leonard55

Q: iPhoto 9.5 dropped Mac-to-Mac sharing?

I just installed the latest OSX Mavericks update and iPhoto '11 9.5 and it appears that the old Mac-to-Mac sharing is gone! I don't see a Sharing tab on Preferences any more and none of our other Macs running iPhoto are listed in the sidebar.

 

If it's really gone, I wonder what Apple expects people to use instead? iCloud doesn't do the job because it's only the last 1000 photos (at best), so you can't see old photos.

iPhoto '11, OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Oct 22, 2013 4:06 PM

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  • by rudibarani,

    rudibarani rudibarani Nov 21, 2013 9:21 AM in response to adrinux
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    Nov 21, 2013 9:21 AM in response to adrinux

    "Absolutely nothing is there to replicate the convenience and speed of the bonjour based iPhoto sharing that Apple just removed."

     

    This really nails it! Bonjour sharing and cloud-based services serve completely different purposes.

     

    Apple: please give us sharing back!!!

  • by LarryHN,

    LarryHN LarryHN Nov 21, 2013 9:24 AM in response to rudibarani
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    Nov 21, 2013 9:24 AM in response to rudibarani

    good idea except this is not a way to address Apple - here you are only talking to other users and even if everyone here agrees nothing happens - suggest to Apple - iPhoto menu ==> provide iPhoto feedback

     

    LN

  • by Shawdavid,

    Shawdavid Shawdavid Nov 22, 2013 1:19 PM in response to leonard55
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    Nov 22, 2013 1:19 PM in response to leonard55

    am trying the DISK image suggested in the following support article and will report back on success

  • by Applewood,

    Applewood Applewood Nov 22, 2013 5:43 PM in response to leonard55
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    Nov 22, 2013 5:43 PM in response to leonard55

    The changes to Mavericks iPhoto 11.9.5 are disruptive, not improvements to the application.  My sons used photo sharing to copy family photos they liked best into their own photo libraries. They can't do this anymore with iPhoto 11.9.5.  Using Photo Stream is not a solution because I don't know ahead of time what events or dates or locations any son wants to look at. Should somebody in my family have to make an appointment to view photos, telling me ahead of time what time, place, and event they want to review?  Sure takes the fun and spontaneity out of using an Apple device.  Apple, remember spontaneity?  I used to be your selling point.

     

    I know this is not the place that Apple looks at for feedback.  I will go to the Apple web site to formally protest the change.

  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad Nov 22, 2013 7:21 PM in response to Applewood
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    Nov 22, 2013 7:21 PM in response to Applewood

    Send a feature request to Apple via http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphoto.html.

  • by wurzelgrumpf,

    wurzelgrumpf wurzelgrumpf Nov 23, 2013 2:08 AM in response to leonard55
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    Nov 23, 2013 2:08 AM in response to leonard55

    21st century. I'm back putting my photos on a stick and hand it to my wife who wants to create a calendar with them.


    Removing the feature to "publish" a library or selected folders/projects and, hence, enabling Macs in a household to at least view and copy from a central library is a joke. I want to have choice and control over my pics and don't be forced to stream pics over a slow broadband upload. That takes AGES. Searching in Apple support, you still get support on how to share a library in a network with iPhoto 11. Not a single word was lost that this great functionality has been removed. Has Apple hired Microsoft engineers to run a dictate on their users?
    The iPhoto-Feedback page would not even open. I hope that is because of the criticism flooding the developers.

  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad Nov 23, 2013 8:42 AM in response to wurzelgrumpf
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    Nov 23, 2013 8:42 AM in response to wurzelgrumpf

    I'm back putting my photos on a stick and hand it to my wife who wants to create a calendar with them.

    If you're both running Lion or later and have WiFi you can use AirDrop to transfer files between Macs.

     

    Screen Shot 2013-11-23 at 8.41.24 AM.jpg

     

    OT

  • by JohnWeston,

    JohnWeston JohnWeston Nov 23, 2013 8:53 AM in response to Old Toad
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    Nov 23, 2013 8:53 AM in response to Old Toad

    You could also just both access the same iPhoto Library, by following these directions. Can't open it simultaneously, and you'd have to work out how to access the same drive from different machines, but at least it'd eliminate the photo transfer steps.

  • by wurzelgrumpf,

    wurzelgrumpf wurzelgrumpf Nov 23, 2013 10:32 AM in response to Old Toad
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    Nov 23, 2013 10:32 AM in response to Old Toad

    Thanks, Old Toad, for the suggestion. But is is not about spreading files across the home and having duplicates on each machine. Talking about the "stick" was a metaphore. Although, with a stick, I can at least keep the files away from flooding the local iPhoto-library and creating duplicates during the selection process for the calendar.

    Thanks, JohnWeston, but that is no option, either, as I don't want the whole library to be fiddled around with by anybody but me.
    The option to open up a folder or project to someone within the same network as view/download only is gone and there is no way to do what this option could using another trick.

    Removing that piece of functionality was certainly not well thought through.

  • by BigPonyMan,

    BigPonyMan BigPonyMan Nov 28, 2013 8:37 AM in response to leonard55
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    Nov 28, 2013 8:37 AM in response to leonard55

    So, I want to thank all of you for posting as it now validates a problem that I ust noticed with my Apple TV 3d generation. (I did post to the apple link provided above).  The problem is that with the functionality of sharing on a LAN or home WiFi network removed from iphoto, you can no longer select which photos or folders of photos from iphotos appear on your Apple TV; and more importantly on its screensaver.  Of course, you can share your photostream but you might not want every picture that you or your family of photostreamed idevices takes appearing on your 60" TV. This is particularly annoying in that if you take a photo of the bottle of wine at dinner in a restaurant to remember to see if you can buy it at the local supermarket that picture can appear in giant form on your 60" TV when you least expect it as photostream might be your screensaver.  Of couse, you can fix these problems by not sharing your photostream with every idevice or your ATV but you shouldn't have to.  Why can you not just have your iMac as your picture repository using iphoto and choose which photos can be shared within your home network - without creating an internet phoitostream?

  • by wurzelgrumpf,

    wurzelgrumpf wurzelgrumpf Nov 28, 2013 9:13 AM in response to BigPonyMan
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    Nov 28, 2013 9:13 AM in response to BigPonyMan

    Hi BigPonyMan,

    super wrap up. Bottom line: Apple went 5 steps back to make one ahead. I literally run around with a stick nowadays. And that MUST not be!
    Well, I use my Synology to run slide shows nowadays. Not really good for Apple but what choice do I have?
    My Aperture-Database is 300GB. Does Apple really think that PhotStream or AirDrop is an option?

  • by ChrisRR,

    ChrisRR ChrisRR Nov 30, 2013 7:04 AM in response to leonard55
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    Nov 30, 2013 7:04 AM in response to leonard55

    I came here after struggling to work out why my Mavericks iphoto library wasn't 'seeing' my Snow Leopard Library on the Mac in the other room. Now I know why. This really helps me to understand why Apple is such a key player in the world of IT, yet is losing so many customers. I can't understand though, why people don't like this reverse trend that Apple pursues now, where they reduce, stunt, shorten, deplete, dilute and degrade hardware and software. What's not to like? Now I can't share iPhoto Libraries between Macs in my home? What's wrong with that? All I have to do is go into all those settings in that iCloud thing that rarely works, start up a new photostream, go through my 45,000 photographs and choose which ones I'd like to share and wait 2 hours or 2 weeks for them to upload somewhere in the ether before I can then view them on a computer 20 feet away - but not before I've waited the obligatory 20-30 seconds of watching that beautiful swirling white thingumijig for the next photo to load up. Walk in the park! Why have a system that used to take 2-3 seconds to work when you can create one that takes a couple of days?

    I will send some feedback to Apple, yes. But we all know it shouldn't be necessary to have to go to the trouble of writing an email to a company, asking it to stop acting in an illogical way because it's frightening the children, making the dogs bark, and generally making people uncomfortable. They have bright, intelligent people working for them who have already listened to their customers don't they?

     

    Here's another reason why we should all stick to Snow Leopard, analogue watches and log fires. They all just work.

  • by wurzelgrumpf,

    wurzelgrumpf wurzelgrumpf Nov 30, 2013 7:54 AM in response to ChrisRR
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    Nov 30, 2013 7:54 AM in response to ChrisRR

    @ChrisRR: You made my day! We might consider a PS4 or XBox to do what Apple-Software ceased to do. Unluckily, Apple is a VERY bad listener as listening is against the Apple paradigm which is telling. Seriously, if they had been listening to the people during the last years, they'd have not come up with products that we did not even know we need. However, if we get the stuff, realize that we can actually use it (although we were never lacking the functionality in the past) and THEN, Apple takes it away from us, it is like giving Lego to my daughter, wait, until she likes it and start taking bits and pieces away from her.
    Yes, sometimes, it is good to remove overhead. But just removing "overhead" in order to force people into their partially dysfunctional iCloud-offering is like being taken hostage.
    Well, I bough some more memory sticks today.

  • by martin21045,

    martin21045 martin21045 Nov 30, 2013 7:04 PM in response to wurzelgrumpf
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    Nov 30, 2013 7:04 PM in response to wurzelgrumpf

    I just sent a note to Apple's on line feedback page, here's my 2 cents:

     

    "Please reinstate easy Mac to Mac sharing of iPhoto images and information (description, faces, etc.).

     

    My Mac iPhoto has ~22,000 photos, often I share them with my wife or family through the home networking - Apple used to make this easy. Now with iPhoto 9.5 that option is gone. Instead you expect those of us who bought a computer 'for the rest of us' to set up cloud account, and buy costly internet access, etc.

     

    My wife's MacBook Pro has iPhoto 9.4, my MacBook Pro has Mavericks. I really gained nothing since I am not 'cloud based', or on any social networks. What grates me is how Apple releases new versions of software, that we'd like to believe are less buggy or otherwise improved, until we learn the hard way that we've made a mistake."

  • by DaMaik,

    DaMaik DaMaik Dec 11, 2013 1:39 PM in response to martin21045
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    Dec 11, 2013 1:39 PM in response to martin21045

    Hi,

     

    I had the same problem as everybody around. I was very disappointed during the last days.

    Clyde (see his answer below) made my day! Now it finally works and i can sync my photos from iPhoto via

    USB/iTunes to my iPad. Clyde, thanks a million!

     

    Hopefully it will work on your computer.

     

    Kind Regards,

    Maik

     

     

     

    https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5655974

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