All my Photos are Missing- HELP!!!

So I was running out of disk space on my computer and I wanted to make sure my photos would not be lost so I copied my iphoto library to an external hard drive.
Then I went back to my hard drive on my mac and deleted my iphoto library thinking i could access it from my external drive. However, when I did this, the iphoto library on my external hard drive went gray, and now both the computer and the external drive say I have no pictures. Is there any way to recover them... it is the last 5 years of photos

kmkalmoe
Welcome to the Apple user discussion forums
I copied my iphoto library to an external hard drive.
Exactly how did you do this?
Have you launched iPhoto while depressing the option (alt) key and using the select library option to tell iPhoto where your iPhoto library is now?
the iphoto library on my external hard drive went gray
Could you explain this a bit more please?
now both the computer and the external drive say I have no pictures
Exactly what did you do to determine this?
Is there any way to recover them
Probably
It would help to know more abut where you are and what you have done do far - if you would answer the above it would help
LN

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