Why is my iPhoto very slow?

My background: have been in the graphic design business for 10+ years now. Have been working on Macs for about 13 years, so I am familiar with how things should feel/work in programs.
My questions:
1. My iPhoto is VERY slow. I have friends who have it and they say it does not feel slow to them. I have only a few hundred photos in it, not that many...but it takes literally up to 30 seconds sometimes for me to navigate throughout different buttons. If I click on an event, it will take 10 seconds for the page of photos to pop up (and there may only be like 25 photos in that event). If I click on the scroll bar to scroll down, it'll take like 15 seconds for it to kick on before doing it. I was hoping to get very organized with all my photos, but it is discouraging me because I don't have the patience or time to sit and wait 10-30 seconds each time I click on something. Why is this?? Can it be fixed?
2. How can I see the actual "raw" files of each photo? When I go to iPhoto folder in my applications, it doesn't show me a folder with all the files. I can only view them through iPhoto. Is there a way to actually SEE all my raw files? If so, where?
Thanks

Libuse
Welcome to the Apple user discussion forums
1. My iPhoto is VERY slow. I have only a few hundred photos in it
How much free disk space do you have? What else is running? have you run activity monitor (in the utilities folder in your applications folder) to see memory usage and CPU usage by various programs?
Just to comfort you iPhoto is not inherently slow - in fact it is fast - and yours can be too
I have a slower iMac than you (2.1 GHz) with about 22,500 Photos in 230 events and it is quick
The largest cause of slowness in iPhoto is lack of hard drive space. Other things that can slow iPhoto down (although with virtually no photos they should not be the issue) are web galleries being updated (set them to manual and not to allow uploads) and opening iPhoto in Photo view with event titles turned off
How can I see the actual "raw" files of each photo?
Are you talking about RAW files, photos shot in RAW on your camera or accessing the files inside the iPhoto library?
If you are talking about accessing your photos, click here for a discussion on accessing your photos safely and correctly.
If you are talking about RAW format photos you can access them as noted above and you can access them in an external editor by setting iPhoto to edit in an external editor and clicking the edit in RAW checkbox
LN

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