Can't cut and paste from iPhoto

I am trying to remove photos from my iPhoto library and paste them on a external hard drive. I select, cut and then click on the hard drive window and try to paste. If I do this with just a few photos (10 or less), it always works. If I try to do this with several hundred photos it rarely works. I can cut them from iPhoto, but can not paste to the hard drive. The "paste XXX items" button does not come to life.
Mac info: OSX, version 10.8.5, 3.2 GHz Intel Core 13, 4GD 1333MHz RAM.
iPhoto info: iPhoto 11, version 9.4.3
Hard drive: LaCie 1TB

The only reason I am trying to reduce the photos in the iPhoto library on my Mac, is I have been having problems using iPhoto (freezes up, has trouble saving changes…). People have told me that maybe I have too many photos (around 25K) and if I move some to an external drive it would help. Will this help? Is having 25K photos really a problem?
I read the "Exporting From iPhoto" link and it looks like it will allow me to export the photos. Thanks.

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