"Add flagged photos" only works sometimes.  Is there a fix?

After I flag photos in one event, then select another event, and choose "Add flagged photos...", the flagged photos are sometimes moved and sometimes not.  After opening the target event and clicking on a few photos, then selecting the target event again, the "Add flagged photos.." may work.  I seems to work about 10% of the time on the first try.  Is there something I could do to fix this?

I thought it might be an photo ownership issue since my wife and I share the iPhoto library (it is in the Shared User folder) so I set the security on the photos to "Read and Write" from both my account and her account.
That's not how to set permissions on an iPhoto Library.  Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. You'll see the option to check and repair Library permissions.
I thought about rebuilding the library, but am a little nervous about that since there are numerous warnings about backing up before doing that.
What? You mean you don't back up?
Sounds as though it might be dangerous
Not dangerous at all... if you have a back up.
Regards
TD

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