Photo Files using iPhoto

I set up my laptop to have an account for me and another for my wife so we can have our own settings. We would like to share our photos. All of the photos that I have saved on to our laptop are only visible on my account. How to I set things up where she could also view the photos on iPhoto? Anyone? Thanks

By default, your photos are stored within your own personal home folder, and therefore not accessible by your wife.
The good news is that it's not impossible to do what you seek, and Apple even has a handy support document with all the details.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1198
Good luck

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Don't use iPhoto.
iPhoto is a Photo Manager. It's designed to work like, say the AddressBook on your computer. Think of it this way:
Add all your addresses to the Addressbook. Edit them, group and organise them as you will.
If you need to access an address then simply use the tools built-in to every app in your Mac to do so - like the email or mail merge features and so on.
*some where on the HD is all that information, but you wouldn't try and find that file, would you? You'd access the data via the Address Book application or the various hooks written into the Applications that integrate with it.
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Add all your Photos to the iPhoto. Edit them, group and organise them as you will.
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https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4491
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What you are trying to teach the kids is a file based system. iPhoto is a data based system. If you don't want to teach the kids how to use a data based system then don't use iPhoto.

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