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Hello all,
Looking for some creative advice. We have a Mac Mini as a media server where the family likes to view iPhoto stuff as well use them for the screen saver. But my wife (the family iPhoto Manager) must have the iPhoto library local on her MacBook Pro (it is large and slow to load from a remote drive). I see the multitude of ways to share the files with the Mac Mini but as soon as she closes the lid on her MBP they are no longer accessible by the media server.
Any suggestions for a good simple Apple or third-party file sync utility that may work? Any other creative ideas?

There is no way to sync libraries. What you can do is mirror your wife’s Library on the Mac Mini - to do this, simply use a back up utility like DejaVu Chronosync to back your wife’s Library up to the Mini. Then share the Mini’s Library.
The advantage of this is that after the first back up, these apps will only copy the changes to the library on the Mini, and so it will be quite a fast process.
Regards
TD

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