Iphoto is too full

Each time I click on iphoto i get a message which says "your start up disc is getting full". What does that mean? I am trying to go through all of my photos and deleting the ones I can to make room for new ones. Do I just need to empty the trash? Do I have to move my photos to a different place/
Thank you for your helpl

kmorg:
I believe the system will give that warning when you have only 1G of free space left. That is courting disaster. It's good practice to have at least a minimum of 10G free space. This will help facilitate optimum performance. With only 1G you won't even be able to burn a DVD as the system needs to create a temporary disk image to burn and 1G won't support it.
I strongly recommend you clear out as much free space as possible on you boot disk. With the low cost of external FW hard drives they become a excellent way to backup your important files and free up space on your boot drive.
You can also run Monolingual and remove all of the unneeded language modules. I recovered about 900 MB the first time I ran it. Just don't remove English or American English.
Do you Twango?
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've written an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.

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