Exporting Library to external HD

Have a huge library of images in iphoto 2.0. I heard exporting these images to a external HD is the best way to preserve these images while freeing HD capacity on my Powerbook G4? If so, can anyone provide me with the steps to accomplish this task?
The images have been sorted into a number of albums. Will that make a difference in executing this task?

Open the Pictures folder on your hard disk, drag the entire iPhoto Library folder to the external drive, and then use this software to create a symbolic link that points to the new location of the folder, renaming the original folder and placing the link where the folder used to be. If everything works properly after a few days, delete the library from the hard disk.
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There's a slider lower right of the iPhoto Window - drag it left.
Why are you exporting to Print?
when I attempt to upload new pictures from my camera it produces an error.
What does the error say?
As for accessing your pics:
There are many, many ways to access your files in iPhoto:
For 10.5 users: You can use any Open / Attach / Browse dialogue. On the left there's a Media heading, your pics can be accessed there. Apple-Click for selecting multiple pics.
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To upload to a site that does not have an iPhoto Export Plug-in the recommended way is to Select the Pic in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Export and export the pic to the desktop, then upload from there. After the upload you can trash the pic on the desktop. It's only a copy and your original is safe in iPhoto.
This is also true for emailing with Web-based services. If you're using Gmail you can use THIS
If you use Apple's Mail, Entourage, AOL or Eudora you can email from within iPhoto. With 10.5 you can access the Library from the New Message Window in Mail:
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If you use a Cocoa-based Browser such as Safari, you can drag the pics from the iPhoto Window to the Attach window in the browser.
Or, if you want to access the files with iPhoto not running, then create a Media Browser using Automator (takes about 10 seconds) or use THIS
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1. *Drag and Drop*: Drag a photo from the iPhoto Window to the desktop, there iPhoto will make a full-sized copy of the pic.
2. *File -> Export*: Select the files in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Export. The dialogue will give you various options, including altering the format, naming the files and changing the size. Again, producing a copy.
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This Apple recommendation might help you: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301748

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Image of folder structure and explanation of different iTunes versions (turingtest2 post) - https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-7392 - and making an iTunes library portable.

Steps to export iPhotos to external HD

steps to export iPhotos to external HD, please ? thanx

Very vague question...
There's no such thing as "iPhotos". There's an iPhoto app, there's an iPhoto Library, the Library contains photos.
You can move the Library to an external drive.
You can export individual photos from the Library to an external.
But what you want to do is not clear.
To move the Library:
Make sure the drive is formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
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.
To export the Photos:
File -> Export
This User Tip
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4921
has details of the options in the Export dialogue.
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TD

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thanks for the help tt2, really usefull!
Just to be sure i'm doing things right, let me explain more in detail what is my actual setup to know how your explainations applies to it.
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Actually, my setup involved that all my dj music (1600 tracks in wav format) and my iTunes music are on another external HD, we will call it ExHD2.
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regards

Problems exporting library from iPhoto

Hi,
I'm trying to export my iPhoto library but when i go to export to my external hard drive it gives me an error message and tells me it can't make volumes.... what do i do?
I think there could be an error within my library.
Any help is much appreciated!

Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Check to see where you iPhoto Library is located. Make sure it's in the Pictures folder. Next, go to the Finder->Go->Go to folder menu option and put in /volumes. Check to see if there's an alias file to your external hard drive in there. If not you can try creating an alias file for your external HD and put it in there.
As a workaround if you can't get it to export directly to the external HD you'll have to export to the Desktop and manually copy over to the external.
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I've created an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger or later), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. It's compatible with iPhoto 6 and 7 libraries and Tiger and Leopard. iPhoto does not have to be closed to run the application, just idle. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.
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