WHY can't this be a simple drag and drop????

Why why why Apple?? My old computer died, so I put all my iTunes music on my external hard drive. Now I have copied all 5000 songs into my new laptop's Itunes Music folder. Easy enough, right? WHY WON"T ITUNES FIND THESE SONGS?? They are all there. Itunes is looking to that library for music but it won't see them. I have authorized this computer.
WHY? WHY ISN"T THIS SIMPLE??
I hate to say HELP because I think I did everything right. Aargh. Help.

When you moved stuff to the external drive and back to the laptop, did you move the entire iTunes folder, which would have included the iTunes Library file as well as the folder full of music? If you only moved the music and the iTunes Library file as been lost, you will need to reimport the music. You will have lost playcounts, playlists, last played, ratings. If on the other hand, you did move the whole folder, you should be able to get iTunes to be able to see it again by holding down the Shift key while launching iTunes. It will ask you to select a library. Direct it to the one on your laptop.
It is as simple as drag and drop as long as you drag and drop the right things.
Best of luck.

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