transferring itunes music library to external drive

[Moogman]

i need to free up some space and tranfer all my itunes song library to an external drive. How do i go about this?

 

[SideWinder]

For my iTunes, i have a folder called 'iTunes' and it has everything stored in there...just copy and paste surely and then re-add?

 

[Moogman]

For my iTunes, i have a folder called 'iTunes' and it has everything stored in there...just copy and paste surely and then re-add?

i tried to copy and paste by selecting all the tracks but for some reason only the first three copy across. i have 6000 tracks.