Comments on: Managing multiple iPhoto libraries

By: TS

TS — Mon, 24 May 2010 01:12:48 +0000

your little box of tweet/facebook/etc is blocking the actual material. might want to fix that (i’m using chrome)

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:21:20 +0000

Is there an easy way to move photos between libraries?

Do far the best I could come up with is to copy each file to the desk to, close one library, open the other, then drag he photos from the desktop to the new library.

By: Caren

Caren — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:24:08 +0000

I was hoping this would be my solution for archiving photos on my external hard drive. I created a second iPhoto library on the hard drive, but now I can’t get the photos over there. I tried to export, but it copies a few pictures then I get “Unable to create /Volumes/MyHardDrive/archive”. When I cancel, the folder is there, with 9 pictures.

Thanks!

By: Sly

Sly — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 09:27:52 +0000

Right Ulcer35, for real Library management “iphoto Library Manager” is working fine. http://www.fatcatsoftware.com/iplm/

Anyway the apple trick is fine for “simple” Library switching. Tks for it !

By: Joshua Schnell

Joshua Schnell — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:52:46 +0000

Thanks Monsignor Martinez. Glad we could help you out. It took me a while to stumble on how to do that. I’m not sure why they’ve decided to bury the option to do that.

By: Monsignor Martinez

Monsignor Martinez — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 16:24:05 +0000

Nice little guide; exactly what I was looking for. I have lots of friends photos from events and whatnot that I like to maintain, yet I don’t like the idea of housing them in the same library as my photos. Using this functionality will allow me to keep one iPhoto library for my own photography, and another for friends’ pictures.

In response to the person above, I think the title is fine. If you view managing from a higher perspective, I would say that juggling which iPhoto library you are using constitutes management, and in any case I arrived at post after searching for “multiple iPhoto libraries”, so the title worked for me.

By: Ulcer35

Ulcer35 — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:41:19 +0000

Might want to change your title. This isn’t “managing” multiple libraries, it’s switching between multiple libraries. I was looking moving pics between multiple libraries, which would be some type of library management. Your tip is great, but doesn’t really constitute “management”.

By: Marcos

Marcos — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:35:15 +0000

Neat tip! thanks

keeping the messy nights out photos separate to family holidays

By: Joshua Schnell

Joshua Schnell — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:47:25 +0000

Thanks for the encouragement. There’s a lot of awesome tips and tricks here. Hope you can stick around. :)

By: Silvio

Silvio — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:45:29 +0000

Thanks for the video … it was exactly what I was looking for … AAA+