Aperture Accept Backed-Up iPhoto Library?

My iPhoto app is glitched (I have a separate discussion/question going elsewhere about that). I need some of the photos for a project I'm working on and need them soon. The iPhoto library is backed-up to Carbonite.
Is it possible to restore the iPhoto library into Aperture? They are currently downloading to a file on the desktop.

Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
1. Quit iPhoto
2. Copy the iPhoto Library from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk.
3. Hold down the option (or alt) key while launching iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new location. From that point on this will be the default location of your library.
4. Test the library and when you're sure all is well, trash the one on your internal HD to free up space.
Regards
TD

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It sounds like iPhoto was running in Referenced mode.* Was it?
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