Comments on: View Your iPhoto Library From Your iPad [UPDATED]

By: spikemusic

spikemusic — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 17:48:41 +0000

i have filebrowser and can ‘see’ the photo files perfectly but there is only chronological order to the folders, no albums or events, etc

By: spikemusic

spikemusic — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 17:47:43 +0000

sort of,I have 4 or so libraries on my NAS, I would like for my wife to be able to open them on her ipad and choose photos, etc. it sounds like I would have to have my macbook pro on and open and specially share one library – is that right?

By: Matt Long

Matt Long — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 17:36:48 +0000

@spikemusic

If you can share the library from the sharing tab in preferences, then PhotoGrab will be able to see it. However, iPhoto can only share one library at a time, so you wouldn't be able to select a different library on the fly. Is that what you mean?

-Matt

By: spikemusic

spikemusic — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:55:47 +0000

I have several iphoto libraries on a NAS drive, will this app work to ‘link’ them and thus allow me to choose which library i want to open on my ipad?

By: Matt Long

Matt Long — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 18:59:15 +0000

@StuFF mc Unfortunately at the moment all of the promo codes for the current version have been taken or have expired. I will let you know the next time I have some available.

Best regards.

By: StuFF mc

StuFF mc — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 15:50:14 +0000

Hey Matt I’m just stumbling upon this. As every developer probably ever heard at least once : “I had the exact same idea for an app” ;-) But as the same developer hopefully heard just after “I’m glad you’ve done it already” ;)

Would you have a promo code left for me? I’d love to speak about it on either my website http://pomcast.biz or my twitter @stuffmc – speaking on which, who are you on twitter?

Cheers.

By: timbeynart

timbeynart — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 15:24:26 +0000

Thanks Matt, that explains the dearth of info online. I will parse the library data directly from the filesystem and skip iPhoto altogether.

By: Matt Long

Matt Long — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 22:28:09 +0000

@timbeynart The iPhoto protocol is unpublished. There are no Apple docs for it.

By: timbeynart

timbeynart — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 22:00:46 +0000

I have scoured the developer documentation at apple.com and can find nothing on an iPhoto API or SDK. I want to learn Obj-C (I am a developer) and basically replicate your app, but am surprised at how little information there is for working with iPhoto. Do you have any hints? I assume I need to use Bonjour to connect, but after that I am clueless!

By: myoung

myoung — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:17:52 +0000

Interesting. I should have thought that Apple would have an easy way to implement Aperture downloads. When you chose to synch photos on the iPhone or iPad, you have the option of all or albums from either iPhoto or Aperture, but curiously not from both. Hmmm.

By: Matt Long

Matt Long — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:20:13 +0000

@myoung

Unfortunately, Aperture does not support the iPhoto protocol so implementing this isn't as simple as I would like. I am, however, planning to build an Aperture plugin that will implement the iPhoto protocol so that you can share between iPhoto, Aperture, and PhotoGrab.

Thanks.

By: myoung

myoung — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:04:53 +0000

I love the idea of this app. However, I keep all my photos in Aperture libraries. My wife keeps photos in an iPhoto library. I wonder if a future release could extract photos from either or both. Thanks.

By: Andy W

Andy W — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:14:30 +0000

Just downloaded it and looks very cool. However, doesn’t seem to work with password protected libraries, which isn’t mentioned anywhere. Fix on the way?