Is there a maximum library size

Hi all,
My version of Aperture 3 seems to be running particularly slowly - it is slow to start up and there seems to be constant hard disk access during which I am treated to the spinning ball of death. The library is a managed library of about 140Gb - a large part of which is imported iphoto "projects"
In my PC days I would have suspected defragmentation, but I have been told that Macs do not suffer from this. Is the fact that the entire library is on my iMac likely to be the culprit? Would I be likely to see a speed increase if I referenced the library to an external hard disk?

Aperture requires two separate structures for your photos. I call them an "Access Structure" and a "Storage Structure". The Access Structure is what you (the generic Aperture user) build in Aperture using Projects, Folders, Albums, and Smart Albums. It is shown on the Library Inspector tab. If your Library is 'Managed' Aperture takes care of the Storage Structure and you don't have to do anything. When you create a Referenced Library you assume responsibility for the Storage Structure.
I recommend you store your files by the broadest useful categories you can think of, and then by date. The categories allow you isolate whole sets of photos you might need to treat separately, such as medical slides, or divisions which are permanent, such as Professional/Personal, Mine/Not_mine, etc.
I recommend that you do not use date as an organizing datum in your Access Structure. The atomic unit of Aperture is the Version, and every Version has a date. That date is always accessible and always useable for filters and sorting -- there is nothing gained by creating Projects or Folders for time periods, except when needed (ad hoc).

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