I cannot open iphoto from my external hard drive.  its there but when i open it, it just opens my current iphoto library.

anyone have any clues about this?    I backed up my iphoto library last november.  Now i would like to open it up and use some of those images.  but when i plug in my external HD and try to open the iphoto library, all that happens is it opens my current iphoto library.    i know all of my images are on the HD bc i can control click the iphoto library in the HD and click 'show ackage contents' and all images are there.  plus the amount of space is correct.   I do not understand why i cannot pull up the images???   any help would be greatly appreciated     there has to be an explination, as well as a better way to retrieve all those images other than dragging each file indivdually and resaving it back to the computer.

The way to switch default libraries in iPhoto is to depress the option key and launch iPhoto - use the select library command to switch to a new default library which will remain the library until you switch again
And note that if you make changes to your backup library it no longer a backup but a different library
LN

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