic... it is still working with those files.
Replacing the .xml and .itl files with 1 week old backups does not bring any change either.
I guess it is an update issue and the updated iTunes is just not able to work with files on external drives - I have seen similar problems in this board from the last couple hours... does it still work for someone or do you have any ideas I could try?
Thanks in advance!

Okay, I found out for myself what the problem was:
Somehow iTunes decided to no longer knowing where I store my ituneslibrary.itl and switched back to default (users/mymusic/itunes).
I needed to start iTunes with pressed SHIFT in order to define the old folder on the external drive as the new one.
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/recovering-itunes-from-an-ext ernal-hard-drive/

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