Storing on external hard drive

When you store on an external hard drive, do you store the iphoto library or copy of the individual photos?
I noticed that when I do the library, and try to open a photo, there is a exclamation point instead of the image. When I open the actual photo, it opens.
Want to overhaul my storage and make sure I have everything saved properly.
Thanks.

What are you storing on the External drive?
If you are running a Managed library then to move the Library to an external:
1. Quit iPhoto
2. Copy the iPhoto Library from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk.
3. Hold down the option (or alt) key while launching iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new location. From that point on this will be the default location of your library.
4. Test the library and when you're sure all is well, trash the one on your internal HD to free up space.
If you are running a Referenced Library things are more complicated.
Are you running a Managed or a Referenced Library?
A Managed library is the default setting, and iPhoto copies files into the iPhoto Library when Importing
A Referenced Library, is when you made a change at iPhoto -> Preferences -> Advanced and iPhoto is NOT copying the files into the iPhoto Library when importing.
Regards
TD

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