Trouble moving Music (formerly iTunes) to a new external drive
I currently have my iTunes folder stored on an external hard drive and have the Music app on my MacBook Pro set to find the library there. I bought a new, larger hard drive and want to move my all of the contents of my iTunes folder from the old hard drive onto the new one and link it to iTunes.
I copied the iTunes folder from Old HardDrive to New HardDrive, then disconnected Old HardDrive, held down the option key and clicked the Music app. When prompted, I selected "Choose Library," selected NewHardDrive in the left navigation bar, clicked through the iTunes folder and selected the "iTunes Library.itl" file.
Now here's where things differ from every how-to article I've found online on how to move iTunes to a new drive and get weird:
After I select the "iTunes Library.itl" file and select Choose, a menu appears for me to name and select where to save... something? the "iTunes Library.itl" file I just selected? It's not clear. By default, this menu is pointing to the Music folder on my machine, which I don't use because everything is pointed to the Old HardDrive. And I don't want to use, because I'm moving it all to the New HardDrive.
Why am I being asked to name save the file? I thought by selecting the .itl file, I was telling the Music app where to look for the library. At no point did I duplicate or create a library; why am I needing to rename, I guess, this .itl file and move it somewhere? And where should I move it? It feels right to move it to the external drive, but where? Just in the iTunes folder, where the .itl file I am renaming lives?
MacBook Pro