I have a very large iPhoto library which I've been successfully sharing on one iMac across multiple users.
The iPhoto library lives in /Users/Shared/Pictures/
and the library and enclosing folder's permissions are set so both my wife and I can use it. This directory lives on the Mac's main internal boot drive volume (not an external drive)
Of course, only one person can have the library open at a time, but otherwise either of us can log into our own userID on this Mac and use iPhoto. We've been using it this way for many years.
because of the size of our iPhoto library, I'm very worried something will break when updating to the new Photos, so to avoid disaster I've been testing a copy of our iPhoto library on a second iMac, before converting the library on our main Mac.
With this test setup I've discovered I cannot access the shared Photos Library with a second user. When I try to launch Photos and choose the library as the second user (holding down Option when launching Photos), I get an error message:
"An error occurred while repairing permissions. Photos was unable to repair permissions on your library". The only choice at that point is to quit
If in the Finder I manually change the permissions to add R/W access for the other user, same thing happens.
If I login as the second user and try to change the library's permissions in the Finder (entering my administrator username & password), I get a Finder error message (error -8076), and cannot change the permissions
If I launch Photos while holding down Option - Command (which like the old iPhoto will let you repair library permissions before launch), the Photos app goes off for a while to repair library permissions, but afterwards I'm still stuck with just one user access.
Anybody out there get Photos working for more than one user sharing a single library, like old iPhoto used to be able to do?
I'm fine using Terminal and chown or other command-line commands, if there are any other tricky ways to fix this
The iPhoto library lives in /Users/Shared/Pictures/
and the library and enclosing folder's permissions are set so both my wife and I can use it. This directory lives on the Mac's main internal boot drive volume (not an external drive)
Of course, only one person can have the library open at a time, but otherwise either of us can log into our own userID on this Mac and use iPhoto. We've been using it this way for many years.
because of the size of our iPhoto library, I'm very worried something will break when updating to the new Photos, so to avoid disaster I've been testing a copy of our iPhoto library on a second iMac, before converting the library on our main Mac.
With this test setup I've discovered I cannot access the shared Photos Library with a second user. When I try to launch Photos and choose the library as the second user (holding down Option when launching Photos), I get an error message:
"An error occurred while repairing permissions. Photos was unable to repair permissions on your library". The only choice at that point is to quit
If in the Finder I manually change the permissions to add R/W access for the other user, same thing happens.
If I login as the second user and try to change the library's permissions in the Finder (entering my administrator username & password), I get a Finder error message (error -8076), and cannot change the permissions
If I launch Photos while holding down Option - Command (which like the old iPhoto will let you repair library permissions before launch), the Photos app goes off for a while to repair library permissions, but afterwards I'm still stuck with just one user access.
Anybody out there get Photos working for more than one user sharing a single library, like old iPhoto used to be able to do?
I'm fine using Terminal and chown or other command-line commands, if there are any other tricky ways to fix this