Best way to organize 100k pictures??

Hi all,
Im new to the community and am facing a daunting task... I have 1300 events and 100k pix that i brought over from my pc... 350 gb of stuff...
its dragging my mac down.... should i have multiple libraries to keep it organized and fast... i certainly dont need to wiat 30 seconds each time get the iphoto to open... any imput or help would be much appreciated....thx in advance////

A library with 100000 pictures should be o.k.
There must be something else wrong, why your Mac is slow.
Check your disk(s): Do you have enough free disk space? Where is the library, on an internal or an external drive? if external drive, how is this drive formatted? It needs to formatted MacOS X extendended, and on a local volume, not on a network volume.
How much RAM do you have? Run the Activity monitor (from Applications > Utilities), to see if iPhoto is starved of RAM and has too many page outs.
Check the last event, that you imported, if it is unusally large. Your library may become huge, but keep the size of a single event reasonably small. Split very large events (larger than 500 pictures) into smaller events.
Your last import may contain a corrupted image or video or iPhoto still may need to process the last import in the background.
Did you upgrade recently? What is your exact iPhoto version? You may need to repair or rebuild your iPhoto library, after you checked that everything else is o.k. To repair, launch iPhoto with the options-command ⌥⌘ key-combination held down and select repair from the panel. If that does not help, do a rebuild as well.
Regards
Léonie

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