Trouble recreating broken library iphoto 6

Hello,
I'm trying to recreate a broken library in Iphoto 6 using the instructions in different posts on the discussion board, but when I try to copy my iPhoto Library folder to my desktop as instructed, I get an error message saying:
"The item 'iPhoto Library' cannot be copied because there is not enough free space."
Any ideas? Should I only be moving the actual "Library6.iPhoto" file?
And some background: all of a sudden my Library wasn't showing up in iPhoto. Tried to rebuild using iPhoto Library Manager but got the error message:
"This library cannot be rebuilt because its XML file contains no image records."
So I'm starting from scratch.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks!

If you're library is on the Time Capsule... is that a Wired or Wireless connection? This is important as iPhoto does not work well with wireless connections. Short drop outs are part of Wireless networking and if one occurs while iPhoto is writing to the database then you may have a damaged db file.
So, assuming a hard wired connection to the the External you can create the new library on there rather than on your Mac.
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Note this will give you a working library with the same Rolls and pictures as before, however, you will lose your albums, keywords, modified versions, books, calendars etc.
Hold down the option (or alt) key key and launch iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Create Library', Name it and set it to be on your external
Go into the *damaged iPhoto Library* and find the Originals folder. From the Originals folder drag the individual Roll Folders to the iPhoto Window and it will recreate them in the new library.
When you're sure all is well you can delete damaged iPhoto Library.
In the future, in addition to your usual back up routine, you might like to make a copy of the library6.iPhoto file whenever you have made changes to the library as protection against database corruption.
Regards
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