How can I find my iphoto pictures from a recovered hard drive.

My macbook pro suffered an attack of spilled wine. Its unrecoverable as smoke and flashes were seen when it was powered up afterwards. I removed the hard drive to recover all my files but I can't find the file with my iphotos library in it. How can I find it or where should I look

It actually helps if you provide details first - your original question was how to find your photos - now it turns out that you knew where they were but were trying to open the library with an older version of iPhoto
older versions of iPhoto can not open newer libraries - iPhoto library manager can rebuild a library for an older version
Or you can copy the originals (or masters depending on the version of the newer iPhoto which you do not share) folder to the desktop and then create a totally new library using just the photos
LN

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