Tried to move iphoto ~ error

I followed a youtube video to figure out how to move my iphoto library to my external, as I desperately need space on my hard drive, and after a couple minutes of the library copying onto the external, the following message pops up: The finder cannnot complete the operation because some data in "iphoto library" can not be read or written (Error Code -36). Help!

I too am having the same problem. I just purchased a WD My Passport, have updated the firmware, and have formatted it Mac OS Extended (Journaled). I can move files to and from it without a problem. I now desire to copy my Mac's Photo Library to it, but when I do it runs for a little while and then the error 43 pops up. Whenever this happens, I notice that the drive has been ejected and the indicator light on the drive is off.
I've run disk repairs on my Mac, I've run WD's SmartWare disk diagnostics on the external drive, and I've tried repairing my iPhoto library but it just gets stuck at 66% (I deleted the plist and the cache files and while iPhoto works great with the Photo Library, it still hangs while repairing the library database).
Any ideas? Thanks!

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