Helping my dad with mega photo project....

He has about 35,000 pics from various trips over the years.
Trouble is, they're on cards, on his Mac (20,000 approx.) and on an external hardive too.
No surprise he's having problems with iPhoto now - confusing mess of events, duplicates, slow processing, etc
He's pretty clueless and I'm a Windows guy, but I said I'd try to help him out.
I think he mainly just wants to sort through everything, label, delete pics he doesn't like, and then eventually make slideshows with music.
So here's my suggestion:
Delete everything off his iPhoto/Mac.
Painstakingly transfer everything from cards onto mega external hardive.
Sort through everything, label, organize, delete etc off the external hardive.
And then begin to slowly load folder after after onto iPhoto in an organized, logical, manner.
What do you think?
Maybe for what he wants to do, iPhoto will only screw him up - once there are like 10,000+ photos crammed on there?
All suggestions are most welcome! : )

iPhoto 11 is good for 1,000, 000 images, earlier versions for 250k.
If space is a concern the Library can be on an external disk with no performance hit.
Make sure the drive is formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
1. Quit iPhoto
2. Copy the iPhoto Library from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk.
3. Hold down the option (or alt) key while launching iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new location. From that point on this will be the default location of your library.
4. Test the library and when you're sure all is well, trash the one on your internal HD to free up space.
Of course you need a second drive to back it up.
Regards
TD

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