Accessing a library on a network drive bug

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Accessing a library on a network drive bug

Anyone tried holding down Option (Alt) while opening up iPhoto & then trying to select a library that you have stored on a network drive?? The iPhoto library on the drive is grayed out. Only way I see to do it is you have to psychically attached the drive to your Mac & then select it. After that, you can put the drive back on the network & iPhoto will remember where it is if you just open it the regular way without holding Option.

Kinda blows if you switch between an internal library & a networked library a lot. Mmmm, bugs. Gotta love 'em!

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MacBook 1.83GHz Core Duo w/ 802.11n, Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Aug 18, 2007 12:19 PM

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Answer 1

Aug 23, 2007 6:53 AM in response to Community User

This is a big problem for me. I have about 20 iPhoto Libraries on an OS X file server. I access them from three different workstations, or I should say I did, I can't now. Holding down the option and picking a library on a shared volume was a great solution for sharing multiple libraries between multiple workstations. Why break it?

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Answer 2

Aug 23, 2007 7:33 AM in response to Community User

A little investigating only made the problem more interesting. I created a new library over the network and it was accessible! I assumed it was a permission issue. I changed permission of all my libraries and it didn't help. Thought I should re-log on the volume. After re-logging on I didn't have access to any libraries, not even the one I had created that was accessible previously via holding down the option while booting iPhoto. Just for kicks and grins in the Finder I double click on library I created over the network and it opens! Great, I quickly double click on the next library to see if it'll open and no luck, it stays gray?

The permissions are the same and yet a library created over the network can be awakened by double clicking in the Finder but previously converted libraries can't?

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Answer 3

Jerry Z.

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Sep 4, 2007 5:30 PM in response to Community User

Kerry
Did you ever solve this problem? I have the same issue and would appreciate any help...
Thanks

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Answer 4

Jerry Z.

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Sep 4, 2007 6:11 PM in response to Jerry Z.

I just found this post and it proved correct, the library becomes available

+*Give this a try. Next time you navigate to the library and find it 'grayed out,' click on any other folder in the window sidebar and then re-navigate to the desired library. The second time you may find that the iPhoto icon is no longer grayed out and will open.*+

+*This is a pesky bug we've been dealing with since the iPhoto 7 update. Fortunately, I've not yet had a situation where the iPhoto library remained grayed out after using this re-navigation work around.*+

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Answer 5

Oct 18, 2007 6:20 PM in response to Jerry Z.

I have a similar problem. My network library is mounted as //smb. I tried this trick you mentioned. Whatever I do I am not able to select the library. I clicked on several other folders and went back to the library folder, but the library is still not selectable. I need help.

-Nags

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