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Nice question. I got about 200GB all organized within iPhoto. Size comes from the pictures being mostly saved in RAW. Still, iPhoto becomes slow. I moved the library to an external hd to have free space on my internal one.

I fear the day I got to dig through every picture I made and decide if it is worth keeping or not. :-/

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I'm thinking out loud here but I believe most people fear that day so I'm wondering whether a service which everyday would ask you to choose between a couple of pictures (say order 10 pictures), you would easily get at least 1000 pictures per years organized. Does it sound any good?

How about a service where you can pay people to do it for you, maybe, say, 10 cents an image?

The immediate problem I see with it is how does that person know how to do it my way? At least when I look at some pictures from a trip I don't always choose the most obvious as my favorite, there's some emotional aspect to some picture that is much more powerful than just the quality of the picture itself.

That said, maybe I'm in the minority and it would actually work!

Storage is an issue, you don't even know if you want to keep these pictures, and you're storing them in RAW?

Huhwha?

Sure I keep them in RAW - because storage is not an issue. Organization is though.

Have you tried moving from iPhoto to Aperture? At 200GB I think you've outgrown iPhoto's capabilities.

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