Aperture to Lightroom transition process

I have migrated my Aperture Library to Lightroom. The library is very large (200+ GB) and resides on an external hard drive.
When I plug this external hard drive into my desktop computer at home (a Mac) and open Lightroom, I see that all of my projects, albums and keywords have properly migrated to Lightroom. But, when I plug the external drive into my laptop (MacBook Pro - newer than the desktop computer), none of those things is visible. In other words, I can click on 'import' at the bottom of the window and all the images show up in Lightroom, but only in chronological order. None of my organizational structure (projects, albums, keywords, etc) appears. This is a profound mystery to me. Any thoughts?
I have tried contacting customer support, but they have been pretty useless so far. I have to say that I am quite resentful that Adobe asks its customers to make a commitment by paying a monthly fee, but they seem to have pretty much washed their hands of their duty to provide good customer support. This is just not right. Any attempts at escalating this complaint have been given lip service with no real response.
Ellen (San Francisco)

The screenshots make it clearer what's going on.  In LR terminology, the term "catalog" is used ambiguously.  Strictly speaking, a catalog is a database file that contains references to the images but not the images themselves; the catalog also contains metadata and the definitions of collections, smart albums, etc.  The catalog is represented by the .lrcat file and associated preview files and subfolders.  Sometimes, however, Adobe documentation and others use the term "catalog" loosely to mean both the database proper and all the referenced images.  So you have to be careful when reading and discussing the catalog.
As you've discovered, when you first imported from Aperture, the plugin created the catalog (the .lrcat file) on your desktop harddrive, while the images were on the external drive.  All fine so far.  Then you connected the external drive to your laptop, but it didn't have access to the catalog residing on the desktop harddrive, so LR created a new blank catalog.
I believe you've now copied the catalog from the desktop harddrive (/Users/elenita/Pictures/Lightroom) onto your external drive.  But when you open that catalog, LR thinks all of the images are "missing" and marks their thumbnails with a "!".  That is, the filenames recorded in the catalog database aren't pointing to the current locations of the images.  I'm not sure how this happened, because we're probably missing some details of what you've done.  Some next steps:
1. On your desktop, verify that you've opened the catalog on the harddrive by doing Lightroom > Catalog Settings > General.  The Location field should show the location of the .lrcat file on the external drive.
2. In the left-hand column, click the left-pointing black arrow next to Seagate Backup (that's your external drive, right?):
That will expand the Folders view and let you see all the folders the LR catalog knows about.  It should look something like this:
3. Right-click one of the top-most folders (e.g. in the shot above, "1991") and select Show Parent Folder.  Keep repeating that until the top-most folder is "/"; it should now look something like this:
Expand any collapsed folders by clicking the grey arrows to the left of the folder, so we can see the catalog's hierarchy.   That hierarchy should correspond to what's on your external drive, but something has obviously gone wrong.
4. Take a screenshot of the Folders pane and post it here.  Don't make any changes in the interim.  The screenshot should make it very obvious how to quickly fix your catalog.

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    My library had about 68,000 images and after about 6 hours it was up to 30% or so, so I just clicked on DONE to see how it was handling my folder structure.
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