Questions on backing up photos

I'm fairly new to IPhoto (and Mac) so I appreciate any help you can give me. I thought I had too many photos in IPhoto (approx 10,000) so I decided to save all of 2006 to a hard drive. I just copied the whole IPhoto Library folder to the hard drive. Done.
So now when I back up my IPhoto Library I'm assuming that it will replace what I have on the hard drive and then I would lose all of 2006. I brought my 2006 back to Iphoto under another user name I created on my Mac so I would get it all confused in case it didn't put them back right where they were originally. Make sense? Anyway. Now I'm lost. As you most likely are too from reading what I've done. So if I back up my Iphoto library will it include the 2006 from my 2nd user account? Or do I import 2006 from my hard drive back to my original user account where all of my pics are? I just want to back up my photos and not lose what I already have on my hard drive. Please help me make sense of this. Thanks in advance.

issier
Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
Rename one of those library folders - Call it iPhoto Library Folder 2 or something.
Use iPhoto Library Manager to merge the two libraries so that all your pics are in one library.
When you have ALL in one library, copy that to the external disk.
Now you have two full copies.
On your laptop, remove the pics that you don't want on it - put them in the iPhoto trash and empty the trash.
Now you have your full library on the external and a sub-set on the laptop.
As you add pics to the laptop, you can use iPhoto Library Manager to move the pics/albums to the full library on the external, and so, keep it up-to-date.
Regards
TD

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