Iphoto Library to Windows Photo Gallery

I have a large photo collection in iPhoto. My wife just bought a windows machine (divorce?) running Vista. Both machines are on our home LAN and share a single internet connection.
My bride wants all of our family photos available to her on her pc. How can I share my iPhoto library or get her system to import the photos from mine? Like I said it is a large collection and burning disks is out of the question. Any help would be appreciated.

Hi there,
You should be able to do this one of 2 ways. But first, your bride's PC needs to have a fully functioning Photo indexing app. Something that auto detects images, files and stores them. If she's got something like this (and almost all do) you two can the share photos.
First way would be to copy and paste your iPhoto library folder originals onto an external, next connect external to the PC and theoretically, the app should detect and ask whether you would like to import photos...
If you can somehow network the PC and Mac, you could also transfer this way. I don't like this method, I feel it's a bit risky and you would have to turn off the auto detect image app on her PC and your Mac for obvious reasons and just navigate to the orginal folders... if it were me, and I could network the 2, I would copy and move the Orginals folder to my desktop and import from this location...
Rick
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