Laptop to laptop transfer

Is is possible to somehow plug my old laptop into my new laptop to transfer my Itunes info? The old laptop is just about dead, and complains about file names being too long when I try to create a consolidated Itunes file.

You can network them together temporarily and copy the files over. It requires a bridge; you cannot simply plug one into the other.
But better yet, copy the files from the old PC to an external hard drive, and then from the external hard drive to the new one. Then keep the external hard drive as your backup, and create new backups periodically, so that your valulable music is not at risk.

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