external hard drive contains files, but the folder in lightroom is empty

I have all my photos on an external hard drive. Years 2006-2015 are only on the external hard drive, they are all organized by month and they all appear in the lightroom Library 5 very well.  2016 is on the internal hard drive of my mac (fine organized and functioning properly) and I also backed it up on the external hard drive. If I go to the finder, I see the 2016 files are on my external hard drive, but 2016 in the lightroom hard disk library is empty. I can't import on the external drive again because when I do that all the files are gray because they are already there on. Any ideas on how to get the files appear in the library?

If you follow the instructions of dj_paige, Lightroom will then see the photos on the EHD, but will no longer see the pictures on the internal drive.  -What are you trying to do?  I got the impression you want Lightroom to see pictures in both IHD and DHM.

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