How can I save photos and free up space in iPhoto?

I have a hard drive that used to be used on a PC. It's format is MS-DOS (FAT32). I've been using it for the past year with my Mac with no issue (moving files onto it and off of it).
I have over 30,000 photos in iPhoto now and am noticing that it's quite slow and often gets the 'rainbow spinning wheel'.
I want to move most of my photos over to the hard drive, but I still want to be able to access them.
1. Do I need to reformat the hard drive?
2. Where do I locate the iPhoto files on the mac?
Thanks in advance!!

1. Yes you do, and you do it with Disk Utility. There are lots of videos and posts on this online. For instance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8te1bg07MsQ
Remember that formating a drive will erase it so make sure you back it up forst.
2. One you're 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.
Regards
TD

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