When I have iPhoto open, my Mac runs a lot slower.

We have over 30,000 photos on our hard drive. If I move them to an external drive, would this speed up my Mac?
thanks

Impossible to know.
How big is your HD? How much free space on it?
How much Ram do you have?

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