Large iphoto database

Hi Forum,
i have a large iPhoto DB of 9500 photos and 19GBs of data. i need to bring in another 6000 photos at least and i'm concerned about the size of the DB.
is this large?
can i scale it down? cut photos into years and have a yearly Database?
i dont have a problem with one DB and it being large but its the space it takes up on the my laptop. i'm struggling to fit it on and having to cut other stuff i need on the laptop.
can the DB be put on a NAS?
Andi

9,500 photos is not a large databse. Iphoto is good for 250,000 imaes, so you have a little headroom yet
No, you can't put a Library on a NAS. You can, however, use any USB/ Thunderbolt/ FireWire external disk that is appropriately formatted. iPhoto needs to have the Library sitting on disk formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Users with the Library sitting on disks otherwise formatted regularly report issues including, but not limited to, importing, saving edits and sharing the photos.
Regards
TD

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