Iphoto cannot copy photos to desktop

iPhoto will not copy photographs anymore!
I want to be able to drag (copy) photographs from iPhoto to the desktop.
This works fine in one profile but not my wife's profile
Why does iPhoto not allow copy?

Thanks 'Old Toad'
Yep I tried that. I get a quite often preferences/com.apple.alf.plist should be 80 but is 0
After my post I realised my wife's profile couldn't copy ANYTHING. No images no documents. The log-in was screwed. Solved itself in a way because Mountain Lion is so unstable when switching users - it did its usual crash and when I logged back in I removed the usual mentioned: preferences/com.apple.alf.plist "should be 80 but is 0" to trash and restarted again. This fixed it. For now - but with ML all is flakey

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