Managing Photos on Multiple Macs

We have currently 3 Macs in the house and unfortunately the photos are spread across the 3 Macs. Some photos are on multiple machines and some on just one.
I would like to get all the photos into a single iPhoto Library. What is the best way to accomplish this?
Export all photos on all machines
Delete the library one machine
Import all photos into a new library
Once that is done, I would like all the computers to have access to that single Library and work from that Library.
Possible?

gpryzby
Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
The easiest way to consolidate all the libraries into one is with iPhoto Library Manager
which will facilitate the moving of both pics and associated metadata.
When it comes to sharing you have two options:
1. Go to the iPhoto Preferences -> Sharing in the principal library and enable 'Share this Library', then, in the other libraries, go to the Preferences and enable 'Look For Shared Libraries'. The other users will be able to view the pictures in the main library. For this to work iPhoto must be running in the host library.
2. If you want everyone to have total access to the library - that is, add pics, edit pics, remove pics etec., then move the iPhoto Library Folder to the Users/Shared Folder and set the File Permissions to allow everyone Read/Write access to the folder and enclosed files. Then, in each case in turn, hold down the option (or alt) key and from the resulting dialogue select 'Choose Library', and navigate to the location of the iPhoto Library Folder. Thereafter that will be the default location of the Photo Library for all such machines.
Some caveats: iPhoto is NOT a multi-user app, it simply does not have the code to negotiate simultaneous users. So, only one user can have the library open at a time, and other users attempting to open it, or attempting to save to it can corrupt the database. So backing up is the order of the day. Further, if the connection between the machines is wireless many people have reported horrendously slow import times using a wireless connection.
Regards
TD

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