Incomplete iphoto backup from external drive

Hi. I just bought a Western Digital My Book to store my IPhoto library since I am out of space on my internal hard drive. I successfully copied my IPhoto library onto the new drive. I set up Time Machine to backup my library onto my Time Capsule. When I looked into the backup drive, only some of the photos are backed up. It seems very random and several of the photos have a blank thumbnail. When I try to restore those photos, it does not work. Furthermore, when trying to solve the problem, I attempted to delete random photos from my IPhoto library to see if I could restore them from my backup. When I deleted certain photos from my library, it also deleted those from the back up disk. That is just crazy and I don't know why that is happening. If anyone has any advice for me, I would appreciate it very much. Thank you. P.S. My old back ups (from before I moved the library) are fine and also IPhoto has been closed during the backups so that is not the issue.

caliscrapper wrote:
When I deleted certain photos from my library, it also deleted those from the back up disk.
No, deleting an original won't delete the backup. (Time Machine will, eventually, delete the backup copy though).
Are you sure you're looking at the backups of the new version of the library (on the external HD), instead of the ones from your internal HD?
Try this: Start iPhoto. Make sure it's looking at the iPhoto library on the external HD, then select +File > Browse Backups..+ from iPhoto's menubar.

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