Move all my songs to external harddrive

I changed the settings so that NEW songs added to my itunes library would be put in the designated folder in my external harddrive, but how can I add the old ones to it and take them off my laptop's harddrive?

Mike and Chris are already helping you, Pete. Don't see that I could do anything but confuse the issue.
Please note, though, and Consolidate will not work if you've moved tracks manually. Consolidate only works with folders to which iTunes had been set previously and where it currently correctly knows the locations. If you've moved things around and broken iTunes links to the tracks, the Consolidate command is not going to help. Just so you're clear on that; it's not clear to me from your other thread that you understand what Consolidate is for.

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