Using iphone w/itunes on different computers

I am going on vacation and want to take my new macbook. I hope to be able to transfer music from the new macbook to my iphone (which is already linked to my imac) but so far no luck. Does anyone know a way to do this? Thanks!

In regards to iTunes content, an iPhone can be synced with an iTunes library on a single computer only, and photos can be transferred to an iPhone via the iTunes sync process from a single computer only.
When syncing iTunes content and transferring photos from another computer, all iTunes content and photos transferred from a different computer will be erased first.
If you want to sync iTunes content with your new MB without losing the iTunes content on your iPhone that was transferred from your iMac, you need to transfer your iTunes library from your iMac to your MB, and the same for photos if you want to transfer photos from your MB to your iPhone.

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Hello podwalker,
Should I move "iTunes Library.itl" and "iTunes
Music Library.xml" from "C" (my laptop's hard disc)
to my external hard disc, and then chose the manual
synchronisation between iTunes and iPod?
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to set your manual syncronization for both
computers.
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Thanks iPodnano_1GB!
Does someone know if I have to create a folder "My music/iTunes" on my external disc and then copy "iTunes Library.itl" and "iTunes Music Library.xml" documents there? How can iTunes know that "iTunes Library.itl" and "iTunes Music Library.xml" are to be found at this new location?
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