Iphoto/icloud/library question

I am confused about the iphoto features. I thought when I clicked on the photo tab in the library section on the left that was showing me pictures that were saved to the hard drive. But I do see that it says photo stream. What is the difference in that and the icloud tab farther down on the left. I think that after like 1000 pictures photos get deleted from your photo stream, so i am just trying to figure out how not to lose pictures. Do i need to be saving pictures on my hard drive?

Photos in the Library section (Events, Photos, Faces, Places) are saved in your iPhoto Library on your hard drive. Photos in the iCloud section are in your Photo Stream. If a Photo Stream photo has been added to your library then it will appear in both places. You can set iPhoto to automatically add new Photo Stream photos to your Library by going to the iPhoto menu item Preferences, click on iCloud at the top of the Preferences window and select "Automatic Import" under Photo Stream.

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Yes, Sorry, I had no luck and then put it aside, meaning to come back to it.
Apple is increasingly doing things in convoluted, obscure and clumsy ways.
Exactly what we poo-poo as Un-Maclike when everyone else does it.
I swear aliens have invaded Cupertino and taken over Apple. The Spaceship they are building there is to take them back to their home system.
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How can I share a large iPhoto '11 library on multiple computers (I am the user on all) through iCloud?

I have three residences, and in each I have an iMac and a MacBook Pro (sixe devices in total, I do not like carrying computers through airports :-)) and I have an iPhoto '11 Library with 3,000 photos+. I know I can use Photo Stream to access recent photos via iCloud from these multiple devices. My question is: can I create a single iPhoto library stores in iCloud so that all my devices can in fact sync their libraries through iCloud?

No
That is not a feature of iPhoto or iCloud
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HT204264 iCloud library beta on iOS and iPhoto on Mac Book Pro

I turned on iCloud library beta on my new Ipad Air 2 and my iPhone 5. Photo stream disappears as well as camera roll. All photos in the cloud are now in ALL PHOTOS on the Album page of the the iOS devices. I chose to keep the originals on my devices rather then optimizing space. I am not that trusting especially in beta form.
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Restart the Mac again.
Next time:
Option 1
Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Rebuild iPhoto Library Database from automatic backup.
If that fails:
Option 2
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. This will create a new library based on data in the albumdata.xml file. Not everything will be brought over - no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your albums and keywords back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one. .
Regards
TD

IPhoto, iCloud Photos, QTKitServer-iPhoto and QTKitServer-Aperture all hanging

iMac mid-2011, 8 GB RAM, 1TB Internal Hard Drive, Mac OS X Mavericks 10.9, iPhoto 5, Aperture 3.5
My iPhoto library, iCloud photos and some Mac OS X Mavericks file called QTKitServer-iPhoto and QTKitServer-Aperture keep hanging and not responding. Tried repairing permissions and repairing iPhoto library multiple times. Tried re-downloading Mavericks and that did not fix it. Called Apple Support. They said they could not help me beyond what I had already tried (Apple Online Support has really gone downhill since the last time I called) and to go to my local Apple retail store to see a Genius.
After running hardware tests, the Genius told me that my iPhoto library was too large and that was what was causing iPhoto and iCloud photos to hang. Even though he acknowledged that the QTKitServer operating system file is not supposed to hang. The Genius put in an additional 8 Mb memory to see if adding more memory would help (apparantly iPhoto is supposed to give back some memory when you close it and it does not). So Apple is not flushing memory when an App is closed. Apple's apparent solution is to add more memory that you have to purchase. However, the same three files kept not responding even with the additional memory. So I passed on the additional memory until I get the iPhoto problem solved. He also said my external hard drive, a WD 2TB hard drive that I bought from the same Apple retail store two or three years ago, looked like it was failing because there were lots of disk I/O errors in the system log, even though the drive appears to work fine and disk utility reported no problems when I ran Verify Disk on the external WD drive two days ago. I do not use this drive hardly at all (I backup my iMac to my Time Capsule), exept to keep a backup copy of my iPhoto library and Documents folder, and it has lots of original pictures that are not in my existing iPhoto library. I copied my iPhoto library and Documents folder to it last night and they seemed to copy fine.
So if my iPhoto library is really too big, and that is what the issue is, my problem is that there is no apparent way to break up my existing iPhoto Library into multiple small iPhoto libraries, without losing all of my keywords, titles, photo edits, event names, album names, folders and projects etc. The last time I tried breaking up my iPhoto library into smaller iPhoto libraries, even though I told iPhoto to export keywords and titles, it did not. And the Genius did not know if it would work now or not.
My question is to those of you who have large iPhoto libraries and are using Mac OS X Mavericks and iCloud Photos - how big are your iPhoto libraries? What is too big? Does anyone have an iPhoto library the size of mine that is working fine (who is also using Mac OS X Mavericks and iCloud)? When I talked to Apple online support, they said big iPhoto libraries are 100,000 photos and up. The Genius said anything over 1,000 is big. That's quite a spread. Currently I have 24,000 photos, most of which have been edited in some way or another, and about 1/2 of which have new titles, mulitple keywords assigned, faces and places assigned, etc., since I imported the original master photos. The Genius told me to duplicate my existing iPhoto library, create a new iPhoto library, import all of the folders in the iPhoto database except the Masters folder, and see if iPhoto still hung. If it did, he said it was all the data attached to the photos that is the problem, in which case I would need to create another new iPhoto library and import only the Masters file (images only). I think if I import only the Masters from my existing library, I will lose not only all of my keywords and titles, but also all of my photo edits, event names, album names, folder names, projects etc.
So I wasted an entire afternoon at the Apple retail store, only to buy a new external hard drive (that I may not even need), was told to buy more memory (that did not solve the problem - I passed on that), and I am no further ahead than I was when I went in. I need to know if there is any way that I can break up my iPhoto library into smaller libraries and retain all of the metadata and photo edits?
Finally, when I got home, I discovered that my husband with whom I had shared some of my photo streams, still had photos showing in shared photo streams that I had removed from iCloud two days ago. It removed them on my iMac - the place where those streams originated, but apparently left the thumbnails in the shared photo streams of everyone that I had shared the photos with. As soon as I clicked on an actual photo on my husband's iMac, the photo suddenly vanished and all the photo thumbnails in the stream did too. But the empty shared photo stream still remained on my husband's iMac and he had to physically say "Unsubscribe" to get it to go away. So something is not working right with iCloud photos, which is no doubt why iCloud photos is one of the files that keeps not responding.
Then, when I set up my iMac again this evening, and looked at iCloud on my iMac, all of my photo streams (not just the four that I had removed two days ago) were gone! And when I went into Aperture, the photo streams were all there, but with zero photos in them. Now last night when I boxed up my iMac to take to Apple, those photo streams were all there and they all had photos in them. So where did they go? And why, when you are the originator of a photo stream, and you tell iCloud to remove the photo stream, it says that it does but it leaves remnants of it with the other people you have shared it with? It seems to me that iPhoto, iCloud, and the fact that Apple is not flushing memory when an app closes is the problem with my iMac, not the size of my iPhoto library, or my external hard drive, or the fact that 8Gb of memory is apparently no longer enough memory for decent response with Mavericks (which I thought was designed to help solve some of the memory issues that OS X has).
I need help and help is apparently nowhere to be found at Apple.
Is there anyone out there who can help me?

If you're using iPhoto 5 as you say then, yes, 24k photos is heading close to the Limit of 25k. iPhoto 6 is good for 250,000 images, iPhoto 11 is good for 1,000,000.
I'm going to guess that's a typo and that you have iPhoto 9.5.
I've simply never heard of "too many photos" causing the problem you describe. You don't need more memory. You don't need to break up the Library. "Flushing Memory" is a non-isssue. One of the big improvements in 10.9 is in memory management.
There are a couple of ways to break up a Library while preserving everything. It's dead easy with Aperture - export projects as Library - you can do it with iPhoto simply by duplicating the Library and deleting from the two libraries or use iPhoto Library Manager.
But, as I say, 24k is a small Library. My main library is more than twice the size of that.
Are Aperture and iPhoto using the same Library?
As a Test:
Hold down the option (or alt) key and launch iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Create Library'
Import a few pics into this new, blank library. Is the Problem repeated there?
Post back with the result.

Using Aperture 2 to Edit Iphoto 08 Library

I imported my Iphoto 08 library into Aperture 2 as reference images so I can still view my iphoto library on my HD Samsung through my PS3 using Medialink, after I edit the images with Aperture. My question is will there be any problems if I edit / delete / change images in my iphoto using Aperture ? Are there any tricks or things to be careful about ? I don't want to corrupt my library. I am a recent convert to mac (SR Macbook) and iphoto 08 did a great job with importing and initial organizing the mess of photo from all my windows machines. Aperture 2 seems to have better editing and file management of my resultant 25000 + library. I'd like to use both iphoto and Aperture together.

I import into Iphoto first for a couple of reasons. If I have some videos on my camera, which i usually do, Iphoto will capture them for viewing or editing later. Aperture won't. Second, Time Machine works with Iphoto, not with Aperture. So backups are automatic with Iphoto. With Aperture, you can backup with vaults. I import all my images into Aperture (as referenced images) mostly so I can manage them, IE, organize using metadata, and place into folders by year / month, etc. Also, when you do edit in Aperture, no extra copies are made, like in Iphoto, because, Aperture takes the master from the iphoto library and applies your edits on the fly. You can continually edit and change the image in Aperture and it only will render and make a new image / master when you want to export.
As far as keeping track of various version of images, after organizing and editing in Aperture, you can place a rating on images, or place them in an album of good stuff (which is just a link to the real image), to then export into a new iphoto event of good stuff, etc
Alternately, you could import the images into Aperture as masters, and Aperture will make another copy, which means you'll have two of each image taking up twice as much space. Depending how many images and how much hard drive space you have will determine if this works. You could keep either or both Aperture and / or Iphoto libraries on external hard drives. You could import directly into Aperture and only export good stuff into iphoto, if you don't have any videos to manage and you're willing to backup with Aperture vault.
I setup the external editor in Aperture to use CS3 PS. When you select edit in external editor, Aperture renders a new master which you edit in PS and end up with a new master in Aperture.
Good luck. I went through several workflows with Aperture trial and almost gave up. In the end though, after I saw what Aperture can do, Iphoto along wasn't good enough and I came up with something that works for me.

Need help restoring iPhoto 08 Library into iPhoto 11

Ok, I have spent hours trying to figure this out on my own. I'm not being lazy but I need help! I have a black macbook (2009) that had Leopard (not Snow) and iPhoto 08. It crashed. I had a time machine backup on external drive. I got a new hard drive installed and they upgraded me to Lion and iPhoto 11. I messed up and started the system without hooking up to time machine. I tried to use migration assistant. It imported only imported 400 pics of my many thousand pics.
I did several things: I tried to rebuild the library, look for orphans, etc. I deleted the ProjectDBVersion.plist, Projects.db, Projects.db-journal files as someone suggested. I deleted the new iphoto 11 library. i dragged the my old iphoto library from time machine. I held down option and tried to build it again from the old library. I still get the same 400 pics. I even tried the free version of Photo Library Manager. It created the same library with 400 pics. (not sure if I know how to use this app right).
If I open the new iphoto 11 library, I can see my pics in the "Masters" file. I was able to drag these to my desktop and then put in iphoto but does this method save my edits? Should I drag the "Modified" pics into iphoto instead? I don't care much about keywords, I just want my edits. I also don't want old deleted photos put back into iphoto.
another question, time machine (TM) is not turned on yet with new hard drive and OS. it doesn't recognize my external drive as TM. It asks if I want to designate it as TM. If I do this, will it delete my old backup (with all my important data) and start a new backup of my new hard drive which doesn't have all the pics yet.
I don't have a copy of Lion so if I do a complete restore, I will have to buy it and add all info again. Is this my best option? Would it really make a difference?
Terrance, you out there?
Thanks for any help!

It might start backing up your new drive but will not erase what's on it as long as there is sufficient space. Also you can turn on TM and exclude your entire HD via the TM Options pane.
Then go to your Pictures folder and enter Time Machine. Go back to the appropriate date, select the library and use the Restore button.
OT
NOTE: if you have trouble entering TM's backups go to the Lion forum and ask your question there. Also do a search there for Time Machine so see if there are any similar topics there already.

IPhoto as Library and Adobe Elements Organizer as download client

I wanted to use Adobe Elements 9 Organizer as the download client as I can actually see image files saved and grouped by folders and iPhoto as library and creative authoring.
Will using iPhoto to create library from Pictures Folder (those saved by Elements Organizer) duplicate the photos that are already in that folder? I kind think that iPhoto will copy those photos into its own. I worry about duplicating the JPEG files in my Pictures Folder.
Thanks.

I'm with Larry when he says to pick one horse and ride it. This can get quite confusing very quickly.
To answer your specific question:
Will using iPhoto to create library from Pictures Folder (those saved by Elements Organizer) duplicate the photos that are already in that folder
By default, yes, but you can set iPhoto not to. But note: a: What Happens when you do - for instance, that various versions of the files will not be available except through iPhoto, which will confuse your proposed system, and b: The various caveats to running a Referenced Library.
*How to do it:*
Simply go to iPhoto Menu -> Preferences -> Advanced and uncheck 'Copy Files to the iPhoto Library on Import'.
*What Happens:*
Now iPhoto will not copy the files, but rather simply reference them on your HD. To do this it will create an alias in the Originals Folder that points to your file. It will still create a thumbnail and, if you modify the pics, a Modified version within the iPhoto Library Folder.
*Some things to consider:*
1. Importing and deleting pics are more complex procedures. You have to to put the files where they will be stored before importing them. When you delete them you'll need to remove the files from the HD yourself.
2. You cannot move or rename the files on your system or iPhoto will lose track of them on systems prior to 10.5 and iPhoto 08. Even with the later versions issues can still arise if you move the referenced files to new volumes or between volumes.
3. Most importantly, migrating to a new disk or computer can be much more complex.
4. Because iPhoto has no tools for managing Referenced Files, if, for some reason, the path to the photos changes then you could find yourself resolving aliases for +each photo in the Library+ one by one.
My own opinion:
I've yet to see a good reason to run iPhoto in referenced mode unless you're using two photo organiser
If disk space is an issue, you can run an entire iPhoto Library from an external disk:
1. Quit iPhoto
2. Copy the iPhoto Library as an entity from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk.
3. Hold down the option (or alt) key while launching iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new location. From that point on this will be the default location of your library.
4. Test the library and when you're sure all is well, trash the one on your internal HD to free up space.
If you're concerned about accessing the files, There are many, many ways to access your files in iPhoto:
*For Users of 10.5 and later*
You can use any Open / Attach / Browse dialogue. On the left there's a Media heading, your pics can be accessed there. Command-Click for selecting multiple pics.
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You can access the Library from the New Message Window in Mail:
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*For users of 10.4 and later* ...
Many internet sites such as Flickr and SmugMug have plug-ins for accessing the iPhoto Library. If the site you want to use doesn’t then some, one or any of these will also work:
To upload to a site that does not have an iPhoto Export Plug-in the recommended way is to Select the Pic in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Export and export the pic to the desktop, then upload from there. After the upload you can trash the pic on the desktop. It's only a copy and your original is safe in iPhoto.
This is also true for emailing with Web-based services. However, if you're using Gmail you can use iPhoto2GMail
If you use Apple's Mail, Entourage, AOL or Eudora you can email from within iPhoto.
If you use a Cocoa-based Browser such as Safari, you can drag the pics from the iPhoto Window to the Attach window in the browser.
*If you want to access the files with iPhoto not running*:
For users of 10.6 and later:
You can download a free Services component from MacOSXAutomation which will give you access to the iPhoto Library from your Services Menu. Using the Services Preference Pane you can even create a keyboard shortcut for it.
For Users of 10.4 and later:
Create a Media Browser using Automator (takes about 10 seconds) or use this free utility Karelia iMedia Browser
Other options include:
1. *Drag and Drop*: Drag a photo from the iPhoto Window to the desktop, there iPhoto will make a full-sized copy of the pic.
2. *File -> Export*: Select the files in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Export. The dialogue will give you various options, including altering the format, naming the files and changing the size. Again, producing a copy.
3. *Show File*: Right- (or Control-) Click on a pic and in the resulting dialogue choose 'Show File'. A Finder window will pop open with the file already selected.
*An Alternative*
Set Elements as an External Editor in iPhoto: You can set Photoshop (or any image editor) as an external editor in iPhoto. (Preferences -> General -> Edit Photo: Choose from the Drop Down Menu.) This way, when you double click a pic to edit in iPhoto it will open automatically in Photoshop or your Image Editor, and when you save it it's sent back to iPhoto automatically. This is the only way that edits made in another application will be displayed in iPhoto.
Note that iPhoto sends a copy+ of the file to Photoshop, so when you save be sure to use the Save command, not Save As... If you use Save As then you're creating a new file and iPhoto has no way of knowing about this new file. iPhoto is preserving your original anyway.
Regards
TD

Backup iphoto 09 library error

Arrrggghhhhh, please help me.
I am trying to move my iphoto 09 library to my 2 TB Time Capsule. The library size is showing as 96GB and my poor imac hd (intel) is only 320GB so is being dominated by images and movies (approx 16000). I thought I could put the library on the time capsule and keep the hd for music and documents. My question is two fold:
-Why when I am copying and pasting this library as a whole to the Time Capsule would it be aborting after about 8 hrs saying error -36? (Iphoto is closed and energy saving options are off)
-Is there a way for me to reduce the size of the library and rebuild to just include the photos that I can physically see in iPhoto? (any originals are long forgotten about.) That way I can use the time Capsule as a back up rather than a single storage place.
Many thanks

1. This is not a suitable location for the Library and not an intended use for the Time Capsule. If you want to move the Library off your internal HD buy a Firewire or USB disk, format it Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and use that.
2 A -36 error means that the process has hit a file that cannot be read or written - locked or damaged in other words. Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Include the option to check and repair Library permissions.
3. The only part of an iPhoto Library that can be removed safely is the iPod Photo Cache, but that's pointless as it will be recreated the next time you sync with an iPad/iPod/iPhone. Other than that Don't change anything in the iPhoto Library Folder via the Finder or any other application. iPhoto depends on the structure as well as the contents of this folder. Moving things, renaming things deleting them or otherwise making changes will prevent iPhoto from working and could even cause you to damage or lose your photos.
Regards
TD

Adding iPhoto'04 library to iPhoto'11 that already has a library

I have been running iPhoto'09 on my MBP for about 1.5 years and just installed iPhoto'11 and all appears to be fine with the 1500 or so pictures in the current iPhoto Library for iPhoto'11. I have about 4,000 pictures on an 6 year old G4 with iPhoto'04 that I want to put on the MBP.
Based on reading other posts I am in the process of copying the "iPhoto Library" folder from iPhoto'04 to another drive (it is currently being copied to a 8 GB USB drive as I type this message). Before this is copied from the USB drive into the Pictures folder on the MBP, should it be renamed to something different than "iPhoto Library" (ie. iPhoto 04 Library), since there is already an active "iPhoto Library" file (a Package File) in the Pictures folder? Once I have the iPhoto 04 Library file copied to the Pictures folder on the MPB, is the next step to launch iPhoto'11 with the option key pressed and select the iPhoto 04 Library? If I followed other discussions, this will then convert the iPhoto 04 Library to iPhoto'11 format.
After this is seems like iPhoto Library Manager would be a good way to work with the two libraries in order to arrange the pictures and albums as I like.
Thanks for any feedback or suggestions on the above process.

Hello TD -I solved the problem late last night before I saw your reply about using iPhoto Library Manager to rebuild the library in question. Here is what I did. Note that I have been using iPhoto version 9.1.1 all along, so it was not an issue of library updates losing data that was initially reported by many users of the original 9.0 version.
1. The library I had been using with iPhoto'09 was successfully updated when I initially upgraded to iPhoto'11, so all was fine with that. The problem was that iPhoto'11 was not able to update a library brought over from iPhoto'04 on my old G4 tower.
2. After reading that some users were going back to iPhoto'09, I thought I might try that as a way to read the iPhoto'04 library. Deleted iPhoto'11 and associated package receipts from my MBP, but left the new iPhoto'11 library in the Pictures folder. Installed iPhoto'09 from the iLife'09 disk.
3. Stared iLife'09 with the option key pressed and selected the iPhoto'04 library. Happy days - it opened the iPhoto'04 Library just fine and updated all the information (albums, titles, etc.) as it should. The library icon in the Picture folder was no longer an actual folder (as it was with iPhoto 4), but was now the iPhoto icon.
4. Used the iLife'11 disk to update iLife'09 back to iLife'11 on the MBP. After this was completed I used Software Update to get version 9.1.1 of the software loaded before using the program. Started version 9.1.1 with the option key and selected the iPhoto'04 library that had been updated with iPhoto'09 and it was correctly updated to iPhoto'11 format with all the information intact.
5. Problem resolved after getting helpful suggestions throughout the forum. While this process did not answer the problem about iLife'11 not being able to open the old iPhoto'04 library, the final solution worked just fine. I'll also be buying iPhoto Library Manger to help keep things in order, since I now have a library for the iPhoto'09 data that was updated and the second library for the iPhoto'04 library that was updated (there is also a 3rd library I'll bring in from my wife's MacBook).
TD - thanks for you time and for helping to narrow down the possible issues for this problem.

How do I import photos from external hard drive to iCloud library?

I have saved many photos to an external hard drive for security. I would like to store at least some of them in iCloud so I have direct access from Photos. Is this possible please?

how do I import photos from external hard drive to iCloud library?
Just like you'd do it with iPhoto. Drag the photos or folder of photos into the open Photos Library window or onto the Photos icon in the Dock.
If you have the iCloud Photo Library activated in Photos the new photos will be copied to the online iCloud Photo Library along with the rest of the photos in your library. Remember, with the iCloud Photo Liberty it's all the photos or none. You may have to purchase additional iCloud space to store all of your photos.

Is the new iPhoto '08 Library syncing in entirety every time?

The new storage for iPhoto Library in iPhoto '08 is a package. It SEEMS like PHD is sensing any minute change inside (which update the package's modified date) and then copying/syncing the ENTIRE library. For some users, this can be 15GB of pain.
Can anyone else confirm or deny?

OK, but please, there's no warranty or anything of that nature and it's a bit specific to my situation, but here goes:
1. I created a script at ~/Library/Scripts/Applications/iPhoto/Backup Library.sh
By putting it at that path, it shows up nicely in the AppleScript menu extra only when iPhoto is active. Thus, it can be manually triggered by the user at any time.
So, here's the script:
<pre class="command">#!/bin/sh
SERVER="afpserver.domain.net"
synclibrary()
    if test -d "/Volumes/Users/$USER/Pictures/iPhoto Library";
    then
        /usr/bin/rsync -av --delete-after "/Users/$USER/Pictures/iPhoto Library/" "/Volumes/Users/$USER/Pictures/iPhoto Library"
    else
        echo "iPhoto Library is not available."
    fi
echo `date` "* Syncing \"iPhoto Library\""
if test -d /Volumes/Users;
then
    echo "Users is available."
else
    echo "Users is not available. Mounting..."
    mount_needed=1
fi
if test "$mount_needed";
then
    mkdir "/Volumes/Users"
    sleep 1
    if `mount_afp -o nobrowse "afp://$USER@$SERVER/Users" "/Volumes/Users"`;
    then
        echo "succeeded."
        synclibrary
        echo -n "Unmounting Users..."
        umount "/Volumes/Users"
        echo "done."
    else
        echo "failed."
        rm -r "/Volumes/Users"
    fi
else
    synclibrary
fi
echo `date` "* Done Syncing \"iPhoto Library\""
exit 0
</pre>
Now, while I've been doing all sort of scripting for many years, shell scripting's a bit new to me, so any suggestions/corrections welcomed. I tried to mirror what Home Folder syncing does in this deployment's situation, which is:
1. If the user has manually mounted the Users sharepoint, this script realizes it's there, makes sure the iPhoto Library folder is present at the right remote location, and does its thing.
2. If the user does NOT have the Users sharepoint mounted, but has an active Kerberos ticket, I mount the sharepoint, run the script and then disconnect the sharepoint afterwards. I do this in a way that the sharepoint does not show up to the user.
Does that sound right to everyone?
OK, now to run the script automatically, I use launchd. Cron is deprecated.
So, the launch script goes in ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.iPhoto.rsync.plist and looks like this:
<pre class="command"><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>com.apple.iphoto.rsync</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>/Users/username/Library/Scripts/Applications/iPhoto/Backup Library.sh</string>
    </array>
    <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
    <string>/Users/username/Library/Logs/MirrorAgent.log</string>
    <key>StandardOutPath</key>
    <string>/Users/username/Library/Logs/MirrorAgent.log</string>
    <key>StartInterval</key>
    <integer>21600</integer>
</dict>
</plist>
</pre>
You can set the StartInterval to whatever you want. It's represented in seconds. I chose 3 hours, which is the same interval that I use for PHD.
I am also using the MirrorAgent.log to report all output and my script tried to make that output look as similar to the PHD output as possible. Thus, I can track it all in the one log.
There is ONE problem with this launchd script, which I can't seem to surpass, and that it the fact that I have to use FULL paths.... I can't use ~/Library/etc/etc which means I have to make the launchd plist for each user. Any workarounds for that would be greatly appreciated.
Any questions, just ask!
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ICloud Library stopped sync'ing

I have Photos.app and iCloud Library on two computers, sync'ing with an iPhone 6. Everything was working perfectly for a week - any changes on one device showed up on the others very quickly. Then suddenly my main computer stopped receiving updates. Newly shot photos show up on my laptop and at icloud.com, but never appear on my main machine. Photos on the main machine says "Last updated Monday" (it's now Friday).
I've tried restarting, and tried pausing and resuming sync in the prefs, but nothing seems to get it going again. All machines are on the same wifi network, the phone is fully charged, all updates are applied.
Ideas?

Solved! But it wasn't pretty. In case it's helpful to others, here's how I solved it:
I finally got desperate and in the preferences, disabled iCloud Photo Library, then after a few minutes, re-enabled it. When I re-enabled it, it said I had 86 "referenced files" that it needed permission to access. After some Googling, I realized that referenced files are files that don't live within the Photos library folder, but that are linked to. It then told me to find these referenced files and pull down File | Consolidate to bring them into the Photos library. It did not tell me *how* to find them, but I got creative and made a Smart Album of all images with type "referenced."
The smart album revealed the problem images, but when I selected some and pulled down File | Consolidate, Photos said it needed permission and told me to navigate to ~/Pictures/iPhoto Library/Masters/2012 and put up a file navigation dialog. So the "referenced" files were still in iPhoto! Huh? My other 20,000 images had migrated over just fine. No idea why this was. But here's where the 2nd problem began. I *could not* navigate to that folder, since "iPhoto Library" does not appear in the Finder as a folder. So the dialog was telling me to do something impossible.
After puzzling on this for a while, I realized that the problem could be solved by deleting the references to external files from Photos and re-importing them manually. I launched iPhoto and manually found all 86 images (they were from three albums and fortunately I'm good about titling and labeling, so was able to find them easily. I then exported them from iPhoto as full res originals, deleted the references in Photos, and imported the old problem images as if they were new.
Photos then churned against iCloud overnight. By morning, it had become unstuck, and the photos I've shot over the past week are now present.
So the problem was not the new photos, but some old photos that for some reason had not migrated over from iPhoto properly. And Photos was recommending a fix that was impossible to achieve the way it was instructing me to. What a mess.

Share iphoto'13 library to ipad or iphone

Hello, I would like to know if it was possible to share iphoto'13 library to ipad or iphone, and which apps to do it?s

You can't do with photos the same way you can with music. The only way you can share those photos with your iPad and not have to upload those photos to the iPad is to create Shared Photo Streams from iPhoto on your Mac.
Each shared PS can hold up to 5000 photos. You can have up to 100 shared streams.
See this Apple document for further details: iCloud: My Photo Stream and iCloud Photo Sharing limits.
OT

IPhoto 09 hangs up during analysing / converting iPhoto 2 Library

Hi
I recently bought a new MPB (OS X 10.6.1 / 3.06GHz / 8GB RAM).
I restored / copied the user data from the old Mac Book (OS X 10.4.11 / PowerPC G4 1.33GHz / 1.5GB RAM) to the new MPB. Now I have got a problem with my photos which I manage on both systems with iPhoto.
*On the MPB iPhoto "V 8.1 (415)" blocks / hangs up during analysing / converting the old iPhoto Library "iPhoto V2.0.1 (3E89)"*
Old iPhoto Library: ca. 8000 Photos, ca. 23GB
What did I do:
- from my backup of the old system I moved / copied the folder "iPhoto Library" to the new MPB into the folder "Pictures"
- I started iPhoto
- I selected the "iPhoto Library" as the Medithek
- iPhoto started to verify and to update / convert the Mediathek
- shortly after iPhoto is blocked / hangs up
I have absolutely no idea why this happens.
Questions:
How do I get my entire iPhoto 02 Library working with the new iPhoto?
Did anybody have the same / a similar problem and how was it solved?
Is there any way to copy manually the old Library into the new packetised iPhoto Library (if yes - what do I need to do)?
Do I need to copy any other files (e.g. preferences) to the MBP so that iPhoto does the conversion of the old Library correctly?
Any hints / solutions are very welcome.
Looking foreward to get my photos back to work with the new MPB.
Thanks guinevra

This can be cause by a damaged file or a dodgy file permission somewhere in this Library.
Download BatchMod from
http://macchampion.com/arbysoft/
And apply it to the iPhoto Library Folder using the settings found here:
http://homepage.mac.com/toad.hall/.Pictures/Forum/BatChmod.png
(Credit to Old Toad for this one).
and try again.
Regards
TD

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