Iphone 09 crashes every time when importing from an external hard drive

Just bought a mac mini and I wanted to import my jpgs from my windows external disk (disconnected it from the pc temporarily.) However, I do not have enough hard drive on the mini to hold all of the pictures, so I moved the iphoto library (using the instructions obtained on this forum) to a second external drive (formatted as mac.) I'm trying to have iphoto import from the windows external hard drive and place the photos into the library located on the mac external hard drive. This shouldn't be a problem.
However, iphoto will go fine for about 1000 photos then crash. It has done this the last 9 attempts. I also noticed that the photos that have been imported fine (I stopped the import to see how the software would work -- before it crashed out on me) and iphoto displays the photo, but when I click it, iphoto says the file cannot be found.
Wow, this program has some serious flaws. I'm giving up on it, and hoping the Picassa port will work better.

Did you want help or just to share the experience?
Regards
TD

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