New Imports to iPhoto Are Saving to My External Hard Drive

Recently purchased a Buffalo NAS 2TB external hard drive. I didn't realize at the time of purchase that Apple doesn't support NAS drives; although, I did find ChronoSync software that would allow me to back up my iMac to the Buffalo hard drive.
After a successful backup of music, documents, and photos, for some reason when I upload new pics they are now saved on the Buffalo external hard drive and NOT my iMac which is where they should be going. When setting up the backup to the Buffalo originally, I only selected the folders that I wanted to backup (music, photos, documents, and applications). I made sure I only wanted those backed up; there was no need to backup my entire internal hard drive.
When uploading new pics to iPhoto, I never selected anything to tell my iMac to save all new photos to the Buffalo external hard drive.
So now when I open iPhoto on my iMac, it winds up missing three or four event folders that I recently uploaded (Christmas pics, etc) but when I open the "iPhoto Library" icon on my Buffalo hard drive, it shows everything (even the three or four event folders that my iMac "iPhoto Library" is missing).
Any thoughts of what the problem is? When backing up my iMac, all I wanted to do was save my already existing pictures to an external hard drive. What I didn't want is for the Buffalo hard drive to "save" the entire iPhoto application (which is what I think it did).
With all the problems I've been having with this NAS hard drive, I've since purchased a non-NAS hard drive and will be using Time Machine from here on out! The things you learn......
Any help would be appreciated! Thanks in advance! Happy New Year!
Gtrcoop

iPhoto saves the files to the default Library when you import, and the default library is the last one opened.
IF the one on your iMac is the default library and the files are turning up on the back up, the likely candidate for responsibility is the back up app, I'm afraid. I'd check the settings on that.
Regards
TD

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