

The external hard drive should properly be connected and it is to be verified that the device is turned on.For this it is required closing the application and any photos it has before the actual copy begins, however slighter differences with the processes may be observed depending on the version of iphoto application used. In order to fix iphoto library will not copy issue, it is recommended using the application folder and copying it in the appropriate manner to desired drive location. As the very problem taking place may be an indication for corrupt folder structure and photos and thus cannot be used or copied. Though failure of the issue asks for iphoto library rebuild. The operation cannot be completed because an item with the name already existsĪs a fix for this, it is first of all attempted by users to copy the folder to a new folder on the drive, if previously it would have been done on an already existing folder. Taking one such instance in which the iphoto library folder is tried to be copied to an external hard drive by dragging and dropping the process begins and shortly after copying files, it generates message as – Users often face difficulty in accessing photos, importing or copy from it as such the very attempt stops there itself throwing error messages as such ‘ iphoto library won't copy' and depending upon the observed issue the library files may even become inaccessible.


IPhoto offers several advanced features that help manage photos with ease besides that facility of editing importing sharing and printing photos further makes this a great utility.
