Constantly Updating Photo Library

On both my "new" iPad and my iPhone, it's driving me to drink. About every 5-10 minutes, when I'm working in iPhoto on either device, all of a sudden, it starts doing its "Updating Photo Library" thing and that stops me from working. It is very, very annoying. I looked at tech articles and the last few days here in this subject area and haven't spotted any information.
Does anyone have any clue as to what causes this? And, if so, if there is anything that I can do bring it down to a bearable frequency? TIA.
(P.S. Looked at a couple suggestions that showed up on the right after I posted. Those users had problems syncing. I didn't originally nor have I had any problems syncing.)

This is a common occurrence and there is no way I know of to stope the updating of the library. Any changes to the photo library will result in updating in iphoto for iOS. You can leave feedback on this to Apple here:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphoto_ios.html

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Jeff
I am wondering if I should go in to my iPhoto Library and move most of the files to another location,
Under no circumstances should you do that - all that will achieve is corrupt your library.
Try Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums back.
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(I do have a LOT of photos, probably about 20,000 on my phone)
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I guess I simply had to many photos.
They were all from my iPhoto library on my computer. I synced my my iPhone to my computer and deleted most of them. I can put the photos back on later.
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Chris,
I agree with you that it would be nice for iPhoto for iOS to only update the edited photos and the camera roll when updating the photo library. Or perhaps check for other areas quickly and update only new albums. But at present iPhoto seems to look through the entire photo library when updating. If you have numerous photos on your iPad the updating takes longer. You may not agree that that's a good thing but it is the way it is. Having fewer photos will result in shorter update times.
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iPhoto is Apple's included program to manage your photo's and pictures.
It receives updates over time with Software updates and new machine or iLife purchases.
When iPhoto gets updated or a newer version is used, it may alter iPhoto support files, but newer iPhoto versions usually always compatible with older files which it then updates.
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Or somewhere along the line you used a newer iPhoto version (like on another Mac) and it altered the iPhoto support files on your older version of iPhoto.
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