Move Lightroom catalog containing images located on a NAS

Hello,
I want to move my Lightroom catalog from my old PC to my new iMac.
The catalog contains only images located on a NAS.
I can connect to the NAS from both computer, but when I'm trying to ´import the catalog I get the message "Lightroom could not import this catalog because of an unknown error"
I use the same versions of Lightrrom on both computers.
Does anyone know how to solve this?
Best regards

Finally I figured out how to solve this!
I opened the catalog containing NAS images and pointed the missing files to the NAS-location.
Then I opened the main catalog and imported the NAS-catalog. It worked!
Thank you TubbeAh!

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