Move PC  pse catalogs from external hard drive to Mac

My PC died, but have pse 10 catalogs on external hard drive.  How can I move them from the external drive to my new MacBook Pro?

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The photos have already been migrated to the Mac.  I have pse 13 for Mac on disk, and was planning to load it, but haven't yet.  
Can I load pse 13 on the Mac, and read the pse 10  catalogs from the ehd with the mac?
I don't know about Mac specific features (I am using Windows 7), but it looks like you are using the word 'catalog' in a different meaning than the Organizer definition.
First, to have a common understanding of your situation, let's see the difference between an organizer 'catalog' and what I call your 'picture library'.
Your library is all your picture files, generally a folder tree on your disk(s).
Your catalog is a special folder managed by the organizer. Imagine you buy a catalog for a paintings museum. It's an independent booklet in which you'll find all the necessary information about all the physical paintings (the library), the location of each one, it's properties (author, size, theme, date...) as well as a small image to show the painting. You find various indexes to help you find by title, author, theme, dates... It's the same for an organizer catalog. There is a booklet (a folder) containing a database for the properties and location of the files, another for the thumbnails and other accessory files and subfolders. You find the location of that folder (each separate catalog has its own folder) by looking at the menu Help/System Information.
I understand you have a copy of your library on the new computer, but what about the catalog(s) folders?

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