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 JohnWeston,

    JohnWeston JohnWeston Mar 8, 2014 11:23 AM in response to leonard55
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    Mar 8, 2014 11:23 AM in response to leonard55

    It's not as simple as local sharing used to be, but here's the iCloud-based solution my wife and I are currently using. (We each download directly from our SLR into our own libraries, but sharing our iPhone shots hasn't been easy, because you can't share your main Photo Stream; this takes care of that part.)

     

    • Make a new keyword in iPhoto (we use "Shared")
    • Make a new Smart Album, with these two criteria:
      • Camera Model > is > [iPhone model]
      • Keyword > is not > Shared
    • One of you make a new Photo Stream (we called it "Sharesies"), and invite the other; allow posting
    • Then, every now and then:
      • Go to your Smart Album, select all, share to the shared Photo Stream
      • Add the Shared keyword to all of them (they'll disappear from the album)

     

    Now we've got a central repository for all our separately-taken iPhone shots, from which we can pick and choose what to import to our own libraries. Again, it's not as good as it used to be, but it'll do for now.

     

    Also: Like your main stream, shared Photo Streams do not count against your iCloud storage limits, and the total number of photos/videos you can have in one shared stream is 5000, not 1000 like your primary stream.

  • by Brian Smale,

    Brian Smale Brian Smale Apr 11, 2014 12:57 PM in response to leonard55
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    Apr 11, 2014 12:57 PM in response to leonard55

    As a Mac user since 1987, I too am dismayed by the way Apple arbitrarily cans very useful software features for no obvious reason. I always give feedback to their product organization, but, without feedback from them, it's a very disheartening activity.

     

    People in this thread have suggested Photostream as an alternative to LAN sharing of photos, but, quite honestly, Photostream is a half-baked product. Apart from the various shortcomings mentioned by other posters, there is also the fact that all the titles, comments and star ratings are lost when photos are uploaded to Photostream. All that appears with each photo is the original ID number assigned by the camera. What use is such a limited product? Like many others, I use Dropbox, where all the photo information except the star rating is preserved. Even so, it's nothing like as efficient as simple sharing over a LAN. Has Apple simply lost the plot these days?

     

    Wouldn't it be nice if Apple said, "here all the nice shiny features of our (ahem) upgraded product AND here are the things we decided to drop, and why".

  • by Terence Devlin,

    Terence Devlin Terence Devlin Apr 11, 2014 3:30 PM in response to Brian Smale
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    Apr 11, 2014 3:30 PM in response to Brian Smale

    iPhoto Menu -> Provide iPhoto Feedback

  • by jigbobby,

    jigbobby jigbobby Apr 17, 2014 2:45 PM in response to leonard55
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    Apr 17, 2014 2:45 PM in response to leonard55

    As someone who has a very large iPhoto library on a Mac Pro, but likes to look through and send a few pictures out from said library using my MacBookAir, is Apple suggesting I need to put hundreds of gigs on to my Air as well as my Pro just so I can do lightweight editing and posting from my Air? That's ridiculous.

  • by Terence Devlin,

    Terence Devlin Terence Devlin Apr 17, 2014 3:18 PM in response to jigbobby
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    Apr 17, 2014 3:18 PM in response to jigbobby

    iPhoto Menu -> Provide iPhoto Feedback

  • by Tom Wilcoxen,

    Tom Wilcoxen Tom Wilcoxen May 20, 2014 7:36 PM in response to jigbobby
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    May 20, 2014 7:36 PM in response to jigbobby

    Very sad to find this feature gone. We shared iPhoto libraries around the family, mainly from my iMac to the kids MBPs so they can pull some out they want. Photostream is a serious downgrade and seems like a crummy attempt by Apple to push users into using their cloud technologies.

  • by LarryHN,

    LarryHN LarryHN May 20, 2014 7:44 PM in response to Tom Wilcoxen
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    May 20, 2014 7:44 PM in response to Tom Wilcoxen

    iPhoto Menu -> Provide iPhoto Feedback

     

    LN

  • by wurzelgrumpf,

    wurzelgrumpf wurzelgrumpf May 20, 2014 10:27 PM in response to LarryHN
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    May 20, 2014 10:27 PM in response to LarryHN

    The discussion needs to stay public, LarryHN. I think that quite some people (including myself) have submitted Feedback via the built in menu. To no avail, that is. So, let's keep it public!

  • by LarryHN,

    LarryHN LarryHN May 21, 2014 6:54 AM in response to wurzelgrumpf
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    May 21, 2014 6:54 AM in response to wurzelgrumpf

    Why? It has no value - reporting to Apple does - best to sepnd time doing things that make a diference

     

    LN

  • by wurzelgrumpf,

    wurzelgrumpf wurzelgrumpf May 21, 2014 10:40 AM in response to LarryHN
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    May 21, 2014 10:40 AM in response to LarryHN

    LarryHN: So far, neither nor has solved the problem, or?. Thus, none made a difference. Are you indicating that we should just digest it and get over it?

  • by ChrisRR,

    ChrisRR ChrisRR May 21, 2014 11:10 AM in response to wurzelgrumpf
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    May 21, 2014 11:10 AM in response to wurzelgrumpf

    There is a bit of a culture on here that goes out to maintain a 'way of doing things' that is not quiet the reality. 'The way' is that no-one from Apple reads these posts, and neither does anyone from Apple pay any attention to sentiments expressed here - regardless of volume or strength. If that were true, it would make Apple out to be a pretty naive, intellectually challenged business outfit to say the least, would it not? Although the majority of sentiment on here is negative, I know that Apple, like other modern firms who sponsor such product forums, will take that into consideration, but still view this place as a vital source of feedback and customer opinion. But the official line is that "Apple don't read these posts, and no-one from Apple ever come here...". So, whilst I agree that the first course of action is to do as LarryHN advises and complete the feedback form in the iPhoto menu, the other way to get to Apple's ears is to generate interest here - whilst remembering that the prinipal purpose of the forum is to get and give help.

    IMHO, of course.

  • by Carlos Alberto Boton,

    Carlos Alberto Boton Carlos Alberto Boton Jun 30, 2014 7:48 PM in response to leonard55
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    Jun 30, 2014 7:48 PM in response to leonard55

    We are travelling to a universe of locked up system and apps.

    Apple, that and retiring BOTH Aperture and iPhoto clearly shows consumers are the last thing to think about, isn't it?

  • by Terence Devlin,

    Terence Devlin Terence Devlin Jun 30, 2014 11:11 PM in response to Carlos Alberto Boton
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    Jun 30, 2014 11:11 PM in response to Carlos Alberto Boton

    We are travelling to a universe of locked up system and apps.

     

    Huh? Every system is locked up. All of them have entry requirements. They all need hardware to run on for a start.

     

    Apple, that and retiring BOTH Aperture and iPhoto clearly shows consumers are the last thing to think about, isn't it

     

    Bit of a glass half empty guy. The other way to look at it is that Apple are migrating to a new app that has extra features.

  • by Carlos Alberto Boton,

    Carlos Alberto Boton Carlos Alberto Boton Jun 30, 2014 11:22 PM in response to Terence Devlin
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    Jun 30, 2014 11:22 PM in response to Terence Devlin

    You win...

  • by Shuangchun Yan,

    Shuangchun Yan Shuangchun Yan Jul 22, 2014 12:24 PM in response to JohnWeston
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    Jul 22, 2014 12:24 PM in response to JohnWeston

    disappointing.

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