Viewing Photo Files

In order to address capacity issues when using iphoto, I recently moved all of my photo files to an external drive and placed them in individual folders. I would like to be able to view them in a slideshow, but I have not found a way to do that. Can anyone help me? I was told by Apple that iphoto was not designed to store many photos, and if you want to keep a large number of photos on your system, you should maintain them outside of iphoto. This has stopped my computer from crashing, but I have lost many of the advantages of iphoto.

I was told by Apple that iphoto was not designed to store many photos, and if you want to keep a large number of photos on your system, you should maintain them outside of iphoto
You got very bad advice - iPhoto is designed to handle 250,000 photos - more than you are likely to have disk space for. Many of us have over 20,000 photos in iPhoto with no problems at all
What size internal and external hard drive do you have and how much free space does each have?
Assuming that you have space on your external drive your best solution is to have your photos in iPhoto with the library on the external drive - launch iPhoto with the option (alt) key depressed and use the create library option and create that library on the external HD then import your photos into iPhoto
Once you do that you should not ever make and changes within the iPhoto library wxcept using the iPhoto program
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or
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The message below (first part) didn't make sense,since that's what I always did before.
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I had no idea what the second part of the message below was saying.
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(Note: several questions in this post, scattered)
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That info in stored in the photo file as EXIF data - many programs will read and display the EXIF date - Generally it travels well with the photo
IMG_0001 and IMG00012 (these two images are exactly the same). Is there a way to get rid of these files safely?
The only safe way to get rid of photos in iPhoto is to delete them using iPhoto - drag them to the iphoto trash and empty the iPhoto trash
, I realized that there are about 5 or 6 GB of extra information created for my 4000+ images (due to thumbnails created for each image, etc) versus just having them in folders would save me 5 or 6 GB.
This buys you non destructive editing, the ability to revert to the original at any time and virtually unlimited organization capability with keywords, albums, smart albums, ratings etc.
with the low cost of storage I find the trade off a good one
LN

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