Airport and personal file sharing between macbook pros

My wife and I each have 2.2 ghz macbook pros. I wanted to transfer about 30 photos from iphoto on my macbook pro to my wife's macbook pro; I turned on personal file sharing on my computer (the "host"), exported the jpegs from iphoto to my shared folder, and then used the wireless network to mount the shared folder on my wife's desktop. She downloaded the jpegs onto her computer from my shared folder but found that 5 of them would not open-- preview gave a message that it couldn't recognize the files. The other 25 photos seemed to open fine. I went back to my computer and e-mailed the same 5 photos that preview couldn't recognize, and my wife's computer had no trouble opening the e-mailed photos with preview.
Does anyone have any idea what went wrong with using personal file sharing and airport to transfer the photos between the 2 macbook pros? All software and firmware on both computers are both up to date. Thanks very much.

Not sure what went wrong, but there's an easier way ...
On the source Mac open iPhoto Preferences/Sharing and check "Share my photos" and "Share entire Library"
On the destination Mac open iPhoto Preferences/Sharing and check "Look for shared photos"

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