Songs in My iTunes got disconnected from songs on hard drive-can't sync

For some reason, all the sudden, the songs in My iTunes got disconnected from the songs on the hard drive and now when I try to sync a playlist, I get an error and it won't work. How can I connect the songs again all at once instead of having to go through and do them individually one by one?

From iTunes File menu choose
"Add to library ..."
then select the folder that contains all your audio tracks.

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both external drives came preformatted for Windows but I erased each and reformatted them for Mac before using them.
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The music sync is one one way - computer to ipod. The exception is itunes purchases. File>Transfer Purchases
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