Cannot drag and drop photos into folder on desktop from iphoto

Hope you can help.  I was backing up a lot of photos onto an external disk yesterday, both from iPhoto and Bridge.
The photos that are now left in iPhoto cannot be dragged and dropped into a folder on my desktop.  I had been doing this yesterday and it was working fine.
I also seem to have lost the RAW information from all the Photos and they will now only open in Photoshop if I drag them to the Photoshop icon on my desktop but they are only opening as JPEGs.  Before that I could right click the Photo and choose open in external editor, it won't let me do that anymore.
Thanks in advance.

Maybe your  iPhoto > Preferences > Advanced > Importing  settings aren't set to "Copy items to the iPhoto Library"? If that's the case, iPhoto only references the photos from their containing folder without duplicating them, and if you move or delete that folder iPhoto looses the link to the originals photos.
If your  iPhoto > Preferences > Advanced > Importing  settings are set to "Copy items to the iPhoto Library" then the problem may also be related to what I consider a user interface bug in Mac OS X which allows you to access the content of the the iPhoto Library very easily from the Finder, which shouldn't happen (the iPhoto Library has been made into a monolitic file package in the latest versions of iLife specifically to prevent this):
Just search for any JPEG file into your hard disk and presto, every photo contained into that iPhoto Library file package appears in the Finder ready to be easily moved and deleted by the user, corrupting the iPhoto Library!
Maybe the new photos come up as JPEGs because iPhoto converts the RAW files to JPEG as explained here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2297?viewlocale=en_US#one

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