Importing iPhoto albums from a dvd?

To free up space on my hard drive I burned my iPhoto Library to a dvd. But I still want to be able to access the photos on the dvd in the future. As a test I tried to import an album from the dvd and I get this message (couldn't create: users/xxx/Pictures/iPhoto Library/xxx/xxx/xx/xxx.jpg) for each picture in the album and then this (Unreadable Files 3: The following files could not be imported [they may be an unrecognized file type or the files may not contain valid data.]) I sort of understand this since the album folders only contain aliases of the actual jpgs.
My question, then, is how does one import albums from burned media back into iPhoto? Mind you, I'm still using iPhoto 2, so perhaps this is an easier task in more recent versions? Thanks in advance for any help.

How did you burn the library to the DVD disc. If it was by dragging the entire iPhoto Library folder to the disc and burning via the Finder you won't be able to open it from within iPhoto. To be able to do that you must have selected the items to be burned and then use the Burn button in the lower right hand corner. That's the only way you'll be able to see the items in iPhoto.
To correct that you could copy that iPhoto Library folder to your desktop and open it with iPhoto (launch with the Option key depressed and select the desktop library folder). Now you can select that entire library and burn it again using the Burn button. That disc will be readable by iPhoto when it's inserted into the drive with iPhoto running.
OT

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Message was edited by: Kappy

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