I don't see my Iphoto Library on my external hardisk

I have to Iphoto library on my external hardisk. I only can see one when I start Iphoto with the option button press up. Where is the other library?
Can anyone tell me how can I see the library to have access to my photos?

Is there any chance you launched iPhoto while the external hard drive was not available? If so you may have created a virtual EHD - if so unmount your EHD and in the finder go menu ==> go to folder == /Volumes and if you see your EHD there drag it to the desktop - then remount it and launch iPhoto and see if you see both libraries
LN

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