Using External to browse photos?

Hi everyone,
Just got my brand new MacBook and love it. I have been using a iBook G4 for work, but this is my first Mac purchase.
My question is I keep a large library of photos on my external drive. I would like to use iPhoto to browse those images, but do not want to move the photos onto my MacBook hard drive. Is this possible and if so how? The external drive I have is a LaCie Mini drive.
Can anyone help?
Thanks!
Wes
2007 MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.8) 2GHZ Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, 120GB drive, White MacBook

MacWes
Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
1. iPhoto is not an image viewer, you dont use it to Browse folders of pics. It's a photo organiser, that is a database. Pics have to be imported into it.
2. You can certainly run your iPhoto library from an external disk. Just hold down the option (or alt) key and laucnh iPhoto, choose the Create library option and navigate to the external. drive and create the librayr there. Then import the photos to it.
Regards
TD

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