Lost my playlists and itunes is not opening the library

About two months ago I purchased an external HDD and moved my music library to that. I redirected itunes to those files via the edit button/advanced and created the path. Within the last two weeks the library does not show the songs and all of the playlists are gone. I went into "MY computer" and followed the path to the external HDD and the music was still their, the path was directed to the external HDD but nothing shows up in ITUNES. I think my daughter updated at the suggestion of ITunes. but not sure if that was the culprit. HelP!!
Thank you!

How did you actually move the music files to the external hard drive? Just changing the music library location does not move the music files.
If you right click on a file and select "Get Info", and then check the path shown does the file exist at that location? If not is it still in the old location?
When the update was done it probably dropped the play lists and songs it could not find which is why they are not showing up.

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