Looking at pictures in iPhoto 5

I don't bother looking at all of my pics anymore, since it takes way too long. My desktop is uncluttered, no other windows are open, etc. I hit rotate, for example, and it takes 5-10 seconds to do it. I hit the right arrow to look at pictures, it takes forever. I don't understand why and I hope someone can help me. I do have over 17,000 pics, so if that is the reason how can I get around that?
I need to organize my pictures and clean them out, but it would take many hours to do what could be done in one.
HELP PLEASE!
Julie

Hello, Julie,
You are probably experiencing a slowdown because of the number of photos. I know Steve Jobs touted iPhoto 5 as being capable of handling up to 25,000 photos (and 250,000 in iPhoto 6!), but I have found that if iPhoto Library gets over 6500 photos, it will begin to show some slowness. You can easily organize your photos by using either iPhotoBuddy http://www.iphotobuddy.com/
or iPhotoLibrary Managerhttp://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/7158.
These will allow you to create several libraries, thus decreasing the number of photos in any one library. I use iPhotoBuddy and currently have 7 libraries with photos organized by the year taken, total of about 14,000 photos so far.
If you have duplicates or wish to get rid of some photos that you have edited and don't want to keep the originals, you can try iPhoto Diethttp://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~fuhrer/personal/freestuff/iphotodiet/
You might also consider moving your photo libraries to an external hard drive to free up space on your computer. Have a look at this thread for more help with this: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=951400&#951400

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- What version of the Operating System.
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- Are there error messages?
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Bill:
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