Troubles using external hard drive, why won't it show my library after I've led the path to it?

Hi, my library is on an external drive, I've gone to preferences and clicked the way throught to the correct folder of the itunes library I'd like to use. When I click on Library, nothing is there.
Thank you for your help

You don't do it with preferences.  As it says, that tells it where to store media and your library is more than just media.
Hold down the option/alt key while starting iTunes and guide it to the iTunes Library.itl file in the iTunes folder you wish to use.

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