Moving Pictures from External HDD

I recently bought a new Mac Book Pro. I have quite number of pictures on an external HDD that I wish to move onto my new laptop, then on to my iPhone 5. How do I do this (step by step please)?

I would recommend restarting  your media migration and use Migration Assistant, it's the easiest and quickest method. AppleCare can help you through that, when you call let them know the history so they can help you start with a clean slate. If you have an Apple Store in your area I'd strongly recommend booking an appointment with a Genuis who can walk you through the process. If you want to go to the trouble of bringing your iMac and EHD with you they will also help you.

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    I have Maverick 10.9.2, iPhoto 9.5.1, the external HDD is ExFAT formatted.
    ExFAT is your problem. iPhoto requires the iPhoto Library to be on a drive formatted MacOS Extended (Journaled).
    See these documents:  iPhoto: Issues with FAT32-formatted drives
    and Format external drives to Mac OS Extended before using with Aperture(or iPhoto)
    I created a new iPhoto Library on an external HDD. I had about 16 GB of photos there. I found the library blank (0 bytes) today. When I am trying to open the location from iPhoto nothing happens.
    What probably has happened is, that you created the library on that drive, but iPhoto could not write to it and wrote the image files to a temporary storage.   Check, if iPhoto created a new library in your Pictures folder instead. Did you reboot your Mac, since you imported the photos? If not, wait, unti you have checked the Caches and temporary directories, before you restart your mac, because that will erase any temporary files.

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  • Moving picture from laptop hard drive to larger external hard drive

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  • IPhoto crashes on opening after moving library to external HDD

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    I think it unlikely that a permissions issue is the cause of the crashing, but it might be some damaged jpeg files. See how you get on with the above.
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  • Moving images from external HD to internal - lost metadata (mac)

    got myself in a bit of a pickle here...
    got a new imac - and upgraded from LR2 to LR4
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  • HT1229 Can i move the iPhoto folder onto an external HDD? Will it work the same way after moving onto an external HDD? do I then need to have the external connected at all times, even when I don't use iPhoto?

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    yes
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