léonie Its single user design is in itself the flaw. iPhoto for mac is a computer app. Computers can be shared among users especially in a family. if Apple wanted to let users have a a private photo library (which is very good) there should be a way to have a public one as well, shared among users.
Now I know you might ask me to simply have another library and option-click at launch to select it, but a good design would be letting users to swtich between a private and a shared library from within the app.
This would also let users quickly move files between a private and a public library, which is impossible at the moment without help from paid 3rd party apps like iPhoto library manager.
LarryHN i am pretty sure nothing will change cause there are people over here who are minions and would accept anything thrown their way. its users like me who made Microsoft fall and apple rise, cause we made the switch for something better. and if things become stagnant again, we wont mind switching to something else. rest of us love Apple products just as some of you do but we refuse to be iSlaves.
Apple is a great company, but not my religion.
In any case, you spoiled the whole thread focused on finding a non documented alternative by your unnecessary complaints about supposed 'yelling and tantrums'. if u seek to help then know that people come over here when google fails. so expect desperation.
Terence Devlin, léonie, thanks for your help. do u think it will be a good idea to manage photos in a finder folder and have them sync to ios devices. i dont really need to use iphoto on mac for anything else but storing photos in one place. all the little enhancements and editing i need can be done from my ios device. will the changes sync back? is it a good idea in general? thanks.
