[Roy Dennis]

It may help if you can answer these questions to understand what you are doing.
1) When you copied these files from your desktop to your external hard drive, were these files copied to a single folder on the hard drive or a number of folders?
2)When you you look in the list of folders from the Build database dialog, Do you see your external drives directory letter listed ? Not the "C:\Folder Name" but Probably something like "E:\Folder Name" or whatever your external drive letter is and folder names.

3) if you select one in the list, do you see all the songs contained in that folder in the panel on the right.?

4) Are there any folders missing in the left panel that contain your music ?

5) Another thing you can check, press the excluded folders button and see if any of the folders containing your music are listed here, if so press the button to remove folder from list and go back to the Indexed folders list dialog and use the Add folder button to put them into that list.

When doing this if the files you are trying to import are .kma or other types that already have their kmh headers with them, leave all the song type buttons unselected.