Can i transfer the "IPhoto Library" to another computer?

my main database for my photos (20,000+) is on my iMac. i tried to tranfer the photos as they were placed on the iMac wirelessly to my MacBook each time i imported new photos, but i've lost track enough that i'm a few thousand off between the 2 computers. can i just transfer and replace the iPhoto Library between the 2 computers and have all of the photos transferred and replaced? or will something bad happen?

I've got a similar problem. I updated one of my iPhoto 7.1.5 Libraries (A1) on my desktop iMac (A), importing a group of pics and using them also to update a book that is in that library. I also had to modify their file names to make them fit in with some smart albums in that Library. I then closed iPhoto, and later re-opened it, using iPhoto Buddy to get to another library (A2), and then iPhoto Buddy again to get back to the Library (A1) that I had earlier modified, in which all the modifications were fine.
On a second iMac (B) attached by Ethernet through a router to the first iMac (A) I have a copy (B1) of Library (A1), and also run iPhoto 7.1.5. I needed the same modifications to that copy as I had made to A1. Rather than going through the routines that I had done with A1, I decided that I would just copy A1 onto machine B, and use it to replace B1. I did a direct copy by sharing B's desktop, copying A1 to the desktop, then deleted B1 from the pictures folder, and then replacing it with the copy of A1. However, when I tried to open the copy on B, the reasons for the copy (the pics I had imported to A1) were missing, as were all the mods I had subsequently done. A1 on A still opened OK with the extra pics and mods... but the copy on B was still effectively the original B1 file that (I thought) I had put in the trash, and subsequently emptied... i.e., the imports and mods had not survived the copy. I tried again using a pocket hard drive as intermediary, but still no joy, and I've tried the whole thing again a couple of times... but for some reason iPhoto on B is not recognising the newly imported pics, etc, and just shows me a library that is effectively the original B1. The file after import on B is the same size as when it leaves A, so the pics would appear to be going over. Why the !!! are they disappearing?

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