I accidentally broke iPhoto..

[missmichaela]

So recently I discovered that I have 54GB of photos in iPhoto, which probably is the reason my mac has been running really slow. (probably because the disk is almost full) In the process of exporting all of my photos to my external drive, iPhoto froze. Thinking this wouldn't harm the photo library, I force quit and reopened.

Then I got this message: (it's in the attached files)

Praying that this was a fluke, I restarted and reopened iPhoto and received the same message.

Currently I'm trying to backup my computer to my external. Is there a way I can back up only my photo library? I tried dropping it into the drive, and it said it couldn't copy completely.

I really don't want to lose all of my photos, but I feel as if this my own fault.

 

[harryb2448]

Did you try the Option + Comand on reboot?

And make sure your hard drive/s have a minimum 20% free space to work anywhere near efficiently. Sounds like this may be your problem rather than breaking it.

 

[johnodd4]

you have to press a certain key combo to tell iPhoto to look on the external hard drive is all the key combo is

Moving Your iPhoto Library to an External Drive - Basics4Mac

look here it will give you a better idea for all versions of iPhoto

hold option on startup of iPhoto