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Share iPhoto4 libraries across the Internet
Authored by: agent0068 on Feb 08, '04 01:36:06AM

As I've explained to you via email, myPhoto moves the iPhoto Library to your sites folder because iPhoto can handle aliases fine and by default, Apache can't. There are customizations you can make to Apache to get around this, but for some reason, I have not had consistent results in terms of reliability with all of my users and since most users don't want to customize Apache themselves if something goes wrong, this is a big burden in terms of support and a big hassle for the average user (who doesn't want to know of something like Terminal.app).

Aware of the oddities in my install, I have therefore provided written documentation on how to uninstall the files (very detailed, see the read me) as well as an uninstall option provided through the installer. Plenty of users who have had to uninstall myPhoto for some reason or another have done so just fine without data loss and so I think it is unfair of you to shift all blame in this incident upon myPhoto. I apologize for this incident and I sympathize with your frustration, but at the same time, I cannot accept the blame for your misfortune. If you'd like to discuss this further, please feel free to email me about this.



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Share iPhoto4 libraries across the Internet
Authored by: rzeisler on Feb 08, '04 02:26:21AM

"Aware of the oddities in my install" says it all! Moving an iPhoto library from the place Apple intended to be instead of using the features of the Apache webserver that would do the job is an oddity and leads to problems. Whether you accept the blame or not, my photos did not survive your oddities, but they would have survived using Apache correctly. I would never have dragged my iPhoto library to the trash can. I drag an app to the trash can all the time without suffering data loss.



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Authored by: peewit on Feb 08, '04 07:15:57AM

My my, I have opened a can of worms.
I have tried myPhoto but had lots of problems installing and managing it, especially if (like mine) the iPhoto Library lies on another partition. This hint is fairly straightforward and, apart from the initial setup in Network Beacon, fairly un-geeklike.



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