Transferring Catalogs

I have version 4.1 LR on both my home desktop as well as my laptop. I keep my desktop fairly well organized, and it is where I keep my image files for backup.....internal drive backed up onto an external drive.
My laptop is not so organized, and I am trying to clean it up. I use it primarily for a working system, when I'm not home.
My folder system on my laptop is different than the one on my organized desktop. Further, I may have image files on one system but not the other.
An example of what I do is as follows: when I am away from home for awhile, I like to try to save my pictures on the Compact Flash card until I get home. And, I also back them up onto my laptop and external portable hard drive as well. Before I get home, I often will use my laptop and LR to edit certain photos. I may in fact create new files when I create HDR images on my laptop.
When I get home, what I usually do is upload as soon as possible those original pictures from my Compact Flash card or external hard drive onto my home system so I have it there, with its backup. However, what I have not been doing is exporting any catalog settings file from my laptop and importing it onto my desktop.
My question is this: if I export a Catalog file from my laptop, without the negatives (images), and if there is a mismatch between the files on my laptop and my desktop, whether that's because of the file structure differences or whether that's because my laptop may have slightly different files on it than my desktop has, will the Catalog settings still transfer properly? For instance, if I have an HDR image on my laptop, along with any Catalog settings, and this HDR image is not on my home network, will a problem or error be created when I import the laptop Catalog file from my laptop without also importing that HDR file? I would think that the catalog settings for that laptop HDR file would be there, but because the HDR file is not being transferred over, perhaps there might be a problem?
I know I should probably get better on my workflow while away from home, but for now, I'm trying to clean up the existing problem that may exist.
Hope this makes sense.

Thanks for the response. Basically, what happened is, late last year, I took a vacation and took some 1500 photos. I put those on my laptop. When I got home, I put those same pictures on my desktop, where I keep all of my images for backup. In addition, over Christmas, I took some 400 pictures and also put those on my laptop while I was staying at my parents' place. When I got home very late last year after Christmas, I put all of these photos on my desktop, as I always do, hoping to get to them, like those 1500 vacation pictures, with edits, keywords, etc.
Last year, I did not have time to do any edits of those 1500 vacation pictures or on those 400 some odd Christmas photos on my home desktop. I was planning to do so early this year when, unfortunately, I seriously broke my leg. After a long stay in the hospital, I decided to stay at my parents' place to recuperate. And, while I have been recuperating, I spent some time on my laptop editing those 1500 vacation pictures and 400 Christmas pictures in LR. In that process, I created a number of HDR photos from that vacation trip. I also deleted a number of photos from that trip, as well as some from Christmas. So, with the deletion of those photos and the addition of some HDR photos, there is a mismatch between the files on my laptop and my desktop.
I could just copy all of the original files from the laptop back onto my desktop again, as well as transfer the Catalog....and I may very well do this. But I am thinking of just transferring the Catalog settings to my desktop.....if this works, it would be faster for me to do so because I wouldn't have to bother checking which files are mismatched. In order to fully duplicate what is on my laptop and put that onto my desktop, what I would have to do is to delete entirely the photos in question on my desktop and then copy or import the ones that exist on the laptop. With some 2000 odd photos, my automatic backup system will take a while to run. Not a big deal.....I can just let it run for awhile until completion, but I'd prefer not to if I don't have to.
And, I have a few sets of other photos on my laptop which are probably in the same way. I'm just trying to clean up my laptop by essentially deleting some older photos, as long as they are on my desktop, and as long as I have any edits transferred over. I know I need to get the original problem/mismatched issue straightened out, and I'm working towards that.....just need to fix what's already been done.
Thanks

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Please tell us what you read so we can be sure we have the same understanding.
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