Solution for 2+ users accessing one iPhoto library / one iTunes library

[john dough]

Right now, my iPhoto library (iLife 09) resides on a NAS. While it is nice to be able to get to the data on any one of my computers, if one computer has iPhoto open, the others are locked out. Is there a software solution/hack to allow 2 users in the same library at the same time?

Also, I would like to offload my HUGE iTunes library to the same NAS and access it that way as well. I would like to add/remove music from any computer running iTunes and working on the SAME library as the others. Any creative hacks or pieces of software that would allow this?

I am not leery of using terminal commands to allow manipulating these programs to behave this way. If this is not possible, it is not the end of the world; but it would be nice to have this sort of access.

[Ken Sp.]

The other user can see your iPhoto library photos, just not edit the library-iPhoto sharing. That is all I know you can do---It is likely to prevent mishaps.

[deckeda]

john dough wrote:
… if one computer has iPhoto open, the others are locked out. Is there a software solution/hack to allow 2 users in the same library at the same time?

Can't say with complete certainty there isn't a hack, but that's a requirement with iPhoto. If it sees that another copy or instance of iPhoto tries to access the same library it'll prevent it.

If you do the same thing with iTunes you'll run into the same issue because neither app has the ability to worry about just individual files from simultaneous use, so they lock out the whole library.

Not telling you anything you don't already know. But this stuff is hard coded into these apps, it's not a prefs file somewhere controlling it.

[MGS_forgot_password]

For photos, switch to Picasa.

[guitarist]

For photos, stick with iPhoto. Picasa blows.