Unable to open a iphoto library after moving to another hard drive.

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Unable to open a iphoto library after moving to another hard drive.

Due to space issues on my Mac Book Pro, I moved my iPhoto library to an external hard drive. Once the transfer was complete I created a new library and then tried to relaunch the old library off the Ext HD. It now tells me the library is locked or on a locked device or I don't have permission. Neither of the those are in effect. The Ext HD is fine, when I go to Get Info on the iPhoto library it says I have custom access. and the locked box is not checked.

Any thoughts!?!

Thanks!

Kyle

iPhoto '11, iOS 5.1.1

Posted on Sep 3, 2012 7:09 PM

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LarryHN

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Sep 3, 2012 9:00 PM in response to kyle.sylvester26

What format is the external drive? It must be Mac OS extended (journaled) to house the iPhoto library.

I'm not sure what the creation of a new library was about ro where you created it or why

what do you see if you depress the option key and launch iPhoto and use the select library command? Can you access your library on the EHD that way?

LN

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