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Posted 18 March 2005 - 08:01 PM

Hi Ya'll...Question. My husband and I each have an account on his IMAC G4 (Panther). I want to be able to listen to view the pictures on his account. How can i export his pictures to my account? I have tried messing with it for a few hours....but nothing works....THANKS FOR YOUR TIME.
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Posted 18 March 2005 - 10:20 PM

Here's a solution:
The iPhoto library on the Master Account is probably in the Master Account's Pictures folder. Move it to the root HD level, where it can be seen by other accounts. (After you've done this, the next time you launch iPhoto in the Master account, iPhoto won't know where the library is, and you'll be asked to navigate to this new location.) Select the iPhoto library folder and hit Command-I (for info). Under Ownership & Permissions, unlock the library and change all permissions to Read & Write.
Log in to another account. If you have an iPhoto library on that account, move it to another location, then launch iPhoto. Again, iPhoto will ask you to locate an iPhoto library (or to create a new one, which you do not want to do). Navigate to the library you moved to the root HD level, and you're all set.
By the way, there is also an app called iPhoto Library Manager (check versiontracker.com), which is advertised to allow you to have and manage multiple iPhoto libraries so that you can easily move between an account's library and the Master account's library you've moved to the HD root.
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Posted 19 March 2005 - 09:37 AM

only trouble with that is once you both start adding photos from different accounts the permissions get all screwed up and becomes a huge pain trying to manage who has permissions of what in order to edit and view certain photos. there was a workaround involving some terminal work that automatically (i think?) changed permissions to read/write for a specific group you've assigned to everyone you want to have this privilege, but i've lost the directions and had mixed results using it myself. i'd love to find a more elegant way (for both iphoto and itunes).
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