Too many photos: how can I keep iPhoto lively?

I have about 2000 photos in the iPhoto library - and already everything works more sluggishly. I suspect there's some way to organise all these files so that they don't hold things up. I wonder how to check this out?

Oliver
I was working on the possibility that a corrupt thumbnail might be causing the slowness, but if you're on 512MB of RAM it would make a big difference if you chose to double it.
What you cannot do is put a chunk of your library apart from the rest, but what you can do is have two (or more) libraries. This can be achieved most simply by using iPhoto Library Manager (http://homepage.mac.com/bwebster/iphotolibrarymanager.html) to create and manage the various libraries you create. If at some point later on you wish to merge the various libaries, iPLM will help you do this too.
Hope this helps
Regards
TD

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