Import Previews and Collections Only

GOAL: to export the Previews and Collections info ONLY on an old Lightroom catalog/computer and apply that info to same photos on a new Lightroom catalog/computer.
I'm moving my Lightroom Catalog from one computer that utilized multiple external drives to a new computer where everything will be on a single internal drive.
I copied over all of the photos to the new computer and did some re-organizing to group everything better.
I left the file structure within each Lightroom folder intact (eg., if I had sub-dvided photos into ten folders on the old Lightroom computer, those ten folders are the same, but I have put all ten into a new folder to enclose them all).
Ideally, I'd like to just bring in the previews and collection info and apply it to the photos on the new Lightroom computer. Since there are over 20,000 photos, I'd like to avoid having to export as a catalog with all of those originals. Is there a way to export ONLY the previews and collections info and then import that to the new Lightroom computer?
Thanks!

Chris G. wrote:
I cannot seem to get images to appear in the Import Window's preview pane, and thus cannot import them.
Any pointers as to what the problem might be?
I have occasionally had this problem and found either waiting a while or cancelling the Import and then retrying the Import (and being patient) works.
The workflow I use includes giving a custom master/version name to the appropriate images from the camera, such as "Judy in the Garden", importing those pics of Judy, and then supplying another master/version name, such as "Punch Drunk" for the appropriate images of Punch, importing those, and so on. So it can take many iterations to pull all the images in. Often the imports work as you would expect but then suddenly, nothing appears to happen and cancel and I redo it. My suspicion is Aperture is busy doing some housekeeping or other (or hung) but since a retry or two does the trick, I don't worry about it.

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