Lightroom 4.4; transfering images from laptop to desktop

I am using lightroom 4.4. I have a more than 10000 images on my desktop computer. I have just bought a laptop and installed lightroom on it. When travelling I intend to perform basic library functions (deleting poor images, create file names for photos, add keywords and other meta data info) with the laptop. my lap top has limited storage, so I will be using an external drive. I have two questions: 1. how can use the laptop external drive as my temporary catalog so as not to use up space on my SSD drive? 2. what do I need to do ensure when I transfer the photos from the laptop external drive to my desktop catalog that file names, keywords and metadata etc are included in the transfer.

Q1 is easy to answer: You can open a specific catalog (at least in LR 5.x) and also create a new one, of course on any drive You'd like.
Q2 is much harder; I'm just starting to solve this for my own.
One solution could be to have the catalog on some private (Own-) Cloud space while the pictures reside on the HD. Dunno if that can be done, but with my reasonably fast connections I will try that anyway.
A much more complicated way would be tu use DBSchemaCrawler and diff (from the cygwin-collection) together with some scripting elements. Those could be the integrated LUA from LR, Windows Powershell or bash (also from cygwin), and probably the native sqlite commandline utility. :-/
Either way, the pictures have to have the same drive letter and path on both computers, since this root is stored in the DB. One can use the subst command from windows or a softlink under Mac OS To ensure this.
IF noone else comes up with a good and working solution, stay tuned; I'm pretty sure I can solve that before the end of the year.

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I use a laptop in the field. If I use referenced masters on the laptop, how to I transfer these as referenced to my desktop referenced library? Would I merge the libraries and then have to reconnect the masters?

When you import photos into Aperture, photos are imported as managed images. This means that Aperture has the images in its library file. When files are refrenced, this means that the files are outside the Aperture library but are refrenced for you to work with them. I would personally use manages images for your needs currently. If you would like to keep them managed, this is how you would do so. Check in the import window under Aperture library. It should say “send to” and then “in aperture library”. In my opinion as evidenced by what I learned from people that answered my question, it is easier to import libraries into your main Aperture library as managed.
You can keep two copies of Aperture. One on your laptop as well as one on your desktop. All you have to do is copy the Aperture application from one computer to the other. Please note though when there are updates to your Aperture library on the computer you first installed it one, you will have to recopy it in order to have the updates take hold on the other computer. This is good nws for you because then you will not have to pay additional money in order to have them on both computers.
Back to what you wanted to do. Once you have installed it on your laptop, import your photos as usual. After you make other changes and edits you will want to merge this library with your iMac. Copy your Aperture library from your laptop onto an external drive and plug it into your desktop. Then from the Aperture application on your desktop select “file, import library”. Then click merge changes. Your changes will be merged. I would recommend that after your images are backed up with time machine or cloning, then you should delete the photos on your laptop. This then saves space. Let me know if this helps.
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I don't have a .mac account and want to transfer mail received on my laptop to my desktop G5. I don't want to simply "forward" the new emails and open them on the desktop (they will all list me as the sender). Apple support suggested making a folder on my laptop desktop and simply copying and pasting the messages (from the user/library/mail folder) into the new folder, then dragging it into the desktop ~/library/mail folder. "Mail" sees the folder, but sees no emails inside. Is there a simple way to move new messages from one Mac to another without using iSync or a .Mac account?

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Alternatively, if what you really want to do is merge the mail stored on one computer with whatever mail is already stored on the other, then File > Import Mailboxes should be used instead.
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Mail data "synchronization" at the filesystem level can only be done reliably if it's a one-way operation, i.e. if the entire contents of the Mail folder in one of the computers are overwritten by the entire contents of the other.
This is not a Mail thing. You would encounter similar issues with any other mail client because there is no way you can avoid the same files being modified on both computers if you use both between synchronizations. The only reliable way to achieve mail synchronization between computers is using an IMAP account and storing mail on the server -- that's precisely what IMAP is for.
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user's home folder, i.e. ~/Library is the Library folder within the user's home folder.

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Hello, Sandralee59.
Thank you for the question. The attached article below provides multiple options for moving your iTunes library to a new computer.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4527
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Your note did inspire me to try one thing though: I UN-checked my Bridge preference to export caches to folders when possible, then I went to the folder I was trying to move (on the NAS) and did Tools > Cache > Purge Cache. I found that if the folder contained only files and no other folders, then I could move the folder to my desktop. However, if the folder in question had nested folders, then I still run into the same conflict.
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