Transferring applications to external hard drive

I have a macbook and my startup disk was full because of so many photos and videos. So I purchased an external hardrive in order to load those items onto it. I thought I had done it right, but when I go to add more items to my itunes or iphoto (both applications I put on the external hard drive) it keeps saying there is no more room on your disk. So I think it is still trying to load it onto the startup disk instead of the external hard drive. Please advise on how I can get this to run through the external hardrive. thanks!!

It is likely that after you copied your photos and video to the external hard drive, you neglected to then erase them from your internal hard drive. Take those files and put them in the trash. Then empty the trash. This should free up your disk space.
It is not recommended to run applications from an external hard drive, as whenever the operating system needs to update those applications it will not be able to find them.
Best of luck.

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