Organizing With An External Harddrive

I enjoy making iDVD movies etc., but found my Apple notebook running out of hard drive space. An Apple salesperson suggested I transfer my photos to an external hard drive, and then "re-import" only the photos I wanted to use in creating an iDVD. I successfully moved all my photos to an external hard drive - but find it tough, if not practically impossible, to find in the external hard drive the photos I want to reimport and use - they are not filed under my personal album name, but use numbers that seem to have little rhyme or reason. Could anyone kindly offer any advice on my workflow, or other suggestion, to make this process work better for me so I can more readily find photos stored in the external hard drive. Thanks in advance for your help.

Douglas:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. I'm thinking that the salesperson meant copying your entire iPhoto Library folder to your external HD and operate it from there. You would do that by launching iPhoto with the Option key depressed and the when asked, navigate to the external HD and select the iPhoto Library folder. You can then delete the iPhoto Library folder you have in your Pictures folder to free up HD space. Then when in iDVD you would go to the Settings->Media->photos window and select the photos from albums in your iPhoto library and drag them into the slideshow organization window. Here's an Apple KB document about moving the library to a different location: Moving iPhoto Library Folder to New Location.
As far as free space is concerned it's widely recommended that you have a minimum of 15% or 10G, whichever is greater, free space on your boot drive. Here's another method to regain some real estate on your boot drive:
1 - run either Cache Out, OnyX or Mac Sweeper to clean out the various cache and archived log files.
2 - run Monolingual to remove the unneeded language modules. I saved 900+MB the first time I did it.
Hope this has been of some help. Good luck.
OT

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