My playlist didn't show up on new laptop after copying from the old laptop

What can I do when my playlists didn't show up on new laptop after copying from the old one?

abombaci wrote:
I just simply copy only the whole iTunes music folder to my external hard drive, that's it and it goes good. That way if you just copy the whole iTunes folder it also carries along with it all it's subfolders. If subfolders aren't carried over you may end up with a library with missing album arwork. Album artwork, iTunes media folder, itunes previous libraries, itunes XML folders etc., etc. You get the picture.
Yes.
This is much better way than changing the media folder location.
Keep everything in the same iTunes folder.
However, when I do it this simple way as compared to the Apple way it doesn't save my play counts or ratings.
Since it is exactly the same library, everything should be the same.
Then just go to external drive click on iTunes folder and then in iTunes add folder to library and all your songs load up. This isn't moving the library but just backing it up.
You don't need to add anything.
Hold Option and launch iTunes.
Select Choose library... and select the iTunes folder you copied to the external.
You can delete then /Music/iTunes/ folder as this same folder was copied to the external and this is now your iTunes library.
You can also do this top make a backup of the iTunes library (thoug you should be making a backup (Time Machine or some other backup program) of yoru entire computer.

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