Transferring Same Library to 2 Different Computers

Does anyone know how I can transfer the contents from my i-tunes library on one computer to an i-tunes library on another compter?

This might help:
http://playlistmag.com/features/2005/08/shiftitunes/index.php

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    hello everyone,
    I have 2 different computers that I use for music almost everyday, one at work and one at home so i have all my music on my portable drive. I spend many hours organizing my 90 gb of music at home this weekend and I'm updating my library at work. what i usually do when i have new music is sort my music library in finder by "modified date" and just drag the songs that are new into the library and it automatically adds them to the library. since this is a pretty big change to the library, i deleted the library files on the work computer so i can start with a fresh empty library. I just started import files to the library and i realize in the finder that some of the files/folder were modified (when i sort them in the finder some of the files show "modified today").
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    Message was edited by: William Hu

    It could cause problems for the reason you state -- the files will be modified by different libraries.
    *what exactly did itunes change in the files?*
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    As for album artwork, I have never found this to be a problem. As soon as a music file is imported into a new library, the album artwork seems to automatically come with it (presuming it already existed).

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    I'm working on a long documentary and I'm new to FCPX (coming from Avid NC and Edius)...I have and external HD where I stored all the media I'm working with (about 1/2T - 1000 clips)...The library (about 100gb) is stored on the internal drive of my iMac and into the iCloud.
    Yesterday, I received my new MacBook and today I tried to work on it. I followed this steps: I downloaded from iCloud the same library I was working with, I put it on the same folder (movies) it was stored on my iMac and I connected my external HD with all the media...Results? All the clips where gone and the red missing file warning was all over the place.
    FIRST QUESTION: How can I work on both computer overcoming this missing files problem? I know I should have put the library on the same external drive but It was a move aiming to
    SUB QUESTION 1:
    I went back to my iMac and everything worked fine except for a warning about one of my events (the exclamation point) as you can see from this pic:
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    SUB QUESTION 2:
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    I downloaded from iCloud the same library I was working with
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    Bill

    iTunes accounts or Windows accounts?
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