How do I move organized photos from dropbox to iPhoto and share with another user on the same mac?

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How do I move organized photos from dropbox to iPhoto and share with another user on the same mac?

I have about 3,500 photos sitting in dropbox and just purchased my first mac yesterday. My husband and I each have our own Ipad and our own user id's on the mac. I moved two of the folders to Iphoto and it shows up on my screen in the right folders. However, on my Ipad, it shows all of them under one Photostream and not organized. They don't show up on my husband's "side of the computer" at all.

So my questions are:

1. How does one mirror their file organization on the Ipad?

2. How does one share all of the folders with another user on the same Ipad so they can view folders, and add pictures to the folders if they like?

Thanks!

iPod touch, iOS 5

Posted on Feb 17, 2014 3:48 AM

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léonie

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Feb 17, 2014 5:05 AM in response to Kathy67

1. How does one mirror their file organization on the Ipad?

If you use the Photo Stream, the organisation in iPhoto will be lost - there is just one endless stream. YOu could sync your photos using iTunes. Then you will see the synced albums in the Photos.app on the iPad.

See this link: iOS and iPod: Syncing photos using iTunes

How does one share all of the folders with another user on the same Ipad so they can view folders, and add pictures to the folders if they like?

On the same iPad? Do you mean on the same mac?

If you want to share an iPhoto library between two users on the same mac, the iPhoto library should be on a separate disk partition or even better, on a separate external disk. Then you can set the flag "Ignore ownership on this volume" to avoid permission problems. Both of you will be able to browse the iPhoto library and can edit the photos within.

See this support document: iPhoto: Sharing libraries among multiple users

If both of you want to keep separate iPhoto libraries but share the photos, you could share selected albums as Shared PhotoStreams and invite each other to browse them. This would require iOS 7. Do you have iOS 7 on your iPad? Each Shared Photo Stream will be shown as a separate album on your iPad .

iCloud: Using and troubleshooting Shared Photo Streams

Regards

Léonie

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Answer 2

Kathy67 Author

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Feb 17, 2014 6:26 AM in response to léonie

Thanks Leonie. I have discovered in my attempts to do some of the above that I may require assistance from someone who can sit with me and show me exactly what to do. Just my learning style I guess. Thanks for taking the time to provide the above though. I am used to working with windows and switching operating systems is throwing me for a loop.

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