Shared iPhoto library not showing thumbnails

I have tried to start sharing my photos across my network at home. Although the shared items show up on the remote computer, no thumbnails (empty box) or names appear. All is fine on the base computer. The photos themselves are viewable when double clicked on the remote computer.

That's an indication that you need to rebuild that library's thumbnails. That's because when you enlarge the thumbnail at some point iPhoto starts using the Original file. So backup the library and launch iPhoto with the Command+Option keys depressed to rebuild the library. Select All options.
Click to view full size
NOTE: You can try just rebuilding the small thumbnails first and see if that will do the job. If not then rebuild all thumbnails.
OT

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According to this.
Is this really a problem? I would like to do this if its not a problem. Acually I do have several iPhoto Libraries in the /Users/Shared folder and so far in iPhoto 5 there didn't seem to be any major problems except for the one listed at the bottom. When upgrading to iPhoto 6 yesterday I did get the permission error while opening a /Users/Shared/iPhoto Library for the first time and I did this.
Setting Permissions for iPhoto Library Folder
1 - Select the iPhoto Library folder and type Command-I.
2 - When the Info window comes up go to the Ownership and Permissions section and make sure You have Read & Write permission and that the Owner and Group have Read & Write also. Others - Read Only.
3 - Then click on the "Apply to enclosed items..." button.
And it seems to be fine. I would really like to keep the iPhoto Libraries in the /Users/Shared folder if I can so that both me (Admin) and my wife (Standard) can access/edit/add/delete pics to this library. Thats why I'm troubled why it's not recommeded.
I also use iPhoto Library Manager v3.2.1 and have the options set as Owner and Group have Read & Write and Others - Read Only. I also have the settings Permissions to Apply as enabled to automatically apply before launching iPhoto and when iPhoto Quits. But I only use it if I want to change libraries if not I just open iPhoto.
I noticed in iPhoto 5 that sometimes after importing photos to this library from one user that when accessing that library from another user iPhoto wouldn't open until the permissions were changed again. I think this happened when I did not launch iphoto from iPhoto Library Manager. Does this mean if I leave the library in the Shared folder I should after importing photos always open iPhoto with iPhoto Library Manager to change the permissions. Will this fix the problem?
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Hello, I have an issue where my iPhoto library is not visible in iTunes Photo Sharing Preferences. I wish to have my iPhoto library (Aperture Library) available on my Apple TV.
Does your joint Aperture/iPhoto library show in the Finder as "Kind Aperture Library"?
Then set your Photo Sharing to share from Aperture and not from iPhoto.
When I try to sync or share iPhoto libraries from iTunes, it will look for libraries "Kind iPhoto" and not sync with an Aperture library, even if it is the current iPhoto library.

IPhoto library not showing in Photos

Just upgraded to 10.10.3, opened Photos app, selected my primary iPhoto library from the options and … nothing. No photos at all appear in Photos. Tried changing the default Library to my backup disk's by restarting Photos with Option key held down. Still nothing. What to do?

Hi Clem,
No errors, just the empty app with the default instructions.

Double-clicking an event in iPhoto does not show thumbnails

I set double-click event in preferences - events to shows event photos but still only see one enlarged photo when double-clicking an event.
I would like to see the thumbnails to better edit, split event photos which are grouped inappropriately for some reason.

While you have the one large photo displayed Look down to the lower right hand corner of the iPhoto window and slide the little slider to the left until you see then number of thumbnails you want
LN

IPhoto does not show thumbnails?

I have 2 different iPhoto Libraries. I tried View > thumbnails but it's grayed out. Have backed up original photos.

While you have the one large photo displayed Look down to the lower right hand corner of the iPhoto window and slide the little slider to the left until you see then number of thumbnails you want
LN

IPhoto 11 not showing files shared on facebook

My iPhoto 11 is sporadically showing which photos are also being shared on Facebook when I view by Events/Photos.
I've particularly noticed this happens when I upload photos from the same Event during different sessions-- in the second session, sometimes I end up duplicating uploads because iPhoto is not showing in the info pane that they are already being shared.
I can view which photos I'm sharing under the web source album, and I can see that there are duplicates. I have double checked under the Events by clicking on photos I know darn well I've uploaded because I'm looking right at them ON Facebook- some twice now!- and it still does not show they are sharing.
I only have one unique version of these pics in iPhoto, so I know I'm not uploading copies of the same images. I've updated all of my software to the most recent versions. I've restarted the computer. I can't think of any other reason why it's not showing sharing info.
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Opps error i use iPhoto 9 not 11.

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iPhoto6 on iMac running SL - after a full reistall of Snow Leopard, iphoto does not display thumbnails. I've restored the library from time machine, rebuilt the library from iPhoto and run through the rebuild thumbnails function with no success. The files are there, I just get a dotted outline instead of the thumbnails. Does anyone have any other ideas on how to restore the thumbnails?

Try the following:
Using iPhoto Library Manager to Rebuild Your iPhoto Library
Download iPhoto Library Manager and launch.
Click on the Add Library button, navigate to your Home/Pictures folder and select your iPhoto Library folder.
Now that the library is listed in the left hand pane of iPLM, click on your library and go to the File ➙ Rebuild Library menu option
In the next window name the new library and select the location you want it to be placed.
Click on the Create button.
Note: This creates a new library based on the LIbraryData.xml file in the library and will recover Events, Albums, keywords, titles and comments but not books, calendars or slideshows. The original library will be left untouched for further attempts at fixing the problem or in case the rebuilt library is not satisfactory.
OT

Sharing iphoto library in Shared folder - so frustrated!

I am so frustrated trying to put the iPhoto Library in the Shared folder, in order to give all users Read & Write access. It worked for about a month, and now my wife suddenly is getting lots of permission problems. I tried making her the "owner" of the library, but that caused iPhoto to not read it at all and say the Library was 0 k in size. Once I changed ownership back to me, it was 20GB.
Certain folders inside the library give her Custom permission, so I went in and changed permission to Read/Write. Doesn't help - photos in iPhoto disappear or black out. Sometimes a folder (like a certain date) won't even show on her side at all.
This seems like such a simple thing, and something most people would want to do. Why won't this work correctly???
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have you read this article?
Sharing via the Shared Folder -- Another major annoyance with versions of iPhoto prior to iPhoto '09 was that you couldn't just put your iPhoto Library in the /Users/Shared folder to share it among multiple accounts on the same Mac, since iPhoto always set the permissions on thumbnails to the account that imported the photos, preventing other accounts from editing those photos and having the edits reflected in the thumbnails.
That limitation has now been fixed in iPhoto '09, so you can share an iPhoto library merely by moving it to /Users/Shared and then double-clicking it to open in iPhoto from each account. You may be prompted to repair permissions on the first access - click the Repair button to do that. Note that this also works for storing an iPhoto library on an external hard disk that's shared among users or on a network volume for access across a fast network.
Only one person may access a shared iPhoto library at a time.
LN
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IPhoto is not showing photos that i have saved on an external drive. I can see tht the photos are on the drive, but iPhoto is not showing them. Help!!

Iphoto is not showing the photos that I know are stored on the external drive. I can see that there is 45 Gig of photos stored on the drive as they appear in finder when looked for, but I cannot see them in iPhoto.
I have used the external drive as the default location for my iPhoto library and not had this problem before.
I had a message earlier about generating thumbnails. I also had iMovie running this morning. This is when the problem began.
Have tried restarting computer and all the obvious things.
Also tried rebuilding the library.
Please help!

Try these in order - from best option on down...
1. Do you have an up-to-date back up? If so, try copy the library6.iphoto file from the back up to the iPhoto Library (Right Click -> Show Package Contents) allowing it to overwrite the damaged file.
2. Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. (In Library Manager it's the FIle -> Rebuild command)
This will create an entirely new library. It will then copy (or try to) your photos and all the associated metadata and versions to this new Library, and arrange it as close as it can to what you had in the damaged Library. It does this based on information it finds in the iPhoto sharing mechanism - but that means that things not shared won't be there, so no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your events, albums and keywords, faces and places back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.
3. If neither of these work then you'll need to create and populate a new library.
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Note this will give you a working library with the same Events and pictures as before, however, you will lose your albums, keywords, modified versions, books, calendars etc.
In the iPhoto Preferences -> Events Uncheck the box at 'Imported Items from the Finder'
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Go into the iPhoto Library (Right Click -> Show Package Contents) on your desktop and find the Originals folder. From the Originals folder drag the individual Event Folders to the iPhoto Window and it will recreate them in the new library.
When you're sure all is well you can delete the iPhoto Library on your desktop.
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Iphoto is not showing faces anymore.

Hello everyone.
For some reason, my Iphoto is not showing faces anymore. All faces I've cataloged are still there, but it shows only the names. And there are many more others to identify, but It's impossible, because the menu shows only black thumbnails.
All the other features of the app are working fine and all my pictures are shown on the other menus, like "events" or "albuns" for example.
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2 - Run Option #2 to rebuild the thumbnails. It may several attempts.
OT

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Two Accounts sharing iPhoto library - iPod access rights error solution

I followed the advice given in http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1198 to share a single iPhoto library on an external drive between two users. It worked well.
...until both my wife and I tried to connect iPods while in our individual logins and attempted to sync photos from an album in iPhoto.
Mine worked, but my wife's responded with, "The iPod "name" cannot be synced. You do not have enough access privileges for this operation."
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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4872555&#4872555
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I copied the iPhoto cache to a folder with my name on it, deleted the iPod iPhoto cache, and started iTunes under my wife's login. After setting the album she wanted to import, her photos synced without error.
should have said..
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Fix #1
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Fix #2
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OT

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