macOS load iphotolibrary on NAS

[ninecows]

I followed the "harder way" of sharing an iphotolibrary between several macs on this guide:

http://www.maclife.com/article/howtos/how_share_your_iphoto_library_networked_storage

But it takes several steps to load the library (I can live with that, but the WAF is too low)

I have to:

1. make sure that the share "pictures" on my NAS is mounted
2. then open/mount the iPhotoLibrary.dmg file on /Volumes/Pictures/
3. finally open the ourpictures.photolibrary file on the newly mounted /Volumes/iPhotoLibrary.

I tried making a script to do all of the above, but I cant get it to work... I'm pretty new in this scripting stuff. Can anyone help me with a complete script that will do this?

I got so far that I can get the iPhotoLibrary.dmg mounted by doing this:

try
	mount volume "afp://NAS/Pictures"
	
	do shell script "hdiutil mount '/Volumes/Pictures/iPhotoLibrary.dmg'"
	
on error
end try

...but if I put anything after this script I will get an error about line ends and the " not being right...

 

[kryten2]

What exactly are you trying to put after the try block? Please post your entire script and a screenshot of the contents of the iPhotoLibrary.dmg when it's mounted.

 

[ninecows]

I was trying stuff like

open document file "iPhoto-bibliotek.photolibrary" of disk "iPhotoLibrary"

basically just recorded via applescript.

Anyway I tried this:

do shell script "open /Volumes/iPhotoLibrary/ourpictures.photolibrary"

and it worked