Question about how itunes searches for my music

hi,
i have a large library of music that i used to store on an internal hard drive (f:), but recently i got an external hard drive and moved all my music to it (g:).
i copied all my music to the g drive, and in the advanced pull down menu in itunes i changed the location to search for music to g: my music... at that point i thought i was done.
but as it turned out, whereas i thought i had MOVED all my files to the g drive, i had actually copied them, and the ones that were originally on the f drive are still there.
since then i have added lots of music to the library, and it all lives on the g drive. but i am starting to run out of space on my f drive, so when i discovered there were duplicate files there, i wanted to delete them all. here's wherein my problem lies.
if i go to a song that was in the library before i switched over to the g drive, in the get info window for that song in itunes, it still lists the song as living in the f drive as opposed to the g drive.
i need to delete all the music off the f drive, but my concern is that itunes will say i've just lost all that music. is there a way to basically empty out/depopulate itunes of all the music, and then go to file> add folder to library and just choose the g: my music folder? i know it will take a while, but that's fine. i just don't want to lose access to 27 out of 38 gigs of music by deleting the music off my f drive, and i really don't want to have to go through folder by folder and make the transition, as there are several groups who have music listed in both the f anf the g folders... it would be a nightmare to have to go through group by group, album by album.
any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks!
pc running windows xp Windows XP
pc running windows xp   Windows XP  

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
If you delete everything from your iTunes library
(Moving it to the Recylcle Bin), you can then go to
File>Add Folder to Library and select the Music
folder from your external drive.
Or, from the file browser you can locate the Music
folder on the external drive and drag+drop it into
the iTunes window.
Hope this helps!
hi,
okay... this worked sort of, but now i've lost all my playlists. they are still on my actual ipod, but now i need to know... if i go to sync the ipod with itunes, will itunes recognize my playlists and move them into itunes? or do i now need to go through and manually re-setup all my playlists BEFORE syncing again, because the playlists will get wiped out when i go to sync?
please let me know if you have any info about this... i really don't want to lose all my playlists.
thanks,
lori
pc running windows xp Windows XP
pc running windows xp Windows XP
pc running windows xp Windows XP

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