How do I: Make a smaller library for my laptop?

I would like to make a smaller "highlights" library on my MacBook based on my full library on my imac. Any suggestions on how best to do this? I'd like to keep my folder structure, and I'm ok adding a special keyword for it. I figure it will be some sort of smart playlist, export then import it on the laptop, but wanted to ask the pros on here first.

You can "sorta/kinda if you squint" do this with music now. Use iTunes 9 on all the machines, and enable Home Sharing. For my setup, the iMac holds everything, and on the MacBook I can click on the Home Share, browse the library, and then "import" it to that machine locally (there is an import button, and you can even set it to only show items not already on the non-master machine). Anything I buy on the MacBook is automatically synced back to the iMac. Its not completely automated, but it is leaps and bounds better than what there was before (cause there was nothing). This does work with videos and Apps though.

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Hello, Welcome to discussions.
The easiest method would be to create a new Windows user, So you both have your own Windows user account you can log into. This acts like a second computer in a way. You have your own desktop, your own programs customized to your needs. This includes iTunes.
When setting up iTunes in the new user. Tell it not to search for WMV or MP3 files. This will ensure you have a blank iTunes Library. And then from there you can start building it.
You can do a search on www.google.com or www.yahoo.com or any other search engine you use for key word " creating new windows user on Vista " without the quotation marks. And it will give you a list of quite a few sites with step by step instructions and pictures on creating a new user.

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IF YOU ARE UNSURE DO NOT DELETE SOMETHING
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I just downgraded from iTunes 11 back to itunes 10.7.5. My iTunes is now working from one of the Previous Music Librabies. How can I make that previous library my current library? Also, I can't empty iTunes 11 frome the trash. Why not?

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Without providing details on exactly what you did it is hard to provide an answer. It's like me saying, "This chocolate cake I made tastes wrong," but not providing the recipe for review. Maybe it was the garlic in that particular recipe.
If iTunes is successfully using a previous library which you rename to iTunes Library.itl then that is now the current library.
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