How do i move the contents of iphoto to an external hard drive

My iphoto has 37GB of photos on it which I want to move to a Seagate external drive which has 500GB space, but when I try to move the folders through Finder they wont stick, any suggestions?

Below is an example for how to move iMovie files to an external drive. This works for iPhoto too, just change the folders in the text below.
1. Copy all iMovie folders (in the Movies folder) to the external drive.
iMovie Events
iMovie Projects
iMovie Sharing
2. Wait until finished
3. Rename the iMovie folders on the internal drive to something like
iMovie Events.orig
iMovie Projects.orig
iMovie Sharing.orig
3.On the external drive, click on the created folder
iMovie Events
iMovie Projects
iMovie Sharing
press Alt+Command key (apple key) and then drag the folders back to the Movies folder on your internal drive. It will create alias (links) to the external folders.
4. Start iMovie. It should now look for the iMovie folders in the Movies folder, which points to an external driv.
5. If everything works well, the .orig folder may be deleted on the internal drive.
This kind of trick works for allmost all folders you want to move to an externa place (drive, network drive)
Hope this helps.
/rob

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