Library on external drive, can't get itunes to find it...can anyone help?

whilst trying to free up space on my hard drive, i now find that itunes cannot find all my music on my external hard drive when i open itunes..the whole music thing is empyty, can anyone please help...?

File -> Add folder to library and select the music folder on the external.

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