IPhoto Library on USB drive - fails to start

I recently moved my iPhoto library to a USB drive (formatted as HFS+) and have been using it just fine.
This morning I realized I am unable to open iPhoto. I keep getting the spinning beach ball and after some time I have to force quit.
I used Disk Utility to repair the USB disk and it did repair some items, but even after that, no-go.
Any idea what may be happening?
I can browse the mounted disk just fine. It has only one item, and that is the iPhoto Library.

if the iPhoto library is not on a Mac formatted disk - Mac OS Extended (journaled) - you will have unpredictable results
If you drag it back to the internal drive will it work? Can you reformat the USB drive Mac OS Extended (journaled)? - this will erase everything so be sure you have a backup first. Once the iPhoto library i son the correctly formated drive it will work fine
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