IPhoto shared album in Mavericks - no photos

Upgraded to Mavericks and latest iPhoto 9.5 (902.7). When I open iPhoto, no photos are there. They were stored in a sparse disk image file at Users/Shared/iPhoto_disk_image.sparseimage that used to mount automatically.

Is there a library on that Disk Image? If so:
Hold down the option (or alt) key key and launch iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library'

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I upgraded my iPhoto library to Photos yesterday and the main photo content migrated fine. I have two OS X devices - a MacBook Pro and a Mac Mini.
On my MacBook Pro, if I enable the sidebar in Photos, I see:
Photos
Shared
Activity
<Other shared albums - both my own and from another iCloud user>
Albums<Various Albums>
On my Mac Mini, I only see:
Photos
Albums<Various Albums>
So Photos on the Mac Mini is not picking up on existing shared albums. If I go to View | Shared it prompts me to "Start Sharing" (as if I haven't done this before). If I click Start Sharing and then create a test album the sharing dialog just vanishes after I select and email address to share with.
Anybody else seeing this? Any ideas?

Ok. I followed another suggestion and tried restarting the computer. It seemed to bring up the libraries. At first, I saw no pictures from the shared photos as they reported zero photos when they came up. However, leaving it open for a while seemed to bring back more and more of the libraries, and that was only after restarting the computer a 2nd time. I did get almost all my shared photos back, but each time it seems to stop and not bring all the photos back. I'll try restarting another time as it seems to be the big thing here.
The syncing activity in Yosemite seems to have some internal limit, where it stops attempting to grab photos from the stream and/or share, and then Photos only tries looking again after a computer restart, not a restart of the application.

IPhoto sharing - album sorting order?

I share my entire iPhoto library using sharing in the iPhoto prefs.
When I'm on my other mac, I can see all the shared albums, but they are sorted in a random order ?!?
Not the same way I sorted them, not alphabetical and not by date?

Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
How can u identify which pics in iphoto are not jpeg?
Create a smart album with the following criteria: File Name does not contain jpg.
That will show you all non jpg files in your library.

Iphoto shared album in iCloud not showing all images to my IOS devices bar Mac

I created an album today with 118 pictures in it. I shared with a number of people using iCloud. When I visited the album to show someone through my iPhone it only contains 20 images. The same happens on my iPad. In iPhoto when I select the album I see 118 images.
Incidentally, when I create a new album in iPhoto it copies some images from the first album I created into it and I then have to delete.

Have you tried this:
Originally posted by adamnash on Oct 19, 2014 6:52 PM
- I quit iPhoto
- I launched System Preferences, went to iCloud, turned off Photo
- I launched iPhoto
- I verified that iCloud was off
- I quit iPhoto
- I went back to System Preferences,, went to iCloud, turned on Photo
- I launched iPhoto

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A friend has shared an iPhoto album with me. Great. Thank you. I have viewed the photos but how do I get rid of that annoying "1" number in my iPhoto icon in my Dock and inside the iCloud application? Thanks.

Your friend may have posted a comment on one of the photos or added a new photo.
click on the speeech bubbles to view any comments:
The icon will will show a number, whenever the photo stream changes, and the number will vanish, when you view the changes.

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One month ago I installed Mac OS X (10.5.4) on my iBook G4 to resolve issues with my browser and hotmail. Today after having loaded new photos into iPhotos within the last month, I entered iPhotos and found the last two years of photos missing. The album names are there but no photos appear to the right when I click on the album name for photos imported from March 2006 to present. In fact the right side picture viewing area is grayed out as are the photo manipulation icons on the bottom of the screen. I had no iPhotos problems since purchasing my iBook G4 in February 2005 until now shortly after the OS upgrade. Any suggestions?
I have viewed other similar posts but those circumstances are slightly different from mine.

Brian
The database becomes corrupted from two principle causes:
1. The app is interrupted in the act of writing to the database - by a crash or force quit for instance
2. User activity in the iPhoto Library Folder - moving or renaming things.
If iPhoto Library Manager is not fully rebuilding then it suggests that your main db is so corrupted that it's not writing out to the Albumdata.xml file correctly. The only solution to that is to restore from a back up or start over new.
What version of iPhoto are you using? This is the iPhoto 08 forum, the original poster is referring to v5 and the instructions for starting over are different.
Regards
TD

I upgraded to the new photos app on my mac and don't see my shared albums

I do not see my shared albums on the new Photos app for iMacs. Where can you find them as my shared tab just says start sharing but doesn't display the previous shared albums I create on the the old iPhoto app.

Did you reboot the router too?

HT201077 Can only some subscribers to an iCloud Photo Sharing album post?

Seems like iCloud Photo Sharing is missing some key features. Or clarity.
I've created an iCloud Photo Sharing album, to share baby photos with family and friends.
I want to my wife to also be able to upload photos to this album, but not everyone else.
Can an iCloud Photo Sharing Album have 2 administrators?Or can we have individual subscriber settings to specify who gets to upload and who doesn't?
Do all subscribers see who the other subscribers are? Family dynamics dictate that some members should NOT see each other (or their comments), but I don't want to have to create an album for each of those people).
Do email (non-iOS) folks get an email notifications of newly uploaded photos? (families = many generations, some of which aren't iOS compatible) What's the fix?
Thanks!

Hi there Anthony Sbarro,
You may find the information in the article below helpful. If you delete the photos, they will only delete from the photostream.
iCloud: Shared Photo Streams FAQ
How do I delete photos from a shared stream?
If you are the owner of a shared stream, you can delete photos from the stream in the same way you delete any other photos from your iOS device, Mac, or Windows PC. The photos will be automatically deleted from the stream on all your devices and the devices of anyone subscribed to the stream. Any photos that were previously saved or downloaded from the shared stream to another location, such as the Camera Roll, will not be deleted from that location. Learn more about deleting shared photos.
-Griff W.

ICloud not posting to shared albums

I have used the iCloud shared album feature for quite some time and recently when I try at add photos from my iPhone to a shared album they do not seem to get posted. I click the "+" at the bottom of the album and it lets me select the photos. I then click "Done" at the top right and it brings up the "Post" message box. I click "Post", which normally then starts the posting of the photos in the album, but they do not post. I have tried different shared albums, different numbers of photos and nothing seems to work.

I just ran a Consolidate Originals (Move) on the library, and that seemed to help. Aperture was able to publish new photos to albums, but, and this seems odd, in the FB Add Photos dialog box (in Safari). photos I have added to my library over the last few days do not show up in the dialog box [item #8 above].

IPhoto doesn't show photos from shared albums

I enter iPhoto and I can see the folders shared with me .....however no photos are inside these folders.
One shared album was created by me via my iphone and shared with 20 people. I can see the photos on the phone and my ipad without issues but not on my MBP. MBP is running Yosemite and iPhoto 9.6.
Someone shared an album with me yesterday. Same thing. I can see the pics on both iphone and ipad but not on MBP. I can see the title of the album but it simply says "No Photos".
This is very weird. Please post if you know the answer to this issue.

I would turn off the iPhoto iCloud options and go to the system preferences and log out of iCloud - then log back in and turn the iPhoto options back on to refresh everything
LN

Going from Iphoto 9.5.1 mavericks to Yosemite photos

I am thinking about updating my imac to the new Yosemite, I really want to experience the new photos app. I do have many questions and concerns when it comes to the major migration. I have a precious iPhoto library that I do not want messed up. Right now I am running mavericks latest edition and iPhoto 9.5.1. My app store shows no update for iPhoto. It used to have it as an incompatible update but now it is gone. I know I need to update my iPhoto to 9.6.1 for a successful migration of my iPhoto library to the photos app. It shows iPhoto in the purchased list but the date on it is from November 2011, and there still is an update button, would I update it from there, after Yosemite update? The question is what is the exact process for this update so I wont lose all or any pictures and family videos from iPhoto? Its about 10 years worth of photos (220 gb) obviously I would back up my library on an exHD. But then, would I update my Imac to Yosemite? After update to Yosemite would I then open up the "app store" and hopefully find iPhoto as an update and update it to 9.6.1??? And then after that is updated, would I then open it up and make sure its all there, then open up "photos" app and let the migration begin to unfold?? I just am very worried that something might get messed up between iPhoto 9.5.1 and the new photos app, plus Im not sure how to update iPhoto if It is no longer available to update. why would apple do that?? I need some serious help and direction here. shoot!

The new Photos.app requires MacOS X 10.10.3. So you will need to update to he new system.
First of all, make sure you can revert to your current system before you upgrade. Make a full Time Machine backup, just in case. That will let you revert your Mac to the way it is now, see: OS X Mavericks: Revert to a previous OS X version
know I need to update my iPhoto to 9.6.1 for a successful migration of my iPhoto library to the photos app.
Once you upgrade to Yosemite, you should be able to install iPhoto 9.6.1, since iPhoto is showing on your Purchases tab of the App Store.
After the update to MacOS X 10.10.3, sign into the App Store and install iPhoto from the Purchases tab of the AppStore. If the update does not work, move the iPhoto application to the Trash (don't empty it). Read the Purchases page of the App Store by pressing ⌘R, then reinstall iPhoto.
Before you upgrade to Photos, prepare your Photos library. Some features are not yet supported in Photos.
You cannot add locations to photos in the Photos.app, so add all missing locations to your photos while still using iPhoto.
You cannot batch change titles and captions. If you still have titles to add, do that, while running iPhoto.
Photos has no events, only albums. So your smart albums based on smart rules for events will not work. You may want add keywords to the photos in these albums, so you can define a new rule based on keywords.
Apparently Photos has a bug, that lets it show the times for photos taken in a different timezone incorrectly. If you have many photos taken in different timezones, you may want to wait with the migration, until this has been fixed.

How can I add photo albums on my Mac to my iCloud shared album?

I recently upgraded from iPhoto to the new Photos app on my Mac. I then decided to try iCloud Photo Sharing. I have 10,000 photos on my Mac and I keep them organized by albums. I cannot figure out how to add entire selected existing photo albums in my Photos app which reside on my Mac to icloud Photo Sharing rather than adding photos one at a time. It would take me forever to go through my 10,000 photos to choose which ones I want to share. I just want to share certain albums. Please help! MacBook Pro Late 2011 Mac OS 10.10.3

Open the album and select all of the photos. click on the Share button and select the Shared Photo Album you want to add them to (or create a new shared album).

Photostream shares photos from shared albums to my computer, but "My Photostream" on my computer is empty. How can I get my photos to upload to my computer?

I have an iPhone 6 now, but I had an iPhone 5s previously. My Photostream stopped uploading pictures to my computer in November, 2013. If I create a shared album on my phone, it uploads to my PC, but "My Photostream" does not update. I've reset settings on the phone, turned sharing on and off, restarted my phone, updated operating systems, paid for more storage on iCloud.

Greetings monienon,
Welcome to the Apple Support Communities!
I understand that you have your My Photo Stream activated on your iPhone but nothing is showing in My Photo Stream in iPhoto. In this situation, I would recommend working through the suggested troubleshooting steps for this situation located in the attached article.
Get help using My Photo Stream - Apple Support
I don't see any photos in the My Photo Stream view of iPhoto or Aperture.
Make sure your Mac has an active Wi-Fi or Ethernet connection. If you can't connect to the Internet, updates to My Photo Stream won't appear in iPhoto or Aperture. You can use these steps to troubleshoot your Internet connection on your Mac.
From your Mac, choose System Preferences > iCloud.
Make sure that the Photo Stream checkbox is selected and you're signed in to the same iCloud account that you're using on your other supported devices.
Open iPhoto or Aperture, then choose Preferences > iCloud (or Photo Stream).
If you're using iPhoto 9.4 or later or Aperture 3.4 or later, make sure that My Photo Stream is selected. If you want all new photos that you upload to your iPhoto or Aperture library to upload to My Photo Stream, select Automatic Upload.
If you're using iPhoto 9.2.2 through 9.3.2, or Aperture 3.2.3 through 3.3.2, select Enable Photo Stream and Automatic Import.
Cheers,
Joe

Iphoto sharing iphoto album text

When I save my iphoto album to Photostream, external hard drive or a USB, the faces, descriptions, and comments are not included. How can I share the complete album with another Mac or PC? Also, how do i get the text info included when I create a book?

Next move is to try and repair the existing Library
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 Repair Database. If that doesn't help, then try again, this time using Rebuild Database.
If that fails:
Option 2
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. (In early versions of Library Manager it's the File -> Rebuild command. In later versions it's under the Library menu.)
This will create an entirely new library. It will then copy (or try to) your photos and all the associated metadata and versions to this new Library, and arrange it as close as it can to what you had in the damaged Library. It does this based on information it finds in the iPhoto sharing mechanism - but that means that things not shared won't be there, so no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your events, albums and keywords, faces and places 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

IPhotos - Shared iCloud vs My Photo Stream????

In my iPhoto I have a "RECENT - My Photo Stream" item that contains 194 photos and a "SHARED iCloud" item that contains 402 photos. Some of these photos in the two "albums" are the same.
Question: What is the difference between "My Photo Stream" and "iCloud" photos??????!!!???
I never set up a SHARED iCloud photos album.

Where exactly are you seeing this SHARED iCloud. It this what you you're referring to:
That's normal. If you click on the iCloud icon you'll see in the window at the right the My Photo Stream album and any shared albums that you might have setup manually.
So if this isn't what you're referring to please describe in more detail or include screenshots.

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