Feb 10, '04 10:40:00AM • Contributed by: egilDOTnet
What I did was this:
- Created a second user account and enabled fast user switching (lets call him Charlie).
- Logged on as my second user Charlie and dug out my backup of the iPhoto Library (if you have not relocated it, its by default in your Pictures folder) and copied it back into my new user account.
- Logged back on with my main account (which is admin by the way).
- Started up a terminal window (Applications/Utilities) and typed in:
You will be asked for your admin password, and should get the prompt back in a short time. The line above changes the rights for your iPhoto library so that Charlie now owns it. This presumes your account's short name is charlie, so change this to whatever your secondary account's short name is. This step is important so that iPhoto is allowed to do updates to your images (put them in the new format iPhoto4 uses).sudo chown -R charlie:charlie /Users/charlie/Pictures/iPhoto\ Library/ - Go into your system preferences and make sure that your firewall is either off, or that port 8770 is open.
- Log back in with second account Charlie, fire up iPhoto and wait a bit as the images are converted.
- Go into preferences and enable Rendezvous sharing.
- Log back into your main account, start up iPhoto (if its not already running) and see Charlie's pictures in the list of albums available.
- Click on Charlie's pictures, which should give you a list of all available albums (if you shared them all).
- Drag and drop the albums (or images) you want over from Charlie's pictures and place them in your library (the top item in the lefthand list). The arrow will change to the standard add symbol (green cirle with plus sign).
- Wait for the import to happen - you will see that the album is recreated in your list once the import is done!.
