Help with moving itunes to new computer

I bought a new computer and tried to transfer itunes.
My old computer had insufficient space on the c drive to transfer using an external drive (the apple instrutions seem to require all data is collated in a subfolder).
I used home sharing instead.
This seemed to work and when I plugged in my iphone to the new computer photos etc were transferred from my phone ot my new computer.
However, when I try and sync, it simply says step 1 of 1 (not 1 of 4) starting to sync and then stops.
Any ideas on how I get the sync to work?
Thanks

iTunes: How to move your music to a new computer:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4527?viewlocale=en_US

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