Sharing itunes on another laptop

Hi there. I am based in London UK - tried transferring my iTunes folder from one lap top to a new one, but I couldn't get the songs to play, kept coming up with "can't find the file". So I tried to share my iTunes library instead (about 10gb total). This seems to work but I have some questions.
1 - isn't it better to have all songs on my hard drive on my laptop rather than sharing?
2 - if I switch off my old laptop that I'm sharing iTunes from, will i not be able to share the library?
3 - when i connect my iPod to my new laptop, it won't let me copy playlists from my iPod to my iTunes library on my laptop. why is this?
4 - synching purchased songs. when I check my purchased account from my new laptop it doesn't "see" the songs I purchased using my old laptop. why is this?
many thanks for any help!
regards

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Your music will only be where you put it. It does not magically appear in other places. Copy it from your old computer or your backup copy of your old computer.
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Hi there,
Firstly i'm not very computer savvy so hope i can explain this properly!
I had my itunes on my work laptop but have now left that company and have been trying to set up my itunes on another laptop at home. For a start we had problems finding a version of itunes that worked on this laptop but when we finally did, we plugged in my laptop which seemed to bring up all my songs properly into the library list but there was a message asking something about my itunes was registered elsewhere and did i now want that itunes to carry over to the current laptop (well that was what i thought it was asking anyway as it wasn't very clear!).
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Se:
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the easiest way will be starting iTunes 7 holding shift, this will let you create or select another library. Another option is create seperate playlists to sort the music.
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Connect your iPod to your other computer. If it is set to update automatically you'll get a message that it is linked to a different library and asking if you want to link to this one and replace all your songs etc, press "Cancel". Pressing "Erase and Sync" will irretrievably remove all the songs from your iPod. When your iPod appears in the iTunes source list change the update setting to manual, that will let you use our iPod without the risk of accidentally erasing it. Check the "manually manage music and videos" box in Summary then press the Apply button. Also when using most of the utilities listed below your iPod needs to be enabled for disc use, changing to manual update will do this by default: Managing content manually on iPod and iPhone
Once you are safely connected there are a few things you can do to restore your iTunes from the iPod. If you have any iTunes Music Store purchases the transfer of purchased content from the iPod to authorised computers was introduced with iTunes 7. You'll find details in this article: Copying iTunes Store purchases from your iPod or iPhone to a computer
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Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
For more information, take a look at:
iOS: Device not recognized in iTunes for Windows
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1538
2. Check the USB cable
3. Verify that Apple Mobile Device Support is installed
4. Restart the Apple Mobile Device Service
5. Verify that the Apple Mobile Device USB Driver is installed
6. Check for third-party software conflicts
Have a nice day,
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