My wife and I both maintain separate iPhoto libraries on our laptops. We both have our creative differences about how the libraries should be maintained. :)

I have a G5 tower downstairs that serves as our general use workstation/server. I'd like to set up an rsync job to synchronize both libraries to one master library downstairs. I'm not sure where to start in a way that would make sure the new "Master" library is actually usable in iPhoto.

Now that I type this, I guess I could sync both libraries separately, then occasionally merge them manually... I guess I'd like a fully automated solution if possible. I "think" this would be possible with rsync, just don't know enough about the iPhoto library database to know which rsync options would be best.

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I would also like to know this, as I want to sync a single iphoto library across 4 logins (2 accounts on 2 computers each) so that either of us can access the library on either computer. People have mentioned dropbox solutions, but my library is getting pretty big. – micmcg Feb 15 '10 at 22:34
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The best I could come up with was using rsync to sync both libraries to the workstation/server downstairs, and manually merge the photos. Tedious, yes, but couldn't find any other way.

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iPhoto Library Manager could be an option...

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