iPhoto Library Manager 3.2 Readme

Apple's iPhoto is a convenient application to use to organize and edit your digital photos, but it restricts you to having to keep all of your photos in a single, monolithic library.  When your photo collection begins to grow, having all of your photos in one library can become unwieldy.  iPhoto Library Manager alleviates this problem by allowing you to keep multiple iPhoto libraries in different places on your computer (or even on an external drive or networked volume ) and switch back and forth between them.  It also provides at-a-glance information on each of your libraries and allows you to copy photos directly from one library to another.

iPhoto Library Manager offers the following FREE features:
- create new libraries
- maintain a list of multiple photo libraries and switch easily between them
- see the albums in each of your libraries at a glance
- see the size, version, and modification date of each of your libraries
- extract photos from the folder of a damaged library
- modify the permissions of your libraries, handy for sharing among multiple users
- rebuild a corrupted library

In addition, registered users of iPhoto Library Manager can:
- create shortcut files, allowing you to open your libraries directly from the Finder
- copy photo albums from one library to another, preserving all of the metadata associated with your photos, such as the title, date, rating, comments, and keywords (requires iPhoto 4.0.3 or later)
- merge multiple libraries together into a single library (requires iPhoto 4.0.3 or later)
- import photos by dragging and dropping directly onto a library or album (requires iPhoto 4.0.3 or later)
- sync photos from multiple libraries with your photo capable iPod

Requirements & Installation

iPhoto Library Manager 3.2 requires Mac OS X 10.3.9 or higher and iPhoto 2.0 or higher, and supports both PowerPC and Intel based Macs.  If you are running a version of OS X older than 10.3.9, you can still use iPhoto Library Manager 2.0, available at <http://homepage.mac.com/bwebster/iPhotoLibraryManager2.dmg>.

To install iPhoto Library Manager, drag the iPhoto Library Manager application icon to the Applications folder on your computer's hard drive (or anywhere else you might want to store it).  If you want to uninstall it, simply drag it from your hard drive to the trash.  The Scripts folder on this disk image contains example Applescripts for use with iPhoto Library Manager.  You can copy these to any location on your hard drive if you are interested in Applescript and want to keep a copy of them to look at, otherwise you can simply ignore them.

Documentation

To learn how to use iPhoto Library Manager, launch the application and then select "iPhoto Library Manager Help" from the Help menu.

License

iPhoto Library Manager is shareware.  It can be distributed with no charge, and most of the features are available without registering.  If you like iPhoto Library Manager or want to use some of its advanced features, a registration code can be purchased for $19.95 at <http://store.eSellerate.net/s.asp?s=STR9274391138>.

If you have any questions, problems or suggestions, send an e-mail to iplm_support@mac.com.