I have over 8000 photos in iPhoto can I archive some

1 - 8000 is not many photos - I have over 50,000

2 - large iPhoto libraries do not cause Mac preformance issues

3 - how much free space do you have on your hard drive?

4 - the best way to archive photos is to have an additional hard drive (your backup drive and an ther one) and create a new library on it - use iPhoto Library Manager to move photos to it - cna verify tha tyour backup is backing up the second hard drive as well as the main one

LN

How much free space on your hard drive and how much RAM. What else on your iMac is running slow? Can you give examples of the "slowness"? What version of iPhoto are you using?

OT

Check iPhoto's preferences and turn off all sharing options. Also as<p></p><p style="padding-left: 45px;"><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <em style="color: #FF8406; text-shadow: 2px 2px 2px #000000;">OT</em></span></p> a test, disconnect from the internet and launch iPhoto. Does it open faster or slower?

More RAM will be the biggest help on speed - today 2GB is pretty much the minimum you can even operate with - more is better

LN

If you are using Open DNA for DNS services change to a different DNS service - it has been reported that it cna cause this

LN