Lost link to library

Hello all, I've just upgraded my Mac to a lovely spangly 27" widescreen (great screen btw).
Previously my itunes library was on an external and I'd like to keep it that way, however on starting up the new Mac and getting everything up & running, I plugged my external in and chose it as the library in iTunes preferences.
When trying to play something, it seems to recognise most of the movies fine, but a lot (and I mean A LOT) of my music has become disconnected, so any ideas how to get them bak on there (without the need to reimport about 6000 tracks would be appreciated.
I hate the sight of the grey exclamation marks!!
thanks
Trev

Eveything is now in a single iTunes folder on your internal drive? Library files and all? If that is the case I recommend:
iTunes: How to move your music to a new computer [or another drive] - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4527
do not confuse moving your whole folder and library with moving just media files as in
iTunes for Mac: Moving your iTunes Media folder - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1449
Quick answer if you let iTunes manage your music: Copy the whole iTunes folder and all its subfolders and files intact to the other drive. Start iTunes with the option key held down and guide it to the new location of the library.
I think if you are going to have iTunes on an external drive you might as well put it all on the external drive (including library files). This will facilitate moving the collection in the future because then you only need drag the iTunes folder elsewhere. The only time I would consider not keeping the library files with the media files is if I wanted some media on an external and some on an internal and disabled itunes from managing my media, but we're talking a specific setup here.

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However, iTunes cannot find the music files in their original location because they are now on the external drive.
Please let me know how to point iTunes to the location on the external drive where the library file can be found.
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Go to EDIT then PREFERENCES
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Hi, grateful if anyone can help. After a lot of
problems I eventually managed to upgrade to Itunes 5,
however the library folder is now empty. Due to
partition space I had previosuly set up my Itunes
library in a different location to the default
settings - C, Documents and settings etc. (and also backed up on an external hard > disk). I have checked the folder to where I store my music files and they are still there. (If I click on a file it will play in Itunes).
I have clicked on preferences within I tunes and the
designated folder path is to the correct location,
but the library is empty when I open in Itunes. I
have tried dragging XML files accross to the folder
where my music is stored but this has not helped.
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