1 x iMac and 1 x Macbook Pro with iPhoto 11 on each and an external network hard drive
Sorry in advance if this has been asked already - I scrolled down to see but could'nt find it......
Anyways, here is my situation: I have approx 7 yrs worth of digital photos stored on my external network hard drive. I've recently turfed my Dell and replaced it with an iMac as my family's main computer. Now I have 2 Apple computers at home - the iMac and a Macbook Pro that I am its only user. Both have iPhoto 11. I've been playing around with the pgm and have been importing photos from my external network hard drive (not many but enough to get the idea of iPhoto) on both computers only to realize that the work I do on one is not reflected when I go on the other. After reading some of the comments in this forum, I now realize that a copy of the pics go right on the computer's hard drive.
Is it possible to just edit, etc the pics on my external network hard drive and replace the old pic with the edited one?
Also, is it possible, for the work I do on pics on one mac to appear in the other's iphoto library? Meaning, when I do "events" and "faces" on one mac, is it possible to see that work on the other?
If not, then at this rate, I will have 3 copies of the same photo - one on the external network hard drive, one on the iMac, and one on the Macbook pro!!! I've read some stuff ref iCloud and it sounds like this could be a possible solution but am not sure.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
Thx,
Craig
Sort of?
Is it possible to just edit, etc the pics on my external network hard drive and replace the old pic with the edited one?
That's a straight no. iPhoto is a Digital Asset Manager and as such always preserves the original file. Basically, to iPhoto, your original file is the "digital negative" and it protects that the same way a film shooter will protect his negative. So it will never edit or replace an original file.
Also, is it possible, for the work I do on pics on one mac to appear in the other's iphoto library? Meaning, when I do "events" and "faces" on one mac, is it possible to see that work on the other?
There are a couple of ways to make this happen.
A: If you only edit nd manipulate on one machine, then simply back up the library to the other machine. Net result: The same editions of the same photos on both machines.
B: Create one Library and share it across both machines - best way to do this is to put it on an external hard drive and then plug that into whatever machine needs the library at whatever time.
But... This can't be your "network hard drive". The disk needs to be formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
I suspect that iCloud will make all of this moot, but until we see it in action we won't know for sure.
Regards
TD
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