Want to move library to the internal HD

Hi, I know this is probably easy, but my search didnt turn up anything.
My old Mac didnt have enough room on its HD to store my iTunes library, so I bought an external HD and that is where my library currently resides. I now have a new iMac and do have enough room (the external doesn't now) and my 9 year old external seems to be dying.
I transferred my music file to my internal HD and need to know how to get iTunes to recognize the music/data is there now.
Thanks!

Hi Robert,
Just asked the same question recently here and got great support so thought I'd pass it along.
All you have to do is select the project with the masters you want to move and then go to File > Relocate Masters for This Project. I did not try moving masters in multiple projects simultaneously so do not know if you can or not.
You can move the masters to where ever you want and even make subfolders. Be sure to check that the drop down option says masters for this project as a couple times I ended up only moving a single image for some reason.
Hope this helps. Good luck.
n

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