How to move all Photos to external Drive/make that default storage

I have stored all of my IPhotos on my internal Mac drive. This was a dumb mistake cause now it is full. So I would like to make my tera drive the default location for all future photos and move all existing photos to the tera drive as well.
How do I do that without losing all my photos???
Thanks
Dennis

First: Make sure this “tera drive” is formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Otherwise you will have problems with your Library.
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.
Regards
TD

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