Western Digital My Book Live iTunes files missing

I have a Western Digital My Book Live in which I keep my iTunes Library on. Last night we watched a movie on Apple TV streeming from iTunes. When I got up this morning to connect to itunes on the computer it said "iTunes Library cannot be found" So I went to the Western Digital My Book Live drive to select the Library. To my surprize there was nothing in the iTunes folder. The drive says that 1.2TB are used and my iTunes Library is about 800GB so the files should be there as no one has deleated them.
If anyone has any idea of what caused this of how the fix it please help. This is a lot of info to loose.

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