Moving Lightroom Library

I have photographed on location for over a week and have been compiling images into lightroom on an iMac (G5 running Lightroom V. 1). I will return home and I would like to travel home with my external hard drive and download all of my photos in Lightroom V. 1 on my Mac Pro tower.
I have used my external hard drive as a backup of all the images. I want to transfer some of the editing work that I have done in Lightroom back home. Such as exposure compensations, print presets, folder renaming for instance.
Can anyone tell me the best way to intergrate the Lightroom work I have done so far back on my desktop at home?
John G.

Depends on file type, but you need to write to xmp on all files and then you ought to be able to copy them to your tower and import them into LR 1.1 with the corrections.
You could also copy the files and library from 1.0 onto the tower and open that with 1.1.
Good thing is it will all be a little easier with the new catalogs.

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  • I have a macbook pro with only 128gb of hard drive. I have lightroom installed and all my photos on an external hard drive. Can I store my lightroom library on the external hard drive too?

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