On the donor Mac (1) the Firewall was set to "Set access for specific services and applications", (2) created a new album containing 10 photos divided between 2 named events and (3) confirmed sharing was enabled in iPhoto Preferences.

On the destination Mac I (1) confirmed "Look for shared photos" was checked in iPhoto Preferences, (2) selected the photos from the donor Mac's shared album, and dragged them into the Library (Photos) of the destination Mac.

I successfully merged all 10 donated photos into the destination Library. However, the Event grouping was lost, with the entire import being treated as a single Event. If event preservation is important to you, I suggest creating an album for each event on the donor Mac and importing each event individually to recreate the same groupings on the destination Mac.

I don't know why you ended up with "blanks", since this technique clearly does still work in principle using the current versions of iPhoto and OS X.

The MB is choc full of 'empty' events and 'blank' photos in the library. I don't understand it. Nothing interfered with the process, but the long and short of it is that it didn't work for me.

The MB is running 10.5.3 and the iMac is on 10.4.11, but I don't think that would matter.

I couldn't manage my photos as my collection was too large.

If you mean too large to move over the network, just break it up into albums and try accessing smaller chunks.

I could organize the photo collection with iphoto seven on my macbook pro, and then pop it onto the imacs shared folder.

I haven't tested it (lacking a MacBook Pro ;-)) but I see no reason why you couldn't do this. Create a test album in iPhoto 7, share it, and see if you can pull the photos across from iPhoto 6 on the iMac. I bet you can; could you report back?

i even managed to get into iphoto in my old imac ( iphoto v 6). I couldn't manage my photos as my collection was too large.

I've just got a new macbook with ilife 08 on. Im planning on networking the two and was wandering if I could organize the photo collection with iphoto seven on my macbook pro, and then pop it onto the imacs shared folder. Would I be able to open the albums with v 6 on the imac?

cheers

I too looked at iPhoto Library Manager but thought there must be a better way. I bought my partner a 20' iMac and wanted to copy photos from her user profile on my MBP to her new puter. The fact that this works between users as well is freakin awesome. My partner takes her photos and I take mine. We've been looking for the best way to share the bits we want between our user profiles/puters for e-mailing and posting without having to thumb drive them or otherwise. I'm also migrating from iPhoto 6 to iPhoto 7 so this is beautiful.

This is a great solution, many thanks.

"Show Package Contents" works for applications too, by-the-way.