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Environment: Lightroom 4.1, Windows 7, JPG and RAW images
 
We often work remotely on a laptop, then come back to the studio and transfer images from a shoot to the main PC for further work.  Some adjustments in Lightroom were done to some images in the folder already, as well as rating some of the best images.  
 
It seems the recommended way of copying images from a laptop to the main PC is to use the "Export as Catalog" function with the "Export negative files" option turned on.  However, when working with hundreds of files, this process takes a very long time, and also duplicates the images on the same laptop in the export location.  This doesn't work well when working with 50GB of files, especially when only a few of them have any Lightroom adjustments anyways. 
 
Is there a way to just copy the entire directory structure over to the main PC (copying files is fairly quick  over Gigabit Ethernet), and then export only the metadata for the files (or catalog) over to the main PC so I can keep the adjustments?
 
In other words, instead of having to do this:

1. Export as Catalog
2. Wait a very long time for the laptop to duplicate all the images and export files
3. Re-import this catalog to my Main catalog
4. Wait a very long time for this to happen
 
It would be WAY faster to just do this:
1. Copy entire folder structure from laptop to main PC (this is quick)
2. Export metadata from these files only
3. Import metadata to new PC

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