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Share an iPhoto4 Library between two or more users
Authored by: SOX on Jan 29, '04 11:58:45AM

Could you elaborate a bit. Why does not changing the owner/access rights allow someone to share the files as before? I understand that iphoto creates new entires with the owner set to the current user. But it always did this. you had to change the owner/access each time you added new photos. So what changed?<p>

Also if the problem is that you just want to keep one file from shifting its priviledges/owner perhaps one could do this with the lock flag found in setflags. not sure about that.



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Share an iPhoto4 Library between two or more users
Authored by: jnm on Jan 29, '04 02:29:01PM

Hi Sox,

The problem is with the AlbumData.xml file. I don't know why, but access rights to this file are reset to a default rw------- every time you launch iPhoto 4 (and it looks like it does so every time it quits too!). Believe me, the effects are strange when you are not the owner of the AlbumData.xml file, even if you have read/write access to it: iPhoto just crashes.

I thought about adding a kind of wrapper which would have changed the owner to the current user every time iPhoto is launched, but if two or more users have iPhoto launched at the same time, only the last one would not crash...

The only solution that came up to my mind was to disable owner and access rights to this file, which is done by putting the whole Library on a volume that's got access rights disabled, which resolves eventually the other problem of access rights to all the photos.

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Jnm.



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