Imovie won't find my iphoto library

Hi - a bit of help required.
I'm making a movie in iMovie '11. I have my iphoto library stored on an external hard drive. Since moving it onto the drive, iMovie won't find it, and so i can't seem to load any photos/iphoto videos directly in iMovie.
Has anyone else had this problem and know how to fix it? When i click on the photos tab, i just get the spinning lines icon which goes for ages, but never shoes my iphoto library.
If i create another iphoto library held on my macbook, then it works.
Any ideas??

Hi
iMovie can only find iPhoto libraries on the "Start-Up (Mac OS) Main Hard Drive" - it can not look outside this.
So alt. is
• Keep iPhoto Library with important photos on "Local drive"
• Create an external drive so that You can boot from it and keep iPhoto Library on this and then start from it.
Yours Bengt W

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