Moving a folder from external to internal hard disk

I want to move a music folder on my external hard drive to the internal one. I had previously disabled the option of copying files to iTunes library so this folder is not a part of iTunes Music folder Music/iTunes/iTunes Music but is is added to the library. If this would have been a folder on internal one then seems like itunes synchronizes it if I move the folder at some other location but here in this case if I move the files then there is no synchronization and itunes asks me to locate it. I don't seem to find any solution online. Please help

What I'd do is make a parent folder on the external for all of your images inside of LR. Then copy all the images, including the parent to the new location. Copy the catalog to its new location too. Then open the copied catalog, at which time all your folders will be red. Then locate just the parent folder within LR and all the rest will be found. Then delete the parent and promote the rest.

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