Help on combining databases

Can someone please specifically tell me what I need to do to combine databases? I just want to move my hand histories from a laptop to a desktop and vice versa so I can have more reliable stats. I've searched and the directions I've seen don't correspond to tabs/buttons in PT3 so I'm lost. I tried using the export button for hand histories, saving it to a .txt file and importing to my desktop but I get the error "file type not supported". Any step by step help would be appreciated. 
