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

That's true.  Only one user can access at a time.  To run in that mode one would have to communicate with the other users to verify that the library is free for use. 

There's another facet of this problem.  The iCloud approach to photo sharing is not a realistic option for those of us with limited internet bandwidth and/or data caps. 

It just doesn't make any sense regardless.  Why have duplicate image files scattered across several machines? It worked greate before, with my headless mac mini running OS X Server, and iPhoto sharing out the family library.  We could look at any photos on the server from any machine, and pull down to our local iPhoto the ones we wanted for printing, using in projects, etc.  And no impact on my internet allowance.

OK - Tell Apple - iPhoto menu ==> Provide iPhoto feedback

LN

First, i've provided feedback to apple to bring photo sharing back.

With that out of the way, here's my issue; My wife and i have a young daughter and a shared photostream is an awesome way to keep friends and family updated.  we used to share an apple ID, so we could both update the photostream with new pictures of our daughter we were taking particularly with our phones.  well eventually it came time that my wife got her own apple ID (cloud space constraints...which when i type it sounds ironic).  Only problem is that now she cant update the shared photostream associated with my apple ID.  we could make it a public photostream, but i dont want teh 40+ subscribers posting new photos, just my wife and myself.  unfortunately you cant share that privelege with just one person, its all or nothing.  So i created a new user account for her on our macbook pro, figuring that she'd be able to access her phone's photostream from her account, then log into my account and update the shared phototream with access to the her photo library on the same computer via the home sharing feature.  But now with this feature removed, she cant get to them!  The photos are all on the same machine, but there's this virtual barrier that is keeping us from sharing photos of our daughter with our friends and family!  so frustrating...  any suggestions?

Try using a sharing site like Flickr for the job. Share the account with your wife so either of you can upload and on FLickr you can set the access to just the folks you want to.

I'm following the discussion for some time and I don't get it?

The old sharing feature was excellent, it was the solution for many use cases, users loved it.

Why should a software company remove such a feature? Because of technical reasons? No.

Because of strategic reasons seems to be the only reason I can think of. Apple seems to have

such a strong interest to force people into their iCloud that they are willing to disappoint their

users. This is even worse because Apple seems to be the company in the past that cared

most about the user experience of their products.

Don't get me wrong I'm using iCloud, I'm not the guy who rejects the use of the Internet

after the NSA scandal. I'm simply interested to have a good software product that solves my

use cases in a simple straight forward way. iCloud, Flickr, Dropbox, etc. is NOT the straight forward

solution for the use case sharing my photos in my home. Being forced pushing thousands of photos

through the internet is the worst solution I can think of for that specific use case.

I have started looking for other software solutions which I haven't even thought of for years.

I assume that I'm not the only iPhoto user with this kind of thoughts. Shouldn't this ring the

alarm bell at Apple?

Is there an official statement from Apple that explains why they dropped the solutions so many

users enjoyed? I'm always willing to learn why my personal and many other users way of thinking

is wrong.

perhaps we should become more loud. A blog pointing all of Apple's mistakes and bad software could do the Job. I am a Mac user and evengalist since 1986 and many things are not getting better and some even get worse.

Oh yes. A Blog. That'll do it. You start one.

There is no statement at all from Apple, but I would note that in the past, decisions like this have been reversed in sunsequent versions - mailing from iPhoto 11 being one case. Use the Feedback System to let them know what you want and if enough folks do, then there's a chance they'll undo what they've done.

I am considering approacing one of the mac pulications like mac rumors to open a section about disppointments from Apple

You are right. I wrote to them about it and the more of us that will do so a better chance we have that they reverse this mistake

Shuka, that worked certainly with the ridiculous abolition of 'Save As'. That fundamental function was reinstated (of sorts) following the uproar from users. However, I wouldn't hold your breath for anything else to be altered as a result of customers' voices, especially since then, Pages, iMovie, FCP, Airport Utility, Keynote and Mac OS X have all been pretty much been neutered with no regard to common sense or customer priorities.

The only significant influencer might be APL's recent fall from grace in recent surveys about "Customer Experience" now behing Samsung and Microsoft Windows. Market forces. End of.

To fix the iPhoto sharing debacle, I have reverted my machines from ML and Mavericks all back to Snow Leopard 10.6.8. Sorted.

I already posted a reply here and also submitted my feedback to Apple. But looking at the total number of replies to this post - which is currently at 86, I don't think Apple will move. I had expected much more momentum on this, especially as Apple also seems to have dropped the local sharing option from the latest version of Aperture.

There's something else here too. The local sharing is part of Bonjour sharing is it not? There was the whole big marketing push for Bonjour a few years ago, and all the great network sharing features it provided. Now that's no longer the big thing...features are just dropped. The marketing is behind iCloud etc instead. Typical Apple, just dropping things when they lose interest.

To be fair the number of households with more than one mac must be small compared to those with multiple iOS devices, and given the storage capacity issues on said devices I'd say storage in the cloud is very sensible.

Still, its annoying to have lost a very convenient and sensible local sharing option without warning.

Makes me think of having a media server and switching the desktops over to Linux, if we're going to have to do it ourselves, no reason to be tied into Apple...

This is really disappointing ... I was just telling my wife she could copy my photo library to hers - and they removed the feature.

Apple TV can see the photos on my Mac, but her Mac can't.