Putting Ipod files back on after backing them up

So my Itunes had 7000 songs or so, and about 700 videos. Consequently my poor laptop got quite full and quite slow. So I bought an external hard drive and enlisted the help of a computer-savvy friend. We copied all the files over to the external HD (I for some reason found the files in "My Music", which was in "My Pictures" in "My Documents", weird. There was a file folder for each artist, and every time we tried to copy them all at once, my computer would act up.
So, I had to do it a line or so at a time, like 10 folders at once and that seemed to work (I hope I copied EVERYTHING).
He cleared my Itunes for me, and I think made it so from now on it will all go to my external drive, but still keeping the icon on my desktop.
Now I have to add them back in.
I tried to do it all once and it messed up.
So I deleted the files. I hope I didn't lose them!
I hit "restore" after they all went to the Recycle Bin, so I think they are all back in the Ex.hrd.drv.
Now my Itunes is empty again.
Is there any easier way to put 'em all back w/o doing it artist by artist?
It doesn't want to let me select more than one folder at once.
thanks!
I'm really nervous about all this, to think of how many HOURS and DAYS and WEEKS of my life I've spent building and editing all my music n videos. . . wow!

Your friend was not iTunes savvy at all else you would not have done it as you did.
All you needed to do is to move the *iTunes folder* to the external drive.
Start iTunes holding the Shift key.
Select *Choose existing library* and pick the iTunes library file in the *iTunes folder* you moved.
That's it.
Or else you can point iTunes prefs -> Advanced to the new location where you want your music to be located. (Don't move it there yourself. Just set the prefs to point to where you want it).
Then menu Advanced -> Consolidate library.
Everything will get copied to the new location.
*Is there any easier way to put 'em all back w/o doing it artist by artist*?Make sure iTunes prefs -> Advanced is pointing to the top level folder they are in.
File -> Add folder to library and pick the top level folder where they are.

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