Organizing Photos on a Windows Home Server

I thought I had a great plan but am having second thoughts. I have a larger folder structure of photos on a Windows Home Server and migrated to Mac a few months ago. I've imported the photos (but UNselected "Copy items to the iPhoto Library" since I didn't want to duplicate the files). All seems to be working great and everything is well organized. I then discovered that the iPhoto library is still on my local HD (2 Gigs and counting). I assume this is due to items duplicated when i edit them using iPhoto. I really want only one file location and tried moving the iPhoto library to the server but then iPhoto became REALLY slow. I have a gigabit wired home network so don't think it's the network's fault.
Any ideas on how I could fix this? Or automatically delete the original photos and move the modified ones into the original folders?
Thanks in advance!

remember iPhoto is a basic very inexpensive consumer photos organization program - you are trying to use it way above its capabilities or intent
The iPhoto library works just fine on any drive formatted Mac OS extended (journaled) - it does not have to be on your boot drive - it simply does not work on other formatted drives or with the originals not imported into it -- Moving the iPhoto library is safe and simple - quit iPhoto and drag the iPhoto library intact as a single entity to the external drive - depress the option key and launch iPhoto using the "select library" option to point to the new location on the external drive - fully test it and then trash the old library on the internal drive (test one more time prior to emptying the trash)
And be sure that the External drive is formatted Mac OS extended (journaled) (iPhoto does not work with drives with other formats) and that it is always available prior to launching iPhoto
And backup soon and often - having your iPhoto library on an external drive is not a backup and if you are using Time Machine you need to check and be sure that TM is backing up your external drive
There are several Digital Asset Managers (DAMs) available for the Mac and one of them should work for you in the way you want to work
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