Photo's needs to be archived off HD

I have 86 GB available on a 250 GB iMac. I would like to burn all the photo's to DVDs. I would like a recommendation for an application that will tell me how many disks are required to offload approximately 3000 photo's, then proceed to burn. I believe the current app. told me that my disk does not have sufficient space.

{quote:}The problem is that my wife doesn't get all the photo's under her profile via iPhoto's sharing feature.{quote}
My iMac is only set up with one account, but have a look at the following articles:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050904072808460
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=134554
{quote:}My thinking is that all the photo's should be placed on an external hard drive.{quote}
Yes, both iPhoto and iTunes Libraries can be moved and run from an External HD.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1229?
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1449?
+*Caution do not rely on a single External HD*+
Before deleting the Libraries off your Internal HD, be sure that they are working properly from the External HD and backed up on a second External HD's or DVD's.

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