Where my music

I have all my music located on an external drive, it's worked fine for over a year. All of a sudden my itunes can't find the files... why? Do I have to import all the files all over again???

Ok this is what I did to resolve the issue and it worked.
1. On the Summary tab of iPod Touch in iTune, I checked Sync only Checked songs
2. In the iTunes music I highlighted all music, right clicked, and unchecked all music
4. Synced iPod, which deleted all music from iPod
5. Now I selected 20 tracks in iTunes music library and checked them off
6. Synced iPod again. This time iPod showed those 20 tracks.
7. Repeated the steps for all music and synced again. Now iPod shows all music.
I still don't know what caused the problem in the first place...

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I cant find my music!

Hey elprincipe22,
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Windows: In My Computer
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