Can you ... Point iPhoto to store pics to an external drive ?

Using Aperture I don't have much time for iPhoto but my daughter in law has a mini mac and wants to store her pics to an external drive to save space on the mini mac is this possible.

Yes, very easy to do. Here are directions from Lori deloretto (thanks, Lori!):
iPhoto, the application, must stay in your Applications folder.
The iPhoto Library folder, on the other hand, can be on an external.
Copy the ENTIRE iPhoto Library folder (found in ~/Pictures/) to a Mac formatted external drive.
Launch iPhoto while holding down the Option key.
At the prompt, choose to open another library.
Navigate to the library on the external and highlight it.
Hit the "open" button
iPhoto will open the library on the external and from now on will use this library to import images too. This will now be your working library. Make sure everything is working correctly and everything is fine in the library.
You can then delete the library on the internal if you wish.
Also have a look at Apple's instructions here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93603
That should get you what you want.

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