Merge iTune xml files.

Hi everyone,
I have two iTunes Libraries - one on my laptop and one on an external hard drive that goes with my desktop. I don't use the desktop very much anymore, so I want to add the external drive to my laptop and see the music and MOST IMPORTANTLY my playlists. So I want to know how I can merge the playlists on the hard drive with the playlists on the laptop.
HELP!!!

Yes, either as transaction properties, Or if it is already saved somewhere, you can use XML loader action.
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It is difficult to understand your question as the the number of xml files does not seem to be related to your question. If you have a complex question then you need to explain it fully with your current iTunes set up.
The simple answer assuming a default iTunes set up is.
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2. With iTunes closed, Copy the iTunes folder to the external drive.
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I'd like to ask the community if anyone else is having trouble with corruption of their iTunes XML library file?
Back on October 20th, my iTunes library completely imploded: roughly one third of all songs stopped playing, all my Digital Copy movies refused to play. I had just upgraded my iPad to iOS 6 and pretty much everything imploded. The solution was to basically delete the iTunes XML files, re-install the software and then re-import all my uploaded music.
Yesterday, I connected one of my iPod Classics and saw the same error messages that started the first round of trouble: there were 7 files that iTunes claimed it could not sync with my Classic because they were the "wrong format". I checked each in turn and they turned out to be from 3 of my 650 or so albums. In each case I could click on the iTunes entry and nothing would play: no error was reported.
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My iTunes Library "XML" file is in my local home directory [default location], but because it's now well over 200Gb in size, all the music files for iTunes are stored in a QNAP NAS [works fine, local Apple folk helped me configure it].
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