Can I move my pictures in iPhoto from my system disk to an external drive like I can with iMovie?

Can anyone help me migrate my digital photo collection from iPhoto on my system drive to an external drive to free up space on the system drive.

By default the iPhoto library is in your pictures folder. It is a SQLite database and must always be treated as a single entity. Drag it intact as a single entity to an external drive formatted Mac OS extended (journaled), depress the option key, launch iPhoto and use the select library command to select the new location. Once it is fully tested you can delete the old library
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