Managing Libraries on 2 Macs.

I have a 20" iMac that is my base computer on which my whole Aperture library resides and from which I back up my library using the Vault and an external drive. But I also have a 15" MBP with Aperture and it is where most of my images get uploaded first for quickly reviewing photos. I keep a much smaller library on it but I'm starting to wish I had the same library on both computers.
Is there any simple way to 'sync' the libraries on these two machines? If so, how? If not, how do you guys with a laptop and a desktop manage your images between the two?
Thanks for any pointers you guys can give.

Interesting. I'll look into that. I suspect that requires two licensed versions of Aperture 3? I am currently running the same license on both machines...... which I think is legal.... if not I'll stop. I own both machines and don't intentionally use it on both machines at once. If I'm at home on my wireless network and have Aperture open on one machine and then try to open it on the other machine it will not open. So I'm guessing this sync process will require another serial number purchase. It might be worth it.
Otherwise, I guess I could use the Vault on the external drive as a way to keep the two machines 'synced'. Seems a bit cumbersome though. Time to do a little more research.
Thanks.
George

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Does anyone have a way of physically combining (not just sharing) iPhoto libraries from two macs? I'm hoping there's an easier, smarter way of doing it than just exporting all of the photos from one and importing them into the other and then just doing the reverse. Is there software that does this smarter? Can get rid of duplicates, etc.?

Merge?
Do you mean 'sync' libraries
The general term means when two Libraries (A and B) are compared and files in Library A are copied to Library B, while files in Library B are also copied to Library A so that both Libraries are identical.
This is bi-directional copying and you cannot do this with automatically with iPhoto. No Syncing software is capable of parsing the iPhoto Library in this manner. One or both of your Libraries will be damaged if you try this.
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TD

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Hello! After many years of successfully hot-syncing my Palm m500 to my various Macs, i'm suddenly getting an error message every single time my Hot Sync tries to sync the Datebook data:
The application Conduit Manager quit unexpectedly.
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Click Relaunch to launch the application again.
i've already tried reattaching the USB cables and the Palm m500 into the cradle, and rebooting my Mac several times, and removing the "com.palm.xxxx.plist" files and the "Palm Desktop Info" file from my users/library/preferences folder. and i've spent several hours cruising these forums but nothing has worked. I've tried hot synching about 10 times in the last 12 hours but i keep getting this same error.
i also tried slowing down my hot sync by pressing the Shift key on my Mac during the entire hot sync, but i still get this error:
Conduit Manager: Unexpected error #-111
i tried to paste my full log report below but i ran into the 20k character limit for this form. since it looks like it's "Thread 4" that is causing the crash, i've deleted other parts of the log report but can send those to you in another posting if that would help.
thanks in advance for any help you can offer! i love my Palm m500 as I much prefer it to Apple's iCal system and would like to fix this problem so I don't need to abandon my Palm!
Report:
Process:         Conduit Manager [217]
Path:            /Applications/Palm/Conduit Manager/Contents/MacOSClassic/Conduit Manager
Identifier:      com.palm.HotSync.ConduitManager
Version:         3.2.1 (3.2.1)
Code Type:       PPC (Translated)
Parent Process: launchd [144]
Interval Since Last Report:          657 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:           1
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 41 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   1
Date/Time:       2010-01-03 00:20:36.147 -0800
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.5.8 (9L31a)
Report Version: 6
Anonymous UUID: 26B9A75C-009B-45C3-B160-FB5932991E00
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x00000000160fc198
Crashed Thread: 4
Thread 0:
0   translate                         0xb81529ef spin_lock_wrapper + 90931
1   translate                         0xb8183633 CallPPCFunctionAtAddressInt + 169935
2   translate                         0xb81861e2 CallPPCFunctionAtAddressInt + 181118
3   translate                         0xb80dfb0b 0xb8000000 + 916235
4   ???                               0x8138b831 0 + 2167978033
Thread 1:
0   ???                               0x800bc286 0 + 2148254342
1   ???                               0x800c3a7c 0 + 2148285052
2   translate                         0xb818b6ea CallPPCFunctionAtAddressInt + 202886
3   ???                               0x800ed155 0 + 2148454741
4   ???                               0x800ed012 0 + 2148454418
Thread 2:
0   translate                         0xb81529ef spin_lock_wrapper + 90931
1   translate                         0xb8183633 CallPPCFunctionAtAddressInt + 169935
2   translate                         0xb81861e2 CallPPCFunctionAtAddressInt + 181118
3   translate                         0xb80dfb0b 0xb8000000 + 916235
4   ???                               0x8138b831 0 + 2167978033
Thread 3:
0   translate                         0xb81529ef spin_lock_wrapper + 90931
1   translate                         0xb8183633 CallPPCFunctionAtAddressInt + 169935
2   translate                         0xb81861e2 CallPPCFunctionAtAddressInt + 181118
3   translate                         0xb80dfb0b 0xb8000000 + 916235
4   ???                               0x8138b831 0 + 2167978033
Thread 4 Crashed:
0   ???                               0x7c00867b 0 + 2080409211
Thread 5:
0   translate                         0xb8152c24 spin_lock_wrapper + 91496
1   translate                         0xb816c825 CallPPCFunctionAtAddressInt + 76225
2   translate                         0xb80bdb8b 0xb8000000 + 777099
3   translate                         0xb80b7007 0xb8000000 + 749575
4   translate                         0xb80d49c0 0xb8000000 + 870848
5   translate                         0xb813d75f spin_lock_wrapper + 4259
6   translate                         0xb8011b64 0xb8000000 + 72548
Thread 6:
0   translate                         0xb815289e spin_lock_wrapper + 90594
1   translate                         0xb816e8a7 CallPPCFunctionAtAddressInt + 84547
2   translate                         0xb80dfb0b 0xb8000000 + 916235
3   ???                               0x819d8c92 0 + 2174586002
Thread 4 crashed with X86 Thread State (32-bit):
eax: 0x98c10f16 ebx: 0x00000200 ecx: 0x160fc198 edx: 0xf01804e0
edi: 0xb81d8794 esi: 0xb81d8770 ebp: 0x80817f80 esp: 0xb019eeec
   ss: 0x0000001f efl: 0x00010213 eip: 0x7c00867b   cs: 0x00000017
   ds: 0x0000001f   es: 0x0000001f   fs: 0x0000001f   gs: 0x00000037
cr2: 0x160fc198
Thread 4: (0xb011c83c, 0xb81529ef)
0x00163b90: No symbol
0x94f46bb0: /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/CarbonCore.framework/Versions/A/CarbonCore : _YieldToThread + 532
0x94f4bfa4: /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/CarbonCore.framework/Versions/A/CarbonCore : _SetThreadState + 172
0x94f4becc: /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/CarbonCore.framework/Versions/A/CarbonCore : _SetThreadStateEndCritical + 136
0x15dd37c8: /Library/Application Support/Palm HotSync/Transports/Serial/Contents/MacOS/Serial Transport : _SemWait__7LThreadFP10LSemaphorelR4QHdrRUc + 144
0x15ddcb90: /Library/Application Support/Palm HotSync/Transports/Serial/Contents/MacOS/Serial Transport : _BlockThread__10LSemaphoreFl + 92
0x15ddca38: /Library/Application Support/Palm HotSync/Transports/Serial/Contents/MacOS/Serial Transport : _Wait__10LSemaphoreFl + 104
0x15dd1eb4: /Library/Application Support/Palm HotSync/Transports/Serial/Contents/MacOS/Serial Transport : _Run__Q27LThread7CleanupFv + 48
0x15dd3df8: /Library/Application Support/Palm HotSync/Transports/Serial/Contents/MacOS/Serial Transport : _DoEntry__7LThreadFPv + 64
0x94f4bdf4: /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/CarbonCore.framework/Versions/A/CarbonCore : _CooperativeThread + 348
0x913bf1d4: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib : __pthread_body + 40
0x00000000: /System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Support/LaunchCFMApp :   + 0
PPC Thread State
srr0: 0x00000000    srr1: 0x00000000                     vrsave: 0x00000000
cr: 0xXXXXXXXX        xer: 0x00000000        lr: 0x91335120        ctr: 0x9132e1f0
r00: 0xffffffe1     r01: 0xf0101ae0     r02: 0x00000013     r03: 0xf0101b8c
r04: 0x00000003     r05: 0x00000018     r06: 0x00000020     r07: 0x00006187
r08: 0x00000000     r09: 0x00000000     r10: 0x00000000     r11: 0xa020568c
r12: 0x9132e1f0     r13: 0x00000000     r14: 0x00000000     r15: 0x00000000
r16: 0x00000000     r17: 0x00000000     r18: 0x00000000     r19: 0x00000000
r20: 0x00000000     r21: 0x00000000     r22: 0x00000000     r23: 0x00000018
r24: 0xf0101b8c     r25: 0x00000020     r26: 0x00006187     r27: 0x00000000
r28: 0x00000000     r29: 0x00000003     r30: 0x00000003     r31: 0x94f469a4
Thread 5: Crashed (0xb019eeec, 0x7c00867b)
0x7c367b28: No symbol
0x7c364a58: No symbol
0x7c364b44: No symbol
0x7c35a818: No symbol
0x7c34a3bc: No symbol
0x7c347fe8: No symbol
0x7c34813c: No symbol
0x7c32da54: No symbol
0x7c329168: No symbol
0x7c327e70: No symbol
0x7c32763c: No symbol
0x7c32884c: No symbol
0x7c346c48: No symbol
0x7c346ec0: No symbol
0x8536c290: No symbol
0x8536cf30: No symbol
0x8536cb6c: No symbol
0x8536e004: No symbol
0x85366484: No symbol
0x85372680: No symbol
0x853c949c: No symbol
0x94f4bdf4: /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/CarbonCore.framework/Versions/A/CarbonCore : _CooperativeThread + 348
0x913bf1d4: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib : __pthread_body + 40
0x00000000: /System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Support/LaunchCFMApp :   + 0
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srr0: 0x00000000    srr1: 0x00000000                     vrsave: 0x00000000
cr: 0xXXXXXXXX        xer: 0x20000000        lr: 0x7c367a80        ctr: 0x9132f590
r00: 0x00000008     r01: 0xf01804e0     r02: 0x15f2f000     r03: 0x00000003
r04: 0x1610beb8     r05: 0x00000002     r06: 0xf018051c     r07: 0x00000000
r08: 0x000eb2a4     r09: 0x00000000     r10: 0x00800000     r11: 0xa0882d04
r12: 0x9132f590     r13: 0x00000000     r14: 0x003f252c     r15: 0x00000001
r16: 0x001751f0     r17: 0x003f2558     r18: 0x003f2588     r19: 0x003f2518
r20: 0x003f24e8     r21: 0xf0181426     r22: 0x00144c00     r23: 0x00000003
r24: 0x00000008     r25: 0x15f32dcc     r26: 0x15f32d54     r27: 0x0000ffff
r28: 0x000095bf     r29: 0x15f3705c     r30: 0x15f37060     r31: 0x00893ca8
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M

If you imported a previous iphoto library into your new one, it created a folder inside the iphoto called "imported".
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