Looking for a Step by Step to place Aperture Library on External

Can anyone direct me to step by step directions on how to export my Aperture library to an external hard drive?
I've seen rambling threads that touch on it of course but they refer to "Managed' or 'Referenced' and other terms that I am not sure how to check if my library are those.
I am on a iMac with only a 500 gig drive and my Aperture library is 100 Gigs of that drive! I'd like to place it on an external for obvious reasons. Crazy that Apple doesn't make this a WHOLE lot easier.
Thanks in advance for your input.

Aperture is an extremely capable and powerful program. It is not for beginners or for those who are not interested in learning how to use it. Just my humble opinion.
It is important that you understand the difference between Managed Masters and Referenced Masters. Of course, you must know what a Master is.
It is easy to tell which of which you have in your Library. Aperture uses Badges to inform you. (Badges are shown in the Metadata Overlays, as well as on the Metadata tab of the Inspector. There are seven Metadata Overlays: you should customize each of them to meet your needs.)
You can also filter Photos view using the Rule "File Status". The selections there are straightforward.
100 GB is a moderately large Library. The recommended method of lessening the storage burden a large Library places on your system drive is to convert some or all of your Images' Masters from Managed to Referenced. Aperture makes this easy to do.
It is possible to run an Aperture Library from an external drive. The faster the drive the better. I have done this over FW400 with 5200 rpm drives, but the minimum I would recommend is FW800 with a 7200 rpm drive with a sizable cache.
Putting the Library on an external drive is less desirable than putting just some or all of that Library's Images' Masters on an external drive and leaving the Library on your system drive.
Moving the Library is simple and, in point of fact, couldn't be easier. (You don't want to export your Library; you want to move it.) With Aperture closed, select the Library in Finder (the extension is "aplibrary"). Move it where you want it to be. Double-click it to launch Aperture and load the Library from its new location. Now every time you launch Aperture, it will load that Library (as long as it is on-line).
The User Manual is here. It is an excellent resource. I have highlighted in orange above some of the terms you will need to know. I strongly suggest looking each of them up in the Manual (note the Glossary at the end of the Manual), and reading the first seven chapters which introduce the program and provide a worthy map for your self-teaching.
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