Q: iPhoto 9.6 Repair Permissions Issue
Hi,
I recently upgraded to Yosemite, at which point I was forced to upgrade to iPhoto 9.6. Just some pertinent info upfront. My wife and I have separate user accounts on our iMac. Both our iTunes and iPhoto libraries are shared at /users/Shared.
After the upgrade, and the first time I opened iPhoto, I saw a message saying "Examining photo library...", and after a short period, another message pops up saying "There is a problem accessing one or more files in your iPhoto library. Do you want iPhoto to repair permissions for this library for you?", to which I replied by hitting the "Repair" option. Eventually all (at least I think all) of our photo thumbnails populated.
If I close iPhoto, and re-open from the same user account, I don't see the message anymore. If I close iPhoto, and re-open in the other user account, the same thing happens. If I submit to repairing again, then again, the photos populate. If I close iPhoto, and switch back to the other user account, again it's the same problem.
Has anybody else seen this behavior with the same shared setup? I don't know if putting your iPhoto library in a shared location was ever an officially supported feature. I'm just ticked off b/c it's been working fine for 8 years and my wife is giving me the "told you so" b/c there's always something that falls out of an upgrade.
Thanks in advance.
Posted on Feb 4, 2015 2:28 PM
Yes, everyone sees this. It has to do with sandboxing. The solution is to store the Library on an external disk formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and set to ignore permissions.
Posted on Feb 4, 2015 2:51 PM