Move Location of New Photos App Library

I migrated my Aperture library into the new photos app, and elected to put all my photos into iCloud Photo. The old Aperture library lived on an external HD and when I open the new Photos app without that HD plugged in, it says it cannot find the library. Why am I getting this error message if everything is in iCloud?
How do I change the "library location"? I still want a local copy on an external drive, but if everything is in iCloud, shouldn't the actual location of the library not matter?

That's not how it works, Photos still needs access to your library, Photos puts photos in the cloud but that's not what you see when you open photos, you see the photos stored locally, if they aren't there it won't work.

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