Help for a not so smart computer user on Time Mach and hard drive

Am sure this is a simple solve but I have tried everything so hoping someone out there can stop me from more frustration.
Am running time capsule with no problem. Bought a Seagate Free Agent portable drive which I want to use to store all my photos and delete them out of IPhoto. Sooo loaded the pics and all my ITunes music onto portable drive and started to delete all my pics in Iphoto (trying to clean up my computer a bit) so after deleting over 2000 photos...went into the Seagate hard drive and they were no longer on that hard drive either. Thank goodness for time capsule I restored them all but still cant get them off of my computer and onto only the Seagate hard drive. I went into Time Machine preferences and set it so it does not back up to the Seagate drive only the TM drive.....am I missing some other step or something to stop it from acting like an extension of time machine instead of a totally separate drive. All I want to do is copy all my photos on to drive and delete them off the computer. Even if I unplug it while I am deleting once I plug it back into the firewire connection it will delete anything I deleted in IPhoto. I tried connecting it usb and does the same thing.
Thought I could resolve this myself but after two days of reading the boards I could use a little help here.
Thanks so so much
T

HI Toni,
Run Disk Utility and Repair Disk Permissions.
Launch Disk Utility. (Applications/Utilities) Select MacintoshHD in the panel on the left, select FirstAid, then click: Repair Disk Permissions. Quit DU when it's finished and reboot.
See if that makes a difference.
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