Iphoto 08 with External HD

Is there anyway I can use Iphoto with the Iphoto libary on an external HD? Keeping my Mac. Hardrive free from megs of picture?

theycallmefreddy wrote:
As regards to your post. If I set that up on my external can I open one on my MacBook Pro when I'm traveling? Then go back to the external later? If that is the case and It can be done, can you merge 2 libraries together?
Thanks in advanced.
Sort of - you will have two libaries - one on your EHD and one on your MB - iPhoto does NOT support merging libraries but iPhoto Library Manager (http://www.fatcatsoftware.com/iplm/) does
LN

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