Manage iPhoto on internal & external HD

Just bought a 15" rMBP (256GB HD capacity) and haven't opened yet. I've backed up my existing 2010 MBP iPhoto's libary to 1.5 TB external and plan to leave it on the external since just the iPhoto library alone is almost 200GB. I would like to use my rMBP as a working space for photos and then offload to the external's iPhoto library.
For example, let's say I take 200 photos over the weekend and import to iPhoto on the internal HD on the rMBP. Is there a simple way to "merge" these 200 photos into the internal HD's iPhoto to the iPhoto library on the external? I'd like to avoid managing two separate libraries.
I plan on purchasing either Aperture or Lightroom. Will either of these help manage the internal and external libraries syncing abilities?
Any help is much appreciated. Thanks!

Only using Aperture or iPhoto Library Manager - http://www.fatcatsoftware.com/iplm/ -
Lightroom can not - it can not access the iPhoto library or use photos in iPhoto
LN

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Hi - I'm trying to clear space on my 60 gig power book g4 and was wondering if I can run iphoto off an external drive (where I would house many - but not all - photos). Currently, copying the photos to the drive loses all the iphoto info. Thanks for any help - and I'm open to suggestions as to other methods to clear off hard drive. (Have the same with itunes - I lose all the info when I "copy" files to the external drive). Thanks!

Quit iPhoto and drag your iPhoto library to the external drive (just one big drag - do not drag components)
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How exactly did you "Move a good bit of you photos"? the iphoto library mot ever be modified - it is a single entity and must always be kept intact
the directions you were given for moving you library moved it all
You can archive the older images to the external. But there is no reason not to have the whole library on the external. I have all of mine of externals.
Make sure the drive is formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
1. Quit iPhoto
2. Copy the iPhoto Library from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk.
Now you have two full versions of the Library.
3. On the Internal library, trash the Events you don't want there
Now you have a full copy of the Library on the External and a smaller subset on the Internal
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As a general rule: when deleting photos do them in batches of about 100 at a time. iPhoto can baulk at trashing large numbers at one go.
You can choose which Library to open: Hold down the option (or alt) key key and launch iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library'
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a while ago my ibook filled up, and so i bought an external hard drive. i then dragged the photos across onto it, deleted them off my i book. no problems.
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sorry for being unclear.
i will try and explain again.
i still have my iphoto library on my internal drive.
i initially dragged and dropped the photos from iphoto onto the external drive and deleted them off my internal drive to free up space.
then i read how i better way to do it would be to drag my iphoto library from the finder, onto my external drive, because then i would be able to open it from iphoto. so i did that and when i pressed the option key whilst iphoto was setting up, accessed my iphoto file on my external drive.
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Trying to copy iPhoto Library to external hard drive for backup. Error message: The Finder can't complete the operation because some data in "iPhoto Library" can't be read or written (Error code -36).

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ioErr
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Note 2: Your current library will be left untouched for further attempts at a fix if so desired.
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