Sharing photos among several Macs

Until iPhoto 08, I was able to share photos among my laptop, my deskside and my wife's iMac by carefully moving files between the systems.
I do not want to carry an extra hard drive with my laptop to download and view photographs while traveling!
I want to be able to edit the photo collections on the different systems.
Is there still a way to move the photos among systems and use iPhoto 08?
If not, can anyone recommend a replacement for iPhoto 08 that allows sharing across systems?

jp-granite
Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
There are two ways to share, depending on what you mean by 'share'.
If you want the other user to be able to see the pics, but not add to, change or alter your library, then enable Sharing in your iPhoto (Preferences -> Sharing), leave iPhoto running and use Fast User Switching to open the other account. In that account, enable 'Look For Shared Libraries'. Your Library will appear in the other source pane.
Remember iPhoto must be running in both accounts for this to work.
If you want the other user to have the same access to the library as you: to be able to add, edit, organise, keyword etc. then:
Quit iPhoto in both accounts
Move the iPhoto Library Folder to an external HD set to ignore permissions. You could also use a dmg.
(Some people have had success putting the library in the Users/ Shared folder. If you do this make sure the file permissions are set to allow read/write access to everyone.)
In each account in turn: Hold down the option (or alt) key and launch iPhoto. From the resulting dialogue, select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new library location. From that point on, this will be the default library location. Both accounts will have full access to the library, in fact, both accounts will 'own' it.
However, there is a catch with this system and it is a significant one. iPhoto is not a multi-user app., it does not have the code to negotiate two users simultaneously writing to the database, and trying will cause db corruption. So only one user at a time, and back up, back up back up.
Also you can use iPhoto Library Manager to move albums, events or pics plus metadata between libraries.
Regards
TD

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