Attempting to move iPhoto to external HD.

I get an error stating 'file already exists with that name' Threre are no other files on the HD? Help!

Yes, my EHD is formatted for MacOS Extended.
The triggering of the message is after I have pasted the folder into the EHD and the copy process begins. About 56 MB into the process the message appears that states the folder already exists. The foldedr that exists is the iPhoto Library folder.
Same issue when I created the folder on the EHD.
I ended up making an appointment with the local Genius Bar. The encountered the same issue, so the fix was to copy only the Original and the Modified folders. That seemed to work fine. The only issue was I think we should have also copied the Recovered file. There was a lot of discussion around the definition the the Recovered file and what actually is deposited within. Original and Modified make perfect sense and are self-explanatory. Recovered is not intuitive, at least I have back-ups (just in case I need one).
Thanks for your input.

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