Trying to view iPhoto from and old mac on an external drive

hello everyone
i recently purchased a 1tb external hard drive by buffalo to back up my old mac (2009) . when connecting the drive to my NEW macbook pro (2013) everything seems to be there but when i try to look at my old iphoto library it keeps telling me to hold down the ALT key and choose another library . not sure where to go from there . no matter what i try to do i cant seem to view my old iphoto library .what am i doing wrong ? thank you

cojaysea wrote:
i recently purchased a 1tb external hard drive by buffalo to back up my old mac (2009) .
Make sure the EHD is Formatted Mac OS Extended (journaled)...

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