Quick Multiple Library Question.

Hi all,
My wife's iPhoto library is hitting 60gigs. Time to split it up. My goal is to keep only this last year (2011) on her laptop and have years 2001-2010 in a separate library on and external HD. Now this library is ten plus years of cropping, adjusting, tagging, organizing and other heavy editing, so I'm trying to find a way to do this without reimporting the originals and modified folders and setting the whole thing back to square one...
My question is this:
Can I duplicate her existing iPhoto library and then just simply rename it?
I'd move the renamed duplicate to the external HD, then she can just delete years 2001-20010 within the library on her laptop and then delete 2011 pics within the external HD one.
That way all her events and folders and edits stay intact, right? 
Thanks in advance,
Derrick

Make sure the external is formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
Here's one way to do what you want:
1. Quit iPhoto.
2. Copy the iPhoto Library from your Pictures Folder to the external drive.
Now you have two full copies of the Library. To choose between them:  Hold down the option (or alt)  key and launch iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library'
3. On the Internal Library, remove the pics you don't want with you all the time.
Now you have one full library on the external and another smaller sub-set on the Internal.
A couple of comments:
a: Managing Multiple Libraries - including moving pics/albums/rolls and metadata between them - is greatly facilitated by using iPhoto Library Manager
b: When you're removing the unwanted pics from the Internal Library you need to delete them in batches of about 100 or so. Trashing more at one time can cause problems with the database.
c: Remember you need a back up on another disk for that Library on the External.
Regards
TD

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    > OR
    > Make 5 symbols with 1 layer and 50 frames?? (to be used
    all at once)
    >
    > Hopefully, my question is not too confusing. I'm
    basically asking what's
    > better to do: use one large symbol by itself or many
    smaller symbols at once.
    >
    > It's important to me because eventually i could have all
    7 of my cartoon
    > characters on stage at once which would mean using 7
    large sized symbols at
    > once or 35 smaller symbols at once
    >
    > The symbols are all mostly graphic symbols. And, when
    i'm done, my library
    > will be containing hundreds of symbols.
    >
    > Note: I'll be converting the movie to video format so
    internet loading time
    > isn't so much my concern as is general playback and
    avoiding "slowdown". I want
    > to avoid lag at all costs.
    >
    > Thank you for the feedback in advance!!! :)
    >
    > Frank
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