Aperture cannot open iphoto library

on trying to open my iphoto libraries on my external hard disc, aperture says the system is not supported. both are up to date and i can open them in iphoto. what could be the problem?
i use a mac air and a lacie hard disc.

hi terence, thanks for reacting. it's about the file system on the hard disk and i don't know about the format of the disk itself. will have to ask my better half tomorrow when he's awake as it belongs to him. all i can tell you is that we are dedicated mac users.

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