My external drive is screwed up

hi i was uploading pictures into iphoto witch is on my external drive and i accidentally unpluged the drive while it was uploading the files and now everything is screwed up this is the massage i get when i try and open iphoto from this drive The iPhoto Library is on a locked volume. Relaunch iPhoto when the volume has read/write accees or relaunch iPhoto with <option> key held down any ideas please help

kga943 wrote:
i was uploading pictures into iphoto witch is on my external drive and i accidentally unpluged the drive while it was uploading the files and now everything is screwed up this is the massage i get when i try and open iphoto from this drive The iPhoto Library is on a locked volume.
First I'd use Disk Utility to do a "repair disk" operation on that drive. Next I'd hold down the Command and Option keys on the keyboard while launching iPhoto so that it will try to rebuild its library.

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