another iTunes question

Hello,
I just got an external drive and moved all my music there.
I kept my downloaded music on my hard drive as a back up and deleted files I have the CD for. Recently I had to reboot my comp and now iTunes is pointing to the copy on my hard drive (not pointing to the external). When I right click a song in iTunes and get info, The songs I kept on my hard drive/downloaded music says Macintosh HD/user/ect..for a location. The other that I do not have a digital copy for still say Mybook/tunes (the folder on the external).
so, the question is how do I have the location of all my songs be the external drive?

Thanks so much.

 

I'd probably delete all the data from the current iTunes library - note, select keep the existing files!
Then do File > Add files/folder to library and select the external drive.

You may have to re-create any playlists again though.

Sorry I'm not of an alternative - unless you could set the default location for audio files in preferences.

 

thanks for the info, is this the only way to do this?

 

I'd imagine so, unless anyone else can shed some light.