How do I move photos back into my library?

At some point int the past, I managed (and I have no recolection how) to move some of the photos in my iPhoto library out of the library itself and onto an external drive. That is to say, the photo is part of the iPhoto library and available to view/edit, however the actual file does not reside on my internal hard disk in Pictures/iPhoto Library but on an external drive.
This was fine when I was using a desktop PC but on my laptop, it meands that some photos are unavailable to me when travelling as I do not have the external drive connected.
Is there an easy way to get the jpg files back into the iPhoto Library? I do not want to reimport them as the photos are already registered in the library, tagged and part of albums, and I do not want to have to recreate this work.
Any help greatly appreciated.
thanks
Darius

How are you at hacking SQL databases?
You've run a Referenced Library and you're trying to convert it to a Managed Library. In earlier versions this was quite straightforward as the relationship between iPhoto and the Referenced Images was done with aliases. Threfore to change all you needed to do was replace the alias with the image.
Not any more.
Now the app tracks the relationship directly in the database. As you have the files on one disk and the library on anotherm, the only way to get this to work is to hack the db to link the new locations of the file.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3216539?tstart=30
Discusses one users efforts to do what you want.
Regards
TD

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