Moving images from computer hard drive to external hard drive

Hi all,
Currently trying aperture2. I'd like to move my photo library from my computer's hard drive to an external hard drive. Not quite sure how to do it and would rather not end up deleting everything. I'm sure its pretty straightforward but thought I would ask first. Thanks.

both of those will do it ... it is just a matter of which method ...
being that you are on a laptop (?) i would suggest the referenced route ... only because you can create image previews and travel around with those, and not have to lug the external along, yet still be able to "see" the images and work with metadata - just not adjustments ...
your library would remain on your laptop's hdd, but the actual image files would stay on the ext ...
check these articles for info:
http://www.bagelturf.com/aparticles/ref/index.php

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