Transferring photo album between Macs

Question

I've created a photo book on my husbands mac (iMac G5), and wish to move it to mine (G4 Powerbook) in order to finish working on it. I currently have the correct album, but can't figure out how to transfer the actual book file to my mac.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
Design&Conquer
iMac G5   Mac OS X (10.4.5)  

Answer 1

Hi Design&Conquer,
There is no way easy way to transfer a book between Macs. The reason is because the book info is in a data file, there is no hard copy of it in the Finder. You can copy your entire iPhoto Library folder to your PB and open it on the PB and finish working on your book there. You can also follow the next suggestion from Old Toad on backing up the book, which will give you a library with just the images from the book and the data files, which you can then copy over to your PB and work on it there.
You would use the Option launch to navigate to the book library and open it. You also might have to change the permissions of the iPhoto Library folder to you. Instructions for both will follow after Old Toads info:
Backing up an iPhoto book
This is a method that was suggested by Old Toad, our iPhoto forums guru:
Close iPhoto
-If you have enough room on your hard drive duplicate the iPhoto Library folder in the Finder by highlighting it and hitting Command D.
-Launch iPhoto with the Option key depressed until you see the message window. Choose to open another library and navigate to the duplicate library and highlight it and click "open"
-Now delete all photos that are not in your book or that you are not planning to use in your book. Empty iPhoto's trash often so as to to have iPhoto choke on too many images to delete.
-Once you have just the photos you want to use in the book and everything is running fine, close that library.
-Each time before you open the book library you might want to duplicate that library in the Finder to have a safe copy to use if the book library crashes on you and you lose the work on your book.
In the future, you can File>export all the photos you want to use in the next book to a folder on the desktop.
Create a new book library by launching iPhoto with the Option key depressed and choosing to create a new library. Name the library after the book you are going to make.
Follow the same procedure above to make duplicate copies of the book library before you do any major work on the book.
When you launch iPhoto holding down the Option key this is the window you will get.
Create a new library or choose a library to open
Choose to create a new library if that is what you want to do, or choose a library to open by clicking the "choose" button.
If you click the "create library" iPhoto will open with a brand new library for you to import images to. If you click "choose" then you will get this window.
Open library
Navigate to where the library is on your computer, highlight it, then clcik the "open" button.
Get info on the iPhoto Library folder
screenshot of how the "get info" window should look for your user
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