Iphoto copying of photos fails

Hi.
I am trying to drag copy photos from iPhoto to an external hd under 10.8.2...and the drive just sits there. Under a terminal window, I see it all. In Finder, it is just blank.
TIA
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Hi, harvjd. There is no feature in iPhoto that does what you're asking. With the aid of a very powerful text editor such as the freeware TextWrangler, a determined and experienced text-handler can extract a list of the filenames of all the photos in an iPhoto Library from a copy (never move or alter the original!) of the iphoto.db file inside the iPhoto Library folder. But it takes a lot of doing and serious concentration, it's extremely tedious, and in the end all you end up with is a list of all your photo filenames, nothing more. That's not much to warrant all the work that's gone into it.
If you have a large iPhoto Library, you may find that it would be a better use of your resources to buy and learn a later version of iPhoto (which will have more management options and capabilities) or to use a different application for your photo management purposes. At the very least, dividing your library into several smaller libraries would give you another level of organizational hierarchy in which to file pictures. I find the limited hierarchy in iPhoto 4 to be its most confining and frustrating feature, and I now have eight separate libraries in partial compensation for that limited flexibility in this version. I also have a large library of photos that aren't in any iPhoto library at all, and I use GraphicConverter, Adobe Bridge, and other applications to file and manage those pictures.

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