Using iPhoto on External, but photos are mysteriously being loaded internal

I just recently moved my iPhoto library to my external hard drive. It works fine there. I deleted the library on my MacBook Pro. However, when I upload photos from my camera, it shows both the external hard drive's memory and the laptop's memory being consumed.
Why is it copying to both places?
How do I stop it?
How do I find the phantom copies on my internal so I can delete them?

Thanks for the reply!
Sorry, I always get the two confused. If I check "Get Info" on my laptop's drive or the external hard drive, it shows that while the photos are being imported, I am losing disk space on my laptop as well as my external. I'm also losing disk space on the external, which is what I want, since the photos are being imported correctly from the camera to my external like they should.
I just copied my iPhoto library into my external, pressed Option while opening iPhoto and selected the external as my library. Then I deleted my laptops photo library. The photos that I imported after all of this show up perfectly fine in my external library.
Thanks for the help,
Shiray

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