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sharing iPhoto library between two user accounts on the same Mac

My wife and I each have an iPad and we share the same iMac. We each have our own user account on the iMac. She syncs with her account, and I sync with mine. This works fine in general, but we store all our photos within iPhoto on my account. She is therefore unable to sync the photos to her iPad. The same is true with the music that we keep on the iTunes in my user account.

Is there a way for her to sync so that the photos and music sync with her iPad also?

iMac core 2 duo, 64gb ipads, Mac OS X (10.6.3)

Posted on May 21, 2010 7:22 AM

19 replies

Dec 15, 2010 9:52 PM in response to Journeymnn

Do you find this method is still the best way to use the same iphoto library metween multiple user accounts on the same mac?

paokiut

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Oct 24, 2011 9:33 PM in response to Journeymnn

Thank you for posting your steps Journeymnn! I had a very similar question and this worked great for me too!

May 24, 2014 5:20 PM in response to Cloudhr

If you don't have a Fusion drive it's easer to reparation your internal drive. Make a 50GB partition or bigger if you think that's what you need. I call mine Shared HD. Then set the permissions set to "ignore ownership on this volume". Your iPhoto will open much faster since your internal drive is way faster then an external one. I've been complaining about this problem since OS X 1.1 came out. Apple should just put in special code so the Users/Shared folder could have a permission to set to "ignore ownership on this Folder" or something along these lines. Anyway's I use my Shared HD drive for anything I would normally use the Shared folder for.

Chris CA

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May 24, 2014 7:15 PM in response to Mike Retondo

Mike Retondo wrote:

If you don't have a Fusion drive

You responded to a 4 year old post...

sharing iPhoto library between two user accounts on the same Mac