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iPhoto '09 in 10.6.4 - Serious Sync Issues

We're currently in the process of upgrading ~200 people from 10.5.8 MacBooks to 10.6.4 MacBook Pros by simply using HomeSync to create a portable home on the new MacBook Pros from their home folders on Snow Leopard Servers. We've seen all the usual annoying sync issues already and can generally remedy all of these problems, but upgrading the users from iPhoto '08 to '09 tends to be the absolute worst. the sync process reaches the iPhoto library and returns the error "you should contact your network adminsitrator." No matter what we do, it won't seem to sync correctly. Not to mention it is as slow as heck.

Console proves to be little use - the one thing I did notice is that HomeSync seems to think that the files are in use.

One last thing I noticed is that it did work one time, and it appears that it was after the Faces feature was complete in its initial run (after all faces had been detected).

Anyone else notice anything similar?

-jm

Windows 7

Posted on Jul 30, 2010 4:09 PM

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User profile for user: Jeff Kelleher
Jeff Kelleher
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Jul 30, 2010 7:08 PM in response to jm1126

Not much hope. I subscribe to a mailing list that is very occasionally visited by an Apple engineer...here's a note about PHD's and iPhoto:

Gang,

Sorry for the late response....

The consensus was to use PHD's to sync only Documents and Desktop in most cases. It does not meet the "rapid return to service" criteria; but unless you deploy something like Code42's CrashPlan, you won't get there.

iPhoto is still broken - and we know it. Sorry.

iMovie projects should now save nicely with 10.6.4.

Still moving really slow.... but catching up.

johnd
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John DeTroye
Sr. Consulting Engineer Systems Management Specialist
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User profile for user: Gareth Cross
Gareth Cross
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Jan 7, 2011 5:13 AM in response to jm1126

It seems as if IPhoto and PHD's are broken.

I've had massive problems trying to get iPhoto to sync with little luck. Despite how one or two sync's will work it usually breaks for no reason.

The Sync manager seems to have a problem with the package file, it spots a change to a file within the package and then wants to re-sync the entire library (the libraries I was working with were around 36 GB in size).

I would turn off iPhoto library syncing as it's caused untold destruction to the home sync process.
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iPhoto '09 in 10.6.4 - Serious Sync Issues

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