Sharing iphoto libraries on different computers

Hi, I'm trying to move all my files from one mac to another. I have a ton of photos in my iPhoto on Old Computer, but only some of them show up on New Computer. I took my last import, and made a photo stream out of it, but I can't give it a name, and what shows up on New Computer is only a portion of what's in the Photostream on Old Computer. What am I doing wrong? Is there any way to make an album, and have that album show up in my New Computer's iPhoto Library???

I you want all of your photos and photo information on the new mac PhotoStream is NOT the way to move them - Connect the two Macs together (network, firewire target mode, etc) or use an external hard drive formatted Mac OS extended (journaled) and drag the iPhoto library intact as a single entity from the old Mac to the pictures folder of the new Mac - launch iPhoto on the new mac and it will open the library and convert it as needed and you will be ready move forward.
LN

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Combining iPhoto libraries from different computers?

Hi all!
I have a question I could use some help on --
I would like to import an iPhoto library from a friend's computer into my iPhoto library. Specifically, I want to add a iPhoto folder of hers containing a bunch of photos that are already labeled. Is that possible to do? I would normally just import the photos directly, except for the fact that she painstakingly already labeled/dated the photos in her iPhoto library and would hate to have to re-label everything.
Thanks for any suggestions.
A.P.

Hi alexandra,
I need to know more info about the folder of images.
Is it just a folder of images she exported from her library? When you double click the folder to open it, what are the names of the images?
Or is it instead a CD that mounts within iPhoto?

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I have Aperture on my iMac and iPhoto on my Mac mini. The iMac and Mac mini are networked. The iPhoto library on the Mac mini is set as shared in the preferences. If I open iPhoto on my iMac I can see the iPhoto library from the Mac mini. If I open Aperture on my iMac I can not see the shared iPhoto library from the Mac mini. I am using the 'Show iPhoto Browser' option in the File menu. I can see my iPhoto library on my iMac in the iPhoto Browser.
In Aperture is there a way to see shared iPhoto libraries from other local networked computers?

I don't think that part of Aperture is that advanced. I'm pretty sure it only looks on the local Hard Disc.

HT1473 I have two separate iTunes libraries on different computers and I would like to compact into one. But I cannot without completely erasing one of the libraries. How can I do this without deleting anything?

I have two separate iTunes libraries on different computers and I would like to compact into one. But I cannot without completely erasing one of the libraries. How can I do this without deleting anything?

Copy the content from one computer to another and import the media into iTunes.
Any playlists, playcounts, etc on the computer the content is being moved from will be lost.

What is the best strategy for sharing iPhoto libraries between two macs?

I have an iMac and a new Airbook. I want to keep my iMac as the"main" iPhoto location, but want to also keep copies of the photos on my Airbook.
I could copy the library from one to the other to get the photos into the Airbook initially, but then how would I get subsequent ones in there? Is there a way to sync these two computers so that the photos flow from one to the other? One-way syncing would be ok...
Thanks.
Oh - and I use MobileMe if that helps.

There is an application that can sync two iPhoto libraries. It's SyncPhotos
Here's how it works:
1 - it compares the databases and/or album.xml files of Libraries A and B.
2 - the files in A that are not in B are imported into B by copying the original files from A into B's Import folder.
3 - it then does the same for B.
4 - metadata is not copied nor are Faces or Places.
It can be used to just copy from A to B and not sync both ways if desired. It will work with 2 libraries that are different versions, i.e. between an iPhoto 08 and iPhoto 09 library.
If you want to copy selected Events or Album from one to the other and keep the metadata, faces and places intact, you can use the paid version of iPhoto Library Manager. You would have to manually select the event/album to copy from A to B and do the same for B to A.
OT

Best practices for sharing iPhoto libraries across multiple Macs

I have a pair of iMacs running 10.6.x. and iPhoto 11 connected via Ethernet to an Airport Extreme. I am looking for a way to share my iPhoto library between the two Macs.
I found an Apple Support note on the topic (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1198) which states that a disk image is a supported location for a shared iPhoto library (with limitations acceptable to me) and it strikes me that this would be a way of hosting a shared iPhoto library onto a NAS device.
Am I missing a simpler solution or, more importantly, am I missing any blindingly obvious caveats? I'd love to hear from anybody who has tried this (successfully or otherwise) or anybody who has a better idea. I haven't bought a NAS device yet, so I'm open to alternative suggestions.
Specific requirements:
Members of my family use either one of a pair of iMacs.
The only user who edits the iPhoto library is me and I only need read/write access from one machine.
iPhoto library access limited to one user at a time is acceptable and practical in my case.

Easiest:
If the other users only get to see the Library then just use iPhoto Sharing.
Enable sharing in the iPhoto Preferences on the Host machine, then go to the other macgine and in the same location enable 'Look for Shared Libraries'
Other forms of sharing will give the users read/write access to the Library.
A strong warning: If you're trying to edit the Library (that is, make albums, move photos around, keyword, make books or slideshows etc.) or edit individual photos in it via Wireless be very careful. Dropouts are a common fact of wireless networking, and should one occur while the app is writing to the database then your Library will be damaged. Simply, I would not do this with my Libraries.
Regards
TD

Different libraries on different computers, same account?

Hi,
This might be a dumb question, but . . .
Currently I have all my iTunes files in one library on my eMac. I am getting a new iMac (YAY!) on Tuesday. What I'd LIKE to do is leave all my kids'/wife's iTunes stuff on the eMac, port my stuff over to the iMac— but still buy and manage both with the same account. 'Zat doable?
Thx

if i am understanding you correctly. Yes you can use the same iTunes account on up to 5 different computers.
On another note if you want easily transfer all of your files have a 6 pin to 6 pin firewire cable handy for the migration assistant during set up.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3322
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How to unify multiple iPhoto libraries from different Mac OS versions?

I am pretty good with the Mac itself and have been a long time user. I knew full well acumulating multiple iphoto libraries in older backups (intead of building up on one) was not a great idea but for several reasons I have had to live that way. Now is the time to clean it all up once and for all and I need some wisdom;
-I got my external drive as my new iphoto library now. It's being used, there are already albums in it and it's ready to accept older libraries.
-What I want is that the older libraries (about 10 of them from different Mac OS versions) to show up in the new external drive as they looked in iphot back then. As albums in other words.
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Cheers.
M

If you imported a previous iphoto library into your new one, it created a folder inside the iphoto called "imported".
That was the problem. One should never import one library into another. Only iPhoto 6 libraries and earlier can be imported into a library now. With the introduction of iPhoto 7 the library was changed from a folder to a package which can't be imported by the current iPhoto version.
To use an older library with a new iPhoto version one just opens that library with iPhoto and lets iPhoto update it as necessary. No importing necessary.
Also you can use the paid verson of iPhoto Library Manager to merge those additional libraries into your current working library (be sure to have a current backup of your current library before merging). What will be included are albums, Events, keywords, titles, descriptions, places. Books, slideshows, calendars in the other libraries will be copied over as just albums.
OT

How to sync different iPhoto libraries to different ipads

I have 2 iphoto libraries; 1 for me and 1 for my mum. I sync her iPad and my iPhone on my same iTunes copy. Is there a way I can chose different iPhoto libraries for our devices from 1 iTunes?
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iTunes will always sync with the iPhoto Library that has last been opened in iPhoto.
Before syncing her iPad, quit iTunes and iPhoto and double-click her iPhoto library to open it in iPhoto.
Then relaunch iTunes and connect her iPad. Now you should see her iPhoto library in the panel to sync photos.

Consolidating iPhoto libraries form different versions of OSX to an external HD.

Getting a new MacPro.
I have iPhoto content in Leopard, SnowLeopard and LION. I want to transfer all of these files onto one external backup drive so that I can consolidate all of them into one library. Where should I look and what files need to be transferred?
Is there an APP that will assist in consolidating all of these into one iPhoto library in Mavericks?

Where should I look and what files need to be transferred?
Where - only you know that - look whre the iPhoto libraries are
What - each iPhoto library - there are no files or parts - an iPhoto library is a single entity with no user servicable part in it - simply drag intact iPhoto libraries to the new external hard drive (each will have to have different names or be in different folders so as not to interfear with each other)
Is there an APP that will assist in consolidating all of these into one iPhoto library in Mavericks?
Either Aperture or iPhoto Library Manager - http://www.fatcatsoftware.com/iplm/ - can merge libraries
LN

HT204486 What happens to iPhoto libraries on different Macs when using Photos

I have photo libraries in different Macs and have switched on iCloud to work with Photos on my macbook pro. Do these libraries on my other Macs get merged with the one in the Cloud regardless of duplication of photos ?

thanks Leonie. I had the same impression: I started to connect a second computer to the photo library in iCloud, which I quickly stopped. I nevertheless ended up with 400 additional photos in the iCloud library.
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Sharing libraries from different computers

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Sharing iphoto library with different users

I have a new imac, set up different users for myself and my wife. We have been uploading our photos to iphoto on my account and evertime she would like to access them she has to log out and into my account.
Any way to share the library between users?

There is a bug in iPhoto 11 that prevents two users having the app opened at the same time, so Sharing using the preferences method is pretty much pointless until that's fixed.
That said:
For iPhoto 09 (version 8.0.2) and later:
What you mean by 'share'.
If you want the other user to be able to see the pics, but not add to, change or alter your library, then enable Sharing in your iPhoto (Preferences -> Sharing), leave iPhoto running and use Fast User Switching to open the other account. In that account, enable 'Look For Shared Libraries'. Your Library will appear in the other source pane.
Any user can drag a pic from the Shared Library to their own in the iPhoto Window.
Remember iPhoto must be running in both accounts for this to work.
If you want the other user to have the same access to the library as you: to be able to add, edit, organise, keyword etc.
Quit iPhoto in both accounts. Move the Library to the Users / Shared Folder
(You can also use an external HD set to ignore permissions, a Disk Image or even partition your Hard Disk.)
In each account in turn: Double click on the Library to open it. (You may be asked to repair the Library Permissions.) From that point on, this will be the default library location. Both accounts will have full access to the library, in fact, both accounts will 'own' it.
However, there is a catch with this system and it is a significant one. iPhoto is not a multi-user app., it does not have the code to negotiate two users simultaneously writing to the database, and trying will cause db corruption. So only one user at a time, and back up, back up back up.
Regards
TD

Sharing iPhoto Libraries over wifi

When my iPhoto is open and another person's iPhoto is open with both sharing options enabled, the other person cannot view my photos at all. I can see their photo perfectly. I have tried this with two different users and it doesn't work anymore. My library icon shows up in their iphoto app but when they click on it nothing happens, either beach ball or blank screen. Please help. Thanks.

Avinash,
I'm not familiar with what you'll need to do on the win xp system, but at a minimum, you'll need to turn file sharing on on your mac.
System Preferences>Sharing>Personal File Sharing (checked on). (This is what's got to be done on a Panther system... Your Tiger system might vary a bit...)
Also, you may need to turn your firewall off on the computers in order to get them to see each other...
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Bob

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