i photo and external drive

Quit iPhoto, drag the iPhoto library folder as one single entity to your external drive and launch iPhoto while depressing the option (alt) and command (apple) keys - use the select library option and point iPhoto to the iPhoto library you just moved to the external drive

LN

Message was edited by: LarryHN

Hello Myron,

It can be very handy to store your iPhoto library (and your iTunes library for that matter) on an external drive. Make sure the drive is formated for Mac (MacOSExtended) rather than for Windows (MS-DOS, etc.). Storing Mac data on a windows formated drive reduces performance and can damage data over time.

Apple documents moving the library to other locations on their website: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iPhoto/7.0/en/6331.html

You can check to make sure your drive is formated correctly and re-format if needed following another knowledge base article:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306143

Please be aware that if you do have to reformat the drive it will ERASE any information currently on the drive.

Cheers!