Copying part of library

Hello, at first sorry for my bad english, i hope that you understand me.
I have two computers one in my home and one at work. Part of the library of my home is in the computer at work but i want to copy the part of the library that there is in the computer at work that is not in the computer at home. Exist the possibility that i copy all the work library in a hdd but, i want to know the way for copy this library in my home and not duplicate the music.

Pretty much all the files/folders in the Aperture library are needed.
It's not clear from your post just want the problem is. If the disk is bad how is that you are able to copy some of the library but not the whole thing? You should copy as mush as you can and see where you are after that.
You could ditch the Previews and Thumbnails folders. Possibly the Aperture.aplib folder. A few others. But in order to import the remaining data into another library you need the old recovered data in a library that Aperture can open. You can't manually  merge the files into the other library.
You can try this: Create a new empty Library, then replace the Masters and Database folders in the new library with those folders from the old library, then start Aperture while holding down the option and  comand keys and run Rebuild. If the library opens after that you should be OK.
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