Upgraded and now my iPhoto is locked and External HD does not appear to be working

I was hoping someone could help with this issue. I recently updated to Yosemite. Today I tried to log onto IPhoto, (which all pictures save directly into an external hard drive) . When I attempted to access IPhoto, it gets an error message, "The iPhoto Library is locked. Reopen iPhoto when you have read/write access, or reopen iPhoto with the Option key held down to choose another library."
I then tried the hold down option key which didn't work. I also downloaded iPhoto Manager and rebuilt the library. I still can't access iPhoto from my dock app. It has the same issue. I also attempted to repair permissions which also didn't work.
I am not really tech savvy but can get by but I have no clue whats going on.
Now I noticed I can not drag anything to my external hard drive. It is grayed out. When I checked on disk utility to try a repair, the icon for External is also grayed out.
Oh, and this fool never backed up anything with Time Machine. =)
Also, I recently got an iPhone with the cloud, I hope this isn't the problem and this is strictly an issue with Yosemite.
Can someone please give me advice

Try the following:
In Finder, select the problematic volume and then press command-I.
Expand the Sharing & permissions section if it's collapsed.
If the section is locked, then unlock it by pressing the padlock button and then authenticating as directed.
Tick/check Ignore ownership on this volume.

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