How to move photo's but keep iPhoto library intact?

Hi,
I keep my photo's (actual files) on a NAS drive accessible through WiFi. These photo's are imported (but not copied) into an iPhoto library which resides on my laptop.
Now, on the NAS I want to move these photo's to a different directory on the NAS.
I tried moving them hoping I could change the source location in iPhoto. This does work when I change the location for each single photo. However with about 15,000 photo's this would take a long time.
I could re-import them but then I'd lose all the faces, places and such.
Does anyone know of a way to change the source location, say in the iphoto library package?
thanks in advance!

You can not using iPhoto
You can if you can hack the SQLite database ( some have posted how to do that) or use APerture
This is one of many reasons that referenced libraries are strongly not recommended in iPhoto
see the user tip on photo and file management for more information - https://discussions.apple.com/community/ilife/iphoto?view=documents
LN

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