I want to access photos from an external hard drive

i have upgraded to a mac air, i had an old mac book about 6 years old..... i backed up my old computer with the aim of accessing the photos on the new mac air, but I can't access the photos I need....only the original back up

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    I'm desperate.  I recently purchased a new iMac to store our 50,000 plus photos, many large files from our DSLR camera.  I previously stored them on a Maxtor hard drive linked to a very early MacBook Pro, purchased in Jan. 2006.  Photo organization and storage was a persistent headache on that machine, so I hoped that housing the photos locally would help.  It didn't.  I imported the entire external hard drive library after creating a new local library to house them on the iMac and they are completly disorganized.  Prior unedited photos have reemerged.  Chronology is lost.  I basically have 50K photos and no organization at all.  Short of returning the iMac is there a way out of this mess?

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  • Why are my photos from my external hard drive grayed on in iphoto? they appear ok in the preview app.

    Hi
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    I recently bought a new Macbook Pro and transferred all of my photos from a Passport external hard drive into iPhoto.
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    Thanks for the help!

    No idea - how about some information
    What version of iPhtoo? Of the OS? What exactly did you do and how did you do it?
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    The most basic answer it to launch iPhoto and drag the photos form the External drive to the iPhoto window which imports them into iPhoto ahas no effect on the photos on the EHD
    LN

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    Did you use Time Machine to backup to your external hard drive?  If so you will need to use TIme Machine to restore the file.  Post back for more info.

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