A photo database? On a Mac.

I'm doing it in Excel, but it's a monstrous job to create hyperlinks to hundreds of photo titles to view them, one, by one, by one.
I can't automate it in Excel for mac.
I've tried automate and macros, but none will simply:
take the selected photo-title from the list, copy and paste it into a search box, find the photo, select it, and generate a hyperlink.
I'd like to find some software that would make it possible to link up photo titles to their files to view in Preview without doing it one by one.
All the photos are in the same folder with names like 0001.jpg, 0002.jpg. It ought to be easier than this.
Any suggestions?

Lundberg, you're right. I was searching for databases that would accomodate photos. When I started searching for photo cataloguing everything fell into place. First I found I good cheap product called PIXA. A nice little cataloguing tool and it makes thumbnails so that you don't have to be connected to a particular drive to see the photos on that drive. Then I realized that since I pay for Creative Cloud, there might be a good cataloguing tool from Adobe. And I downloaded Lightroom. It's terrific. Everything I could ask and more. Thanks. L.

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how do you open a photo database file?

You have to tell us a whole lot more for us to help you.
You attached an article about rebuilding an iPhoto library, which is done on a Mac, not an iPad.
Exactly what are you trying to do and failing at?

Photos stored on my Mac's hard drive?

Where are my photos stored on my Mac's hard drive?

Note to users
Seriously it is ridiculous to use improper and unsupported ways to access your files - iPhoto is a SQLite database and direct access to the database contents is not supported - you should use the proper tools as described above - doing otherwise does not work well and endangers your photos as small errors on a user's part can damage the database and corrupt it causing dataloss
What you need a forum for it to explain to you haw to use the program since you do not bother to read the help information or take the tutorials
LN
PS also note that posting erronous suggestions on two year old threads is not really a smart idea either

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The other part of the upgrade message was a warning that once you upgraded you would no longer be able to open the library with the old version which is exaclty what you did and what happened when you choose to continue
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LN

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