How do I move and operate iPhoto from an EHD

Need to free up space on IHD - want to move iPhoto (11 - 9.5.1) to EHD - have over 24K photos/videos. I just purchased iPhoto Library Manager (sweet!) and have cleaned up my photos/videos and broken down into 12 different libraries. How do I implelment the transition to placing my libraries on an EHD (WD My Passport Studio) and operating iPhoto from there and deleting from my MacBk Pro (Mavericks)? Also, backup that EHD library with my Time Machine Backups. I've read many articles but just not getting it - especially cannot find how to operate iPhoto from an EHD. Are the libraries going to show duplicated with backups, etc. and become confusing..... need help! Thanks!

Your question is rather convoluted and not clear
First off having 12 libraries is really not a good idea but if you want to do that it certainly is yoru choice - I strongly recommend you reconsider - a single library is almost always the best way to operate
If you really =want 12 librearies then the following instructions must be followed for each of them -
Moving the iPhoto library is safe and simple - quit iPhoto and drag the iPhoto library intact as a single entity to the external drive - depress the option key and launch iPhoto using the "select library" option to point to the new location on the external drive - fully test it and then trash the old library on the internal drive (test one more time prior to emptying the trash)
And be sure that the External drive is formatted Mac OS extended (journaled) (iPhoto does not work with drives with other formats) and that it is always available prior to launching iPhoto
And backup soon and often - having your iPhoto library on an external drive is not a backup and if you are using Time Machine you need to check and be sure that TM is backing up your external drive
LN

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