Does Aperture really need 25GB of thumbnails?

I know what thumbnails are and I understand that aperture needs them in order for me to view the files in the browser.
But for a 33K image library, does aperture really need 35GB of thumbnails? Surely each image only needs to be a few KB?
Is there any way to reduce the thumbnail foot print? It would enable me to comfortably store the Library on the boot SSD.
Regards

Earlier versions of aperture3 had issues with generating thumbnails and ballooning size.
Thumbnails in aperture are actually about 1024x1024 - My 30K refrenced library has about 9GB of thumbnails.
Since you have an SSD you will love doing a referenced library setup on the ssd - the library FLIES on an SSD since there are so many small files to deal with - My recommendation would be to right click and inspect the contents of your Library, move the thumbnails out of the folder, copy the library (without the thumbnails) to your SSD, You can then put the old thumbnails folder back in your old library after the copy - open the library up on the SSD and let aperture rebuild the thumbnails from scratch on your SSD.

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