Saved iTunes 4 library to an external drive and original library is missing

Can you help me to get it back?

Lara-Mom wrote:
I have a MacBook that I maintain my Itunes library on but had run out of memory so I attempted to move my library to a Lacie external drive.
How & what exactly did you movie?
It appeared to work following steps in a discussion thread
Which discussion thread?

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