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Share a music/photo hard drive between two systems
Authored by: pda on Jan 07, '11 01:49:23PM

Here is how I did it for iPhoto. Create a "sparse image" disk image of the size you might think you'll need. It can be increased latter if needed. Do this using the Disk Utility. I called mine simply Photos
Place the image in the Macintosh HD/Users/Shared directory. Since it will be locally mounted, I give everyone rights to it. Copy your iPhoto directory to it and change the location within iPhoto so it knows where to find it's files.
Automount the image at login. The mounted disk icon will show up on everyones desktop. You can actually run iPhoto by double clicking the disk icon.
The only down side is that a user locks the disk image for exclusive use. That mean that if Sally has iPhoto open and Bobby decides to login and run iPhoto he will get a warning that the disk is locked and he will not be able to access it until Sally closes the application. Users have to be considerate and close the app when they walk away from the machine.



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