Option button doesn't open iphoto library choices when depressed

Specs of my Mac are:
Mac OSX
Version 10.7.5
processor 2.4 GHz
Memory 4 GB
External Hard drive are:
WD My Passport for mac 2TB (which I formatted using the disk utility to Mac OS X Extended
I bought an external hard drive to move my photos from iphoto off my Mac Book Pro (its' about 2 years old) so that I can free up some hard drive space.
I photo often freezes as I have over 22,000 photos on it. It opens fine though. I tried copying it to the external but when I try restarting it holding down the option button no window to choose the libraray it opens.
Any ideas why this isnt working?
Command option does work to repair iphoto but I'm not sure what do with that or if that can help me to fix this problem
Any suggestions are welcome and appreciated.

Do not delete anything until you know exactly what you have and what you want to keep
what exactly is your question?
you posted
I tried copying it to the external but when I try restarting it holding down the option button no window to choose the libraray it opens.
Any ideas why this isnt working?
I answered
double click on the library on the EHD to launch it
and now you ant to trash things which has nothing to do with either post
you also posted
External Hard drive are:
WD My Passport for mac 2TB (which I formatted using the disk utility to Mac OS X Extended
I bought an external hard drive to move my photos from iphoto off my Mac Book Pro (its' about 2 years old) so that I can free up some hard drive space.
To do that
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
LN

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Have you tried doing what it says?
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This is also true for emailing with Web-based services. However, if you're using Gmail you can use iPhoto2GMail
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If you use a Cocoa-based Browser such as Safari, you can drag the pics from the iPhoto Window to the Attach window in the browser.
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You can set Photoshop (or any image editor) as an external editor in iPhoto. (Preferences -> General -> Edit Photo: Choose from the Drop Down Menu.) This way, when you double click a pic to edit in iPhoto it will open automatically in Photoshop or your Image Editor, and when you save it it's sent back to iPhoto automatically. This is the only way that edits made in another application will be displayed in iPhoto.
Note that iPhoto sends a copy+ of the file to Photoshop, so when you save be sure to use the Save command, not Save As... If you use Save As then you're creating a new file and iPhoto has no way of knowing about this new file. iPhoto is preserving your original anyway.
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