Adding to an existing itunes folder on external Hard drive?

[cherrybomb]

Please forgive me if this has been posted before. I was just confused as to how to word the search correctly so that I get the right answers.

Okay here's the thing: I (not so long ago) copied my entire itunes library to my external hard drive. Now I have updated my itunes library on my powerbook, and want to make sure that I back up the new songs/albums I have. The problem with this is that I have always found that when I drag the itunes folder from my powerbook to the itunes folder on my external drive, it asks to 'replace the itunes music folder'. I don't want this as there are some albums that I have stored in my folder but not on my itunes library and still want to keep them stored.

Is there any way that I could just keep adding to the 'existing' itunes folder on my external drive?

Sorry if the wording is complicated...

Any help would be great,

Thanks

 

[jampat]

If you drag the group of individual files (as opposed to the folder containing them) everything should work.