My Book for Mac photo retrieval

I have WD My Book for Mac as an external hard drive for my photos. I just selected to retrieve all my photos "back to the original location on my computer". But they are not back in iPhoto. Do I need to import photos into iPhoto from a location on my hard drive?

Hello,
Can you please provide the model number of your drive.
I haven't seen this case with a USB drive on a Mac.
Have you tried resetting the unit.
Is the drive showing on the disk utilities.

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You should first repartition and format the drive. Most likely it is setup for use on Windows. Try this:
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