Synching photos between devices

Photos taken on my iPhone and iPad mini automatically synch between these two devices. However, I can't figure out how to get those devices to synch their photos with my Mac mini (has iPhoto 11). Shouldn't this be possible?

Jerrry wrote:
I'm not on Facebook, so I can't use that as a test. As soon as I open iPhoto it asks what library I want (although it lists none). The Choose button is grayed out. Other Library button opens finder to Desktop. Create New takes me to a Finder screen that says "Save As:" at the top. The files it shows are 2013, iPod Photo Cache and Lightroom. That's it.
Try launching iPhoto while holding down the Option key. It should then ask you what library you want to use and should show a Finder screen. From there navigate to your home folder ~/Pictures and in that folder you should find a file named iPhoto Library or perhaps a variation on that theme. Select iPhoto Library which should activate the Choose button. Click on choose and hopefully you will be back in business and you will also see Photo Stream inder WEB in the sidebar.

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