Can't see "albums" when reviewing photos stored on external drive

Goal: I'd like to be able to rapidly hook up my external hard-drive, find 6 photos previously sorted into an album (as when they were originally sorted by me in my computer's iPhoto) and copy those back onto my computer for my use.
Problem: When I go to review my backed up iPhoto library on the external hard-drive the photos are only organized in folders by year or by roll name. I can't seem to see the previous very extensive album list in which I'd originally sorted my photos. To look them up by date again would be very time consuming especially considering I've already taken time to created hundreds of albums and manually alpha sorted these albums!
My photo collection is too extensive to import the entire library back onto my computers hard-drive.
A professional Mac troubleshooter had shown me once how to do this but I've forgotten. It was something like putting my computer's current iPhoto library in the trash, and then open iPhoto. When iPhoto asked "what library to use" click on the one on the external drive. This revealed the previous album list in the Source column of the iPhoto window.
However I'm a little afraid to try this, as then I'm only one click away from trashing current photos that I may not have backed up?
Thanks for your help.

Welcome to the Apple Discussions. It looks like your other post was deleted. That often happens with duplicate posts, but they usually try to remove the one that was not answered.
To switch libraries, Quit iPhoto. Hold down the Option key as you launch iPhoto. At the dialog, select "Choose Library" then navigate to the iPhoto Library folder that you wish to open. You can do this to open the library on your external hard drive, select the albums you want, and Export those photos to your Desktop. Then Quit iPhoto, Option-Launch again, open your regular library, import the photos from your Desktop, then delete the Desktop copies.
If that sounds inconvenient, you can use iPhoto Library Manager to transfer the albums from one library to the other.
Regards.

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