Moving not copying pictures to iPhoto 9.5.3?

Help! I ran out of room on my Macbook for all my pics. I bought an external hard drive and copied my Iphoto Library from my mac to my external hard drive. I found this action COPIED my file didn't move it. I then went back to my mac and deleted the iphoto Library. I then realized that for some reason in the copy it made a whole bunch of separate files for some of the photos, not all ( not sure why). I thought ok, I will just import these to my iphoto library. I went into Iphoto pointed to the external hard drive to find the Iphoto Library and THEN did an import of all these extra pictures. When I did that I noticed that they didn't go away on my external hard drive. It seems it just made copies. I tried again. This time Iphoto told me that these pics were duplicates. So I thought the pics were indeed imported and these were just copies, so I deleted a bunch of them. When I went back to the pictures it is now saying. " can't find orginal pictures" Well that's because I thought it imported the files. Seems it didn't and now I have lost those pics forever. I don't have the room to store pics in several places... How do I MOVE pics into iphoto and not just have it copy. BTW: I did try the command key and then drag them to the iphoto icon. NOPE, still copies.

I'm not clear on what you did or what is going on and since you state that you have iPhoto '11 version 9.5.3 which I am not aware exists (the latest version is 9.5.1) and you state that you have OS X 10.5.7 which would not allow the installation of any iPhoto 9.5.x version
I am guessing that maybe you imported your iPHoto library fromt he EHD back into iPhto but that is only a guess
It sounds lik you need to restr=ore your backup of the iPhoto library from before you did any of this and start over and do it correctly
the correct way to move your iPhtoo libreary to an external drive is
Moving the iPhoto library is safe and simple - quit iPhoto and drag the iPhoto library intact as a single entity to the external drive - depress the option key and launch iPhoto using the "select library" option to point to the new location on the external drive - fully test it and then trash the old library on the internal drive (test one more time prior to emptying the trash)
And be sure that the External drive is formatted Mac OS extended (journaled) (iPhoto does not work with drives with other formats) and that it is always available prior to launching iPhoto
And backup soon and often - having your iPhoto library on an external drive is not a backup and if you are using Time Machine you need to check and be sure that TM is backing up your external drive
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