IPhoto Photos not visible in finder

After recently purchasing a new macbook, I hooked up my external hard drive which housed my old iphoto pics from my last mac - it automatically recovered or "retrieved" my old pics from the hard drive when I attempted to open the old iphoto file. Only problem is, I cannot access them to attach or download when using the finder menu from any of the new "photo" file locations. They have not been moved to the new photos folder (as in all media files seen at the bottom of the finder menu) even though I can see them when iphoto is open, and the old file will not allow access to view individual jpg files - can I drag and drop the old iphoto file into the new picture file? How do I access the files for use? Its frsutrating to be able to see them without being able to use them. Suggestions?

No - that is the solution
The problem is that you are attemptying to access the photos in an incorrct and unsupported way - It you use the correct supported method it works - which as you note works great
The way you always should have been accessing them - using the media browser - in every Open/upload/attach window on the left under media ==> photos ==> iPhoto
See the user tip on accessing yoru files in iPhoto for details on the various supported ways to access them
What your are doing has never been correct and has never been supported - when you do incorrect, unsupported things there may or may not work correctly - the supported method does work corrctly and using supported methods is the total solution to this
LN

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