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Mac Forum / Country Specific / UK Mac Group / October 2007How does iPhoto work?
Still new to Macs, and am trying to figure out how iPhoto works with its image management. I share my mac with with wife - a log in each We have about 5 gigs of photos, that I have put in the USR/Shared folder so we can both access them. I then used iPhoto to import photos and selected the usr/shared folder. Photos all imported - but it wasnt long before my HDD space was full up. Does iPhoto copy the photos in each profile, therefore doubling the 5 gigs into 15? I used to used Picassa on Windows, this let you nominate a watch folder that could be shared between out logins. When I added some photos to the "watched" folder - the picassa would update both users photo library. Does that make sense? Can this be achieved with OS X and some software? Thanks Simon > Does iPhoto copy the photos in each profile, therefore doubling the 5 > gigs into 15? Yes, that's what importing does. Several people have had success moving a single iPhoto library into the Users/Shared/ folder and then pointing iPhoto under every other account to use that instead of the individual user's library which resides in Users/Name/Pictures/. To do so, copy your library to Users/Shared/ while iPhoto isn't running. Then launch iPhoto with the alt- (option-) key held down. You will be prompted to select a library, point it at the new location and you should be done. You can now also delete the one in your personal account. I don't know how well this approach works in the long run since I've never tried it myself.  SignatureCheers Martin >> Does iPhoto copy the photos in each profile, therefore doubling the 5 >> gigs into 15? [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > I don't know how well this approach works in the long run since I've > never tried it myself. Thanks for that :D Reclaimed some hard disk space too. Worth mentioning though that I had to change the iPhoto Library permissions to Read and Write for others before iPhoto would load it into the wifes account :) Cheers for the help Simon > Worth mentioning though that I had to change the iPhoto Library > permissions to Read and Write for others before iPhoto would load it > into the wifes account :) Ah, yes, now I remember a comment that permissions could become a problem when one user attempted to edit a photo placed into the library by another user. I don't remember the conclusion though. A utility like BatChmod <http://macchampion.com:16080/arbysoft/> might come in handy to change the permissions for *all* files included in the library to Read&Write for everyone. SignatureCheers Martin >> Worth mentioning though that I had to change the iPhoto Library >> permissions to Read and Write for others before iPhoto would load it [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > come in handy to change the permissions for *all* files included in the > library to Read&Write for everyone. I see that Leopard now enables ACLs on HFS+, and the Finder can now show and set them. Cheers, Chris > I see that Leopard now enables ACLs on HFS+, and the Finder can now > show and set them. About time, huh?! SignatureCheers Martin >> I see that Leopard now enables ACLs on HFS+, and the Finder can now >> show and set them. > > About time, huh?! Yes, hopefully it'll make sharing stuff rather easier. Or rather, getting the permissions right when sharing stuff... Cheers, Chris > Yes, hopefully it'll make sharing stuff rather easier. Or rather, > getting the permissions right when sharing stuff... Frustrated by all that permissions nonsense I moved all my work files to either an external drive or partition with "Ignore ownership on this volume" enabled - that solved the problem for good. SignatureCheers Martin > Worth mentioning though that I had to change the iPhoto Library > permissions to Read and Write for others before iPhoto would load it > into the wifes account :) Just came across this Apple support document describing two alternative ways to share a library: <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304890> SignatureCheers Martin |
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