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Planning to buy a new iMac as soon as they come out, mainly due to the slow iPhoto speed with these size libraries. My experience on an old 2007 iMac 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 4GB of RAM is that iPhoto slows down dramatically above about 20,000 images / 20-40 GB Library size. There are a lot of people here trying to help you. A digital asset manager, or DAM (A3 or LR) is the difference between "storing" and "using" your pictures. Even if you were to cull your 30K photos to a size that fits in your computer, then it is still too large to ever "use" those pictures. You will see that there are tools (A3, and presumably LR) that will do this job for you. If you can afford taking 30K pictures, then you can afford (time or money) reading a pair of $6 ebooks that are 25 - 50 pages each. They are the best investment that I can imaging for anyone trying to figure out the steps of creating a photo strategy. This is because the albums would contain what A3 calls "versions".
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but you could have many/most/all (your choice) of your pictures with you on your laptop even when the drive is not connected. To edit photos, you would need to attach the drive. but your albums could remain within your A3 library. meaning the master images would be in a location specified by you (ex: external USB drive). To do this, you would use "Referenced Masters".
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and then use smart albums to make collections of your best images that you can keep on your computer. You can (if you choose) keep your masters on an external drive. every image master lives in just one single and unique project. a project is pretty equivalent to an iPhoto event. but within that library, they reside in over 1000 projects. Those 51K image masters are all in a single A3 library. We just scanned (a 4+ year project) all of our analog negatives and slides. I have 51K images taken since we got married in '76.