I-Photo Library: How to move a Iphoto Library from 1 hard drive to another?

The hard drive that I have my I-Photo library on is running out of space and is my
start-up drive. I want to move the i-photo library from the start-up drive to my storage drive which has plenty of storage space. My Machine is G4 desktop having
OX10.5.8 operating system.I would like to know how to do this. I tried searching for i-photo library Manager but could not find it

Simply:
1. Quit iPhoto
2. Copy the iPhoto Library from your Pictures Folder to the Other 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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