Save IMovie to external hard drive (LaCie 160GB Mini Hard Drive)

Hi All,
When I move a movie created in IMovie using "copy" and then pasting it to the external hard drive it will not open completely. I receive an error message telling me that files are not missing. I have run out of space on my mac mini because of the videos so I brought the external drive. Is there a move option instead of "copy" or do I just need to open it and save it directly instead of copy. Some of the movies i move there does work. I have the project in IMovie and then export it to Idvd.
Can someone help me with this problem?
mac mini

I happened to accidentally format a hard disk thinking I was formatting my
USB-memory.
ooch, Bengt!
.. yepp, such a recovery is a costly, time consuming process..
I've once read some stories, including 'burned' (=real life fire) drives, which some specialists are able to recover.. indeed, looked like NASA technology.. ;-))
I needed a recovery years ago, those apps were not as elaborated as nowadays.. I got 800 single files, named just by a number.. and I looked for a specific part of a text.. - hours ... many hours ...
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