Hold down the option key when you open iphoto.. A menu should appear that gives you the choice of opening an existing library or creating a new library. You can create more than one iphoto library but they must have different names as assigned when you create a new library. Crandall Benson On 9-Oct-08, at 10:46 PM, Douglas Feick wrote: > I had something unusual happen with iphoto. I copied my iphoto files > from my desktop computer, to my external HD, and when I went into > iphoto on my desktop computer, it told me my iphoto library was > missing, and do I want to create another one or find the library. I > told it to create another one, and when it did, it was an empty > library, no problem. I attached my external HD and opened iphoto, but > it only showed the empty library, even though I had copied everything > to my external HD. I had to trash my iphoto library on the desktop so > I could view my photos on the external HD. Now when I want to look at > my pics, I need to load the external, since my desktop doesn't have > enough memory for all my pics, and apparently iphoto doesn't like 2 > libraries. Any suggestions? ...Doug F. > --- > MUGLO information at <http://www.freewebs.com/muglo> > Manage list subscription options at <//www.freelists.org/list/muglo > > > > --- MUGLO information at <http://www.freewebs.com/muglo> Manage list subscription options at <//www.freelists.org/list/muglo>