On Nov 3, 2013, at 1:23 AM, LuKreme <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On 02 Nov 2013, at 13:20 , Kevin Callahan <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> iPhoto Home Sharing
>
> What is iPhoto Home Sharing and what does it do that "My Photostream" or
> "iCloud Photo Sharing" don't do?
Couple of things:
If you launch the Videos app on iOS7, you will see a "Shared" text "button"
across the top. There, I can find shared movies across any of my computers on
my LAN. I can view them on my iOS device, but they are coming off my local
computers. They are not in iCloud. I could never (and would never) put
terabytes of my movies up in the cloud and have to rely on streaming them from
the cloud when they are here on my LAN.
iPhoto, 'til now, had the same sharing option (and oddly, it was activated in
iTunes -because that's where Home Sharing is/was enabled) where one could view
shared photo libraries across the LAN from any computer or iOS device. That's
gone now.
It's not reasonable for me to put my 48,000 photos and movies (238 GB) into
iCloud, which are already organized in some 50+ albums, and also put the
libraries (and albums) of my other computers in the cloud when we could share
these libraries and albums across the LAN via Home Sharing as we can currently
do with movies.
In this case, shared streams is not a viable solution at all. For one, if I
were to share each of my 50+ albums just on my iMac alone (totaling 48,000
photos and movies - 238 GB), these photos would theoretically supposed to be
pushed down to all my iOS devices and other computers.
Seems like removing iPhoto Home Sharing is a major oversight. No?
-Kevin
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