Increase Speed

I have exactly 1212 photos in my library mostly 5.1 megapixels. I noticed that the speed at which photos show up in full screen mode is really slow. Is there a way I can rebuild the cache and possibly speed things up?

Jon
The usual things that cause slowness are
1. a corrupted cache: The iPhoto cache can be found at Home/Library/Caches/ iPhoto
Just trash it and re-start the machine.
2. Disk Space? Have you more than 10% of your HD free?
3. Insufficient RAM
Regards
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