iPhoto constantly needs permission repairs

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iPhoto constantly needs permission repairs

Hello everyone. I put a new hard drive into my mac. I used to have my iPhoto library on an external drive, but I put it on the new internal drive. Now every time I, or one of the other users, want to open iPhoto, it complains EVERY TIME "There is a problem accessing one or more files in your iPhoto library. Do you want iPhoto to repair permissions for this library for you?". We all click yes and it fixes permissions and it runs just fine. All photos seem to be there. If we quit iPhoto we have to go through this same routine any time we open it again. I've tried the command-option technique upon opening iPhoto and I've tried all the options to rebuild permissions, database, etc. It's all no help. Anyone have any idea what is going on and how to fix this?

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.5)

Posted on Mar 27, 2015 6:18 PM

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Yer_Man

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Mar 27, 2015 11:39 PM in response to bshonky

Now every time I, or one of the other users, want to open iPhoto, it complains EVERY TIME

If you have multiple user accounts accessing the same iPhoto Library then it needs to be on an external disk, formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and set to ignore ownership and permissions. There is no way to share an iPhoto Library among accounts from the start-up disk, without these issues.

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léonie

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Mar 28, 2015 12:26 AM in response to bshonky

Here is an Apple Support document on sharing a library on an external drive, like Terence Devlin recommended:

See this link: iPhoto: Sharing libraries among multiple users

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bshonky Author

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Mar 28, 2015 8:02 AM in response to léonie

It seems very strange to me that users of a computer can not share the iPhoto library unless it's on an external drive. But I guess that is the way the Apple Gods have decreed it. Thanks for your help guys!

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Old Toad

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Mar 28, 2015 9:40 AM in response to bshonky

If you want to repartition the hard drive so there's one partition just for the iPhoto Library you can do what you want. The partition would be the same an an external HD partition. However, you will have to make sure it's large enough to accommodate any library size increase in the future so you don't get locked of of the library and eventually have to get an external HD anyway.

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