Moved itunes to external hard drive now library not showing up

I tried to move itunes to an external hard drive to free up space but now I can't get my library to come up. What do I do?

Hi, BreezerSB2.
It sounds like you may not have followed the instructions described in this article in the Apple Knowledge Base.
If that's not possible - or you don't want to do so - and the music files are in fact on your external drive, you can add them to your iTunes Library by referring to this article 's Add to Library section.

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This has probably been posted before but i couldn't find it.
My itunes works on another computer, with the library (Edit->Preferences->Itunes location as g:\itunes), this includes the xml files for the library.
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+this includes the xml files for the library.+
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I believe it is shift key on Windows, option key on Macs.
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