I have my itunes library on my desktop pc. I'm traveling for the summer and would like to have all the content on my laptop as well. What is the fastest way to do this?

I downloaded itunes on my new laptop, but I cannot seem to find any of my content (music, movies, books...). I would like for my itunes library to be available on both computers (desktop pc and laptop pc). IS THIS POSSIBLE???
I've tried homesharing, but nothing shows up. Also, I'm assuming once I leave home with the laptop, the content wouldn't be available.
There is probably a simple solution but I can't seem to figure it out in a crunch...Please help!

Works fine in Windows - copy your entire iTunes library to an external USB drive, plug this into your laptop, start iTunes while holding down the shift key and then select the iTunes library on the external drive. Alternatively you can can repeat the copy process from the external drive to your laptop. Once you have the duplicated libraries Microsoft's SyncToy tool does a good job of keeping the content of the different libraries in sync. You can also copy over a network but unless your library is small this can be very slow. I've used this method for years so that I can have the same library content at home (master), at work, and on the road. One point to note is that this only works if you set iTunes (via Edit > Preferences > Advanced) to keep iTunes media folder organized and copy files to iTunes folder. Other thing is to make sure you exit from iTunes before copying/synchronizing the library, as otherwise the iTunes library files (.itl and .xml in Windows) may be inconsistent with content (everything in iTunes\iTunes Media).

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