I learned a valuable lesson on the recent Mac Mania IV sail to Mexico : When it come to sharing , treat your iPhoto library differently than your iTunes library .
I was pose outside the Internet Center , chit-chat with a fellow instructor while mucking with some photos I ’d just import into iPhoto 6 . I glance over at iPhoto ’s informant listing and descry the share photo library of a passenger in the vicinity ( I could n’t see them , but lie with they had to be close enough for my AirPort scorecard to clean them up ) . calculate that sharing would n’t have been switch on if this mortal did n’t want their photo view , I took the chance to glint .
I line up a compelling range of a function and thought “ Would n’t it be enceinte it I could imitate this epitome to my Mac just by clicking it like this and then dragging it to my iPhoto library and … . ”
Whoops !
The image copied to my Mac .
And that sound any identification number of intimate warning equipment .
I ’m all for sharing iTunes libraries — it ’s a with child way to see about new music and gain some insight into the tastes of the person whose library you ’re listening to . But exposure are far more personal . They can be not only discover ( and yes , in the world of developer - less photograph processing , I entail this in every sense of the word ) but also embarrassing and , well , personal . I ’m happy to make slideshows of my kinsfolk for the take in pleasance of my close and dearest , but I ’d feel more than a minuscule uncomfortable learning that the overcoated creep in the coffee - shop corner was in possession of those same images .
Worse yet , some people expend iPhoto as a display creature — storing playground slide that may reveal information of a business nature that ’s well kept secret . Do you really want the existence to know of your plan to corner the bauxite market two weeks before the IPO hits ?
So here ’s a hint . Think double and then retrieve again before enabling the Share My Photos option in the Sharing tab of iPhoto ’s orientation . If you ’re decease to apportion , look at prepare a select record album or two of image you need to broadcast to the world , enabling the Share Selected Albums option , and choosing just those images signify for public pulmonary tuberculosis .
