Photos and multiple iMac Accounts

In the new Photos application can I share a single Photo library among multiple users?

I'm afraid from what you describe that the hard drive is dead.

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Why not just access Facebook with the web browser in the time being? I just tried that, and you can just click the "Account" button at the top, then "Log Out". Ta-Da!
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I have an iMac at home and a Macbook I travel with. Previously I had just one mobileme account, and BTMM has worked like a champ. I now have multiple iCloud accounts in my household, as my wife mostly uses the iMac and I have the macbook. I very much enjoy the seemless sharing of iCal calendars and the syncing of email accounts over multiple macs and mobile devices. Trouble is to make BTMM work you have to enter preferences-->iCloud and log both computers into the same iCould account. Surely apple must have forseen this sort of problem. I as an indivdual if you have TWO computers and no one else uses them, it's no big deal to have everything on one iCloud account. But with multiple users, with multiple email accounts, that's just not realistic. I thought I may have found the work around when going to System Prefs-->Users & Groups-->and adding multilple Apple User IDs, but that doesn't work.
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x

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Not sure where I should ask this question but how will I be able to keep choices in music, apps and pictures separate on each device? Right now, my wife has a separate iTuns account for her stuff I have a separate account for my stuff. She has an iPhone 4 and an iPad2 and I have an iMac and an iPhone 4. How do we keep things separate for our devices but still share music photos and apps? I want us to be able to pick from the same music, pictures and apps but I am not sure how to do that and I cant really find a good clear/simple answer. We do not have MobileMe accounts as were are rather new apple users.

I'd just sync stuff manually, so you can select what you each do and don't want on your respective devices. Apple invents all this whiz-bang-fantastic new stuff like iCloud that we're all supposed to love and use straight away to the exclusion of all else, but if they don't do what we want then what's the point of using them?
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When I try to access the Photos library from a Mac where the library is mounted on a drive over the network, it says the library can not be opened nor repaired. Did something change here where Apple now wants the library on the local disk and won't allow access over a network drive?
Makes sense, as one of the benefits with Photos is the cloud integration and local Photo libraries can access other pictures through iCloud Photo Library, but I really want to keep SSD space on my office Mac Mini and Macbook Air freed up.
So... Is there a way to access ONE Photos library for all my Macs or do I have to create local libraries and rely on the cloud for access across the Macs?

So it seems that when I create local libraries on the other Macs, the libraries are full size? It would be nice if you have multiple macs, to have one be designated having the full library (along with the cloud) and the others have access to the thumbnails and lower res pictures unless you elect to grab it down from the cloud. Duplicating libraries seems like a total waste.
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I too suffer from the same problem.
My wife, son, and I maintain separate iTunes accounts/libraries on our individual Macs. I just purchased the new 2nd Generation Apple TV to replace my 1st Generation one. We set up Shared Libraries on each of our Macs, which we were able to browse/play on our 1st Gen Apple TV. My wife's account was set up on the device for the purpose of renting/purchasing content.
Now with the 2nd Gen Apple TV I no longer see any option for associating Shared Libraries, or browsing anything other than a single iTunes library because of it's reliance on the Home Sharing feature. Also, I can't easily pair up my iPhones/iPod Touch/iPad copies of the Remote App unless they too are set up using Home Sharing on a single iTunes account. Sure, with the promise of AirPlay we may one day be able to stream video (we can do audio now) from all our Macs, but without the ability to browse all our libraries from one simple interface (like we could on the 1st Gen) the newest Apple TV has limited usefulness for our family.
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I know this stuff has been posted before but I have not been able to get any of the solutions to work.
I have 1 .mac account that works fine. I have four email addresses registered under this one account. I have set up five accounts on my computer. One master/admin and then one each for myself, my wife and my two children.
First I would like them to be able to send emails from their own email addresses and not from the 'master'. It was suggested that I enter the email addresses when setting up the mail account in mail. However I am not able to do so, even with a new account. It works for POP and IMAP account types but not for .mac where that crucial field is blanked out.
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Actually I am not sure the outgoing will work anyway and I am not sure why. It appears to be identical to the one computer account that does work and that I have been using as a template....
I have been struggling with this for hours and I am going gently mad. Any/all help would be much appreciated.
Thanks, Clarke Pitts.

Clarke,
Welcome to the Discussions.
This is easily accomplished in Tiger and Mail 2.0, but harder in Mail 1.3.11. Do you have any plans to upgrade? See:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mail/2.0/en/ml1114.html
With Mail 1.3.11, you can set your main .mac address up as an IMAP account, and add each of the other addresses to the email address field in preferences, but you must then use the SMTP of your ISP, and not smtp.mac.com.
You also can set each one of the .mac aliases up as POP account, and both check to never check for new mail, AND take the account Offline to prevent constant failure message if Mail were try and receive mail for that address. As you set up these alias accounts, you must push ahead, even after Mail tells you that you cannot connect -- you are not trying to connect, since it will be offline. But even tho' Offline, you can still send from each address (but only by using the SMTP of the ISP), and in this mode can have separate Full Name entries for each, and rules can be used to move emails from the .mac Inbox to each Inbox of these alias accounts.
If your ISP would be one the rare ones to limit From addresses to its own Domain, then this would not work.
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I am THIS-CLOSE to changing carriers/plans after almost seven years and multiple family accounts

How do I TALK (Verizon is in the phone business, isn't it?) about accessing part of my account to pay my bill as I used to every month? This is ridiculous. Verizon has received THOUSANDS of dollars from me and my corporate account over the years and I'm so (removed) right now I'm about to nix it all. If anyone at Verizon is scanning these emails, get back to me. My chat feature isn't even working online.
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Sorry, gang, this was a family member that is irritated about her account, not me. I'll handle this. Thanks.

ICloud and multiple mail accounts...

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HT5649 Our family has a shared computer with itune software. We have multiple apple devices and multiple itunes accounts. Can we share the computer and iTunes software to back up each apple device separately?

How do multiple users with multiple devices share one computer with iTunes software to back up multiple devices and individual iTune libraries?

Hi Goodguy147,
Welcome to the Support Communities!
The easiest way to have multiple users with multiple devices share a single computer is to create a User Account on your Windows PC for each person. Each person should also have a unique Apple ID. That will keep each individual's iTunes Library separate from the others and each individual can associate and backup several devices to their iTunes library.
Using your Apple ID for Apple services
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4895
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iTunes for Windows Vista, Windows 7, or Windows 8: Fix unexpected quits or launch issues
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1717?viewlocale=nl_nl
Follow the steps below to create a new user account in Windows Vista or Windows 7:
Choose Start > Control Panel.
Open "Add or remove user accounts." (If you're using the Classic view in Windows Vista, open "User Accounts," and then open "Manage another account.")
Select "Create a new account" and follow the instructions to set up the account.
Once you create the new account, choose Start > Log Off.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4627
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My parents have an iPad which they share; they also have a PC running Windows 7 where they each have a user account. Within their accounts they each have photos, each in a two level hierarchy where the first level contains only folders (i.e. "<date> <subject>") and the second level contains the actual photos within each folder.
It's my Dad's account that actually syncs with the iPad. iTunes won't sync with a Windows 7 library so I can't combine my parents' individual photo folders into a single library. I tried creating a link in the base of my Dad's photo folder to my Mum's photo folder but then I discovered iTunes will only work with two levels of hierarchy so this meant all of her photos appeared in a single folder on the iPad.
They want all of their folders to appear at on the iPad with the photos each in the correct folder as (hopefully) illustrated below. Can someone suggest how this may be achieved?
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Dad:
My Photos\25042013 Subject 1\Photo 1.jpg
My Photos\25042013 Subject 1\Photo 2.jpg
My Photos\26042013 Subject 2\Photo 1.jpg
My Photos\26042013 Subject 2\Photo 2.jpg
Mum:
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My Photos\20042012 Subject 3\Photo 2.jpg
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My Photos\21042013 Subject 4\Photo 2.jpg
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20042012 Subject 3\Photo 1.jpg
20042012 Subject 3\Photo 2.jpg
21042013 Subject 4\Photo 1.jpg
21042013 Subject 4\Photo 2.jpg
25042013 Subject 1\Photo 1.jpg
25042013 Subject 1\Photo 2.jpg
26042013 Subject 2\Photo 1.jpg
26042013 Subject 2\Photo 2.jpg

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