Moved file now only thumbnails

Question

i-Photo 6.
Back in October, I moved my Pictures file over to my external hard drive to free up disc space on my PowerBook G4.
To replace this, I created a new file: Home/i-Photo Nov 05. Everything worked fine. I have had two or more updates since then.
However, a few days ago, after reading that the correct path should be:
Home/Pictures/iPhotoLibrary
I moved iPhoto Nov 05 back to to Home/Pictures/
Now, when I click Library or any folder in my iPhoto, all I get is a grey screen with dotted lines where the thumbnails should be with the slide number under each dotted rectangle.
I am tempted to move the file iPhoto Nov 05 out of Pictures/ and back to Home/iPhoto Nov 05 but I hesitate to do this in case I screw things up even more.
I would appreciate some advice. Thank you.

Answer 1

Hi blaxland,
You can have your iPhoto in places other than the Pictures folder. Your problem is that you moved the library and you didn't tell iPhoto where you moved it.
Hold down the Option key while launching iPhoto and keep it held down until you get a message screen. In that screen, choose to open another library and navigate to your library, highlight it and then click "open"
Hopefully this will get your photos back.