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Share iPhoto libraries on external drives Apps
Not sure how useful this trick is, or even if it will survive the next system update. (Mine is running the latest versions of OS X Tiger and iLife '05.)

I was working this morning on using iPhoto Buddy and our external FireWire hard drive so that all users on my machine could share the same iPhoto library. I set up an copy of my iPhoto library on our external drive using my account, then Fast User Switched over to my wife's account to see if she could view it, make changes, etc.

Before I switched her to the external library using iPhoto Buddy, however, I noticed that the library on the external drive was available to her using iPhoto library sharing! Sure enough, both her and my account had iPhoto sharing set up, and since iPhoto was still running in my account, it was sharing my library from the external hard drive to her account with the library on the local account. User ratings (0-5 stars) were preserved through sharing, as usual, although keywords were not.

The next time I want to move iPhoto pictures from one computer to the other, I'll definitely use iPhoto Buddy, the external drive, and iPhoto library sharing to simplify the process.
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Share iPhoto libraries on external drives
Authored by: jeaginsky on Jan 05, '06 09:13:32AM

could you use ACL for an external drive? not sure what the spelling would be...
(see: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050904072808460&query=acl+iphoto)



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Share iPhoto libraries on external drives
Authored by: hypert on Jan 05, '06 12:07:34PM

I don't get it. What's the hint? You figured out the iPhoto sharing works? That's not new.

What did the external hard drive and iPhoto Buddy have to do with it? All of this should have worked if you left your iPhoto Library under your homedir, turned on iPhoto sharing, switched to the other account, launched iPhoto with the Option key held down, and navigated to your iPhoto Library folder when iPhoto prompts you to pick a library.

You might need to make your iPhoto Library folder world-writable (or place both accounts in the same UNIX group), but I'm missing the point of iPhoto Buddy and the whole external hard drive thing.



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yes, i don't get it, either
Authored by: ian.kim on Jan 05, '06 01:54:41PM

could you please explain a bit more about what iphoto buddy and the external hard drive have to do with it?



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