Export catalog problem/question involving previews.

I just returned from a month long trip with a laptop and external drive containing 280gb (~11000 raw files) of photos which are in the same directory layout as my desktop (year/date -- e.g. root/Photos/2012/2012-12-01). For speed reasons the catalog and previews are on the laptop's C: internal drive which is an SSD. Some of these photos have already been edited, and about half of them have * ratings. All of them have at least a few keywords assigned. I want to finish the selection and editing on my much faster desktop with better monitors.
My aim is to get the remote catalog into the desktop's catalog (on its SSD E: drive) and the raw files onto my big drive with all my other photos without losing any of my work. And then wipe the portable drive so it is ready for the next trip. The plan was to
1. Export the catalog and previews only.
2. Import that into the desktop.
3. Drag/drop the the raw files into the main photo drive (and manually reconnect each day if needed).
---The message I got with the export is: "Lightroom was able to export some of the photos to the new catalog, but encountered these problems." "Photo previews could not be found (4446)" ...and then it lists the raw names in expandable groups of 100. These photos do not appear to have anything in common but there are so many of them it is hard to tell.
So I have a couple of questions: What does this error mean? Are the previews in any way necessary to preserve my work? (as I understand it the previews are expendable and would just be rebuilt, and if this is the case, it is not a problem. But that's only what I have read from various online sources). The way I read this message, it is only a minor inconvenience but that is based on the assumption the previews are expendable and the catalog is what is important. What concerns me is the wording:
"Lightroom was able to export some of the photos" --which leads me to think the previews are not expendable.
If this were just a few dozen photos I would experiment, but I dont want to mess up my main catalog with thousands of potential errors! I am running 4.4 on both machines. Thank you in advance for any insight or advice!

George in Seattle wrote:
...---The message I got with the export is: "Lightroom was able to export some of the photos to the new catalog, but encountered these problems." "Photo previews could not be found (4446)" ...and then it lists the raw names in expandable groups of 100. These photos do not appear to have anything in common but there are so many of them it is hard to tell.
So I have a couple of questions: What does this error mean? Are the previews in any way necessary to preserve my work?
To answer your original question: You have probably ticked "Include available previews" when you did the Export as Catalog.
But not all previews were available, hence the error message.
I did not test if this affects the entire export of the catalog entry pertaining to the image in question.
But as you correctly stated: previews can be built by each computer running LR again, independantly. It just takes some time. But then so does the transfer of the quite substantial preview data (depending on size specified).
So I would not bother transferring previews, just leave it unticked. Then no such error messages would occur.
Your description no 1. would now be: export the catalog (i.e. the .lrcat file only, assuming you do 3. separately and have "Export negative file" unticked).
But if your travel-laptop did get a new catalog just for the trip, there would be no need to export anything.
Then you just plug your laptop accessible for your desktop, open your master catalog on the desktop and do an "Import from Another Catalog" from the complete travel-catalog.
Have your external-travel-HD plugged, then move the folders inside LR from travel-HD to your big disk.
Saves you reconnecting each folder.
Cornelia

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