The COMPLETE Synology Photo Guide
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- Опубліковано 16 чер 2024
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This is the complete guide to using Synology Photos to manage your photo library for both you and your family.
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TUTORIALS REFERENCED:
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TOC:
00:00 - Intro
04:02 - How to install Synology Photos
05:37 - Home vs Homes (what are they)
07:33 - Basic Photos Setup
08:46 - Setting up Shared Space (vs personal space)
10:12 - Setting up a family group and permissions
12:52 - Creating a new user for your family
13:30 - How personal space works
15:25 - How shared space works
17:02 - How to Share Photos with anyone
18:15 - How to share photos with specific users
22:42 - How to use Photo request
24:52 - How to use Filtering and metadata
26:55 - How to use Mobile backup
31:45 - Facial recognition (people album)
33:00 - Conclusion - Наука та технологія
Thanks Will! Another easy to understand and informative video. A few years ago I switched over from HP DL 350 SBS server to Synology NAS DS918+ and never regretted thanks to you. Your enthusiasm and great technical information has made the transition pretty easy. ... PS like the shirts.
This is an EXCELLENT summary of not only how to set things up but use cases which is super helpful. Inviting people to upload photos is a great feature. Well done!
I watched several of your Synology Videos and this is really great very professional and fun to watch content. Thank you very much, it made me setup my new ds923+ in no time. Should you decide to upload more Synology videos, I will happily watch them all!
Thank you Will for this easy to understand/follow video! All your knowledge and work put into these videos are a tremendous help!!
I have so many questions: 1) How is facial recognition saved to a photo? In a separate database referencing the photo? Or is it written to the XF meta-data of the photo? 2) Can Synology Photos identify dups and suggest they be merged or the duplicates deleted? I'd be bringing in photos from icloud, google and amazon and there will be duplicates 3) Can you filter view the web view and the phone app by person, place or year and/or month? 4) I'd be telling family they can view or download photos but I also want them to be able to add photos, but I want to make sure they can't delete them - Does View and Download cover these two aspects? 5) Can you separate the photos from other areas of the NAS via volumes? For example: I want one volume for Document Management and one for vm's and containers for apps I work with and one for photos. 6) Can I backup the NAS to the cloud? Like P-Cloud? 6) If you don't feel that Synology Photos should not be your primary photo storage then what do you recommend?
This is SOO incredibly helpful!! I was feeling a little overwhelmed and worried I’d set things up incorrectly. You broke this down so well. I’ll definitely be looking at your other videos as well. Thank you!
You're amazing for taking the time to make these videos. Thank you very much!!!
My favourite UA-camr. Seriously, nobody covers any topic as well as you do with NAS topics.
Thanks man!
Thanks Will, the only video on youtube that explains the Home and homes folder tipic, which is pretty confuse :)
I'm a digital art photographer and only shoot RAW files. l've listened to three of SpaceRex's well done videos and have found them helpful as I was lost in how to set up a DS223 Snyology. I purchased Snyology mainly to add it as another backup system and to be able to access my photos off site. Now that I've finally learned what Snyology is I'm not sure it's the system I need as a backup to protect my files. I had no idea how complicated this system was but will give it a go since I've already purchased it and it's set for months on my desk because I didn't know how to set it up. Thanks!! for your well done videos.
The 223 is backup if you use 2 drives. The RAID functions as the backup. RAID has 2 drive that are a copy or of each other. That is if you lose 1 drive your other drive still has a copy of the same file that was lost on the dead drive. You never have to worry about backups, and that mess. Buy like 2 4 TB drives and go that route. Learn about raid for the 223. Enjoy
@@alfloer9461 A Synology NAS isn't considered a backup by itself because it's mainly a storage device, the RAID drives provides redudancy in one type of media, but it's not to be confused with a backup. True backups need to be stored separately. If your NAS fails, gets corrupted, or is damaged, you could lose all your data. Always follow the 3-2-1 backup rule: 3 copies of your data, on 2 different media, with 1 copy offsite.
bro you are a legend. i have subscribed and have to watch lots of video content from you to learn about my new acquired Synology DS223J device
Great tutorial! Super helpful! Thanks for making this.
Thanks Will! A tip to other viewers about 15:01 and that uses folder view like me. If you want to automatically create folders by year/month after importing, use timeline view, not folder. Using folder view, photos will be uploaded to that "specified" folder, i.e the open folder.
Hi Marco, so if I migrate photos using the file explorer (not the photo app) and then I switch to my timline view the year/month folder structure will be created automatically?
Hi. If you migrate using file explorer, the photos app will maintain your folder structure and you can see that using the (folder view) to navigate, the same way you do in file explorer. Then, switching to (timeline view) the photos will be arranged by date, giving you a vertical bar to scroll between years and months, BUT preserving your folder structure.
Thank you very much for this, after I migrated from Photo Station, I was not really using Photos correctly. It was eye opening
I'm easily confused but your tutorial do make it very easy. Thanks again!
Thank you for explaining this app, it's more clear now how it works and how to set it up.
Great!! This is the exact video I needed
Thanks for de vid, helps me in the first steps in syn. photos. Thx
A fantastic guide. Thank you 😊
Thanks for the video! I've been a google photos person for a while and have been trying out synology photos for a few weeks now. One of the main things I miss though is the ability to search for items that are in the photos, like "outside" to find photos I took outside, or "food" or dialing it in with "steak".
yeah me too!
Synology drive and photos make their nas worth it
Thank you for this video. After 15 years of doing photography using the "drawer full of old portable external drives", I finally made the switch to a NAS and started moving my collection over. The auto face recognition, auto location tagging, and conditional albums are amazing! I've spent the last few weekends sorting and tagging.
great video, GREAT channel. amazing to learn so much before buying my NAS thanks
Thanks for this it really helped!
Just bought a refurbishe DS1517+ and was surprised that you had one in operation at least one year ago. Very informative video that I also shared with my wife since she has 95GB of video and photo's on her Iphone that she needs to sort through somehow.
Thanks, I attempted to do this by my self and it was imposible, but this video made it easy, sometimes Synology makes things extremely complicated
Good informative video. Do you know if this also handles videos and backup of videos? Or is it just for photos?
Awesome video Will, thanks. However, I don't actually understand the argument about not making a NAS or, in this case, the photo app a primary source for photos. What should be the primary source then? A phone?I thought that people buy NASes to actually use them as a very reliable place for data. So, are you suggesting that we keep all the photos on both the phone and the NAS? I guess not everyone buys phones with, let's say, 512GB storage. To be clear, I understand that we should keep the most important files/photos in multiple places if we want to be really sure that we won't lose them.
Because we use Synology Photos primarily as a repository rather than an application for searching and sharing, I configured it quite differently. Namely, I did not enable Home Services but instead created a subfolder for each user (just four) within the Photos shared folder. I then set access permissions and ownership of each subfolder, so each user only sees their own. Granted this is rather simplistic, but it works well for our situation.
Again, you have created a very informative video packed with lots of good information. Thank you.
Hi, how did you do it? I’ve been trying to use synology photos for the same purpose but at the moment I open the app, it asks to enable home services.
@@Marcel.Miranda I have never had it prompt me except for when I initially installed it. Perhaps you could try uninstalling and then reinstalling the application (though I am not sure if that would fix your issue). If you do succeed, set the ownership of each sub-folder to the name of the intended user and that will restrict the access to that person alone (though admins will still have access). Hope that works for you.
It was talked about “more powerful” devices for facial recognition. Which Nas devices are best for facial recognition? Thank for everything! Love your videos!
Just in time for my new camera setup and storage!
Hello! I am VERY new to all this, and am considering putting in a NAS for home use.... then you started talking about this photos.... MUCH of what would be put on the NAS is all my photos (JPG, RAW, PDF, et). Would I do the photos separately from the total NAS System set-up? or is this able to "mine" the photos out of the initial data upload in doing the total system "back-up/Recovery" stuff? (I hope this question makes sense....).
Excellent guide!
Love your videos, they are'll amazing.
Thank you for your brilliant job.
I have a question
How can I optimize storage on iPhone by uploading photo to Synology, and have a lighter version of the photo on my iPhone?
Had a couple of questions.
I appreciate the reply of anyone that knows about these things
(I’m completely new btw)
1. is there an ARCHIVE feature ?
2. Would you recommend making another user account for my business or is there a way to have different libraries. ( I’m not referring to separating by albums. I’m talking about; is there a way to have ONE USER but with multiple different libraries?)
3. Any info on security ? or does it just depend on how you encrypted your drives.
THANK YOU !!
Thanks for this! Does this work for videos also?
Hey Will! Thank you! I recently got an 1821+ and its going great. Next step is getting everything backed up! Your videos have made this process actually possible for me!
I would love to see a video about sharing videos to clients, as I am a videographer. The main issue I'm running into is when clients open share links on mobile browsers with a cellular connection, videos load incredibly slow and sometimes never do. If there was a way to auto-transcode lower quality renders for viewing, similar to dropbox, would be so cool!
Similar issue- we backup photos to Synology, but its a far slower load time than iCloud. Are there tricks to setting up the connection so it goes direct to the NAS over wifi versus up to the quickconnect server and back? Does it make any difference? Thanks
You have to obtain public ip from your isp then create a domain through synology settings. You then obtain certificate through lets encrypt - also through synology settings. Then you have to setup port forwarding from router to your synology. Easiest and not so secure way is through upnp which u have to enable on your router. Then you let synology setup ports. Then you go into router, look for port forwarding table, do a printscreen. Disable upnp, the table should be empty again. Fill fields from your printscreen. Basically use only these ports which corresponds to the specific funcionality which u want to have enabled. Like only port 5001 for synology photos. Then poke around with another pc connected to different network (like hotspot on your phone) whether it connects to your link from the new domain which you have just configured.
As for auto transcoding i dont think that's possible by default synology apps. But you can use opensource ffmpeg to transcode videos to lower bitrate with new name then share it with clients online.
i too need this, I currently use Vimeo but worth knowing if it can be done this way
Thank you for a great guide! Off topic question - what is the iPhone size? Is that the normal version, or the mini version?
Thanks for the helpful vids! One potentially big gotcha to be aware of when getting started - which frankly makes NO sense to me: the handy, automatic, date-based foldering that happens under the system-generated /photo/PhotoLibrary shared space ONLY works if you drag and drop/upload while in the Timeline View. If you happen to be in the Folder View at the time of upload, it dumps your uploads into the currently-displayed folder, which if you're just getting started, is the root-level All Photos folder. Worse yet, it ditches any sub-folders that might be part of the upload, lumping everything together in one big pile. The software developer in me understands the logic, but it should absolutely have a warning/confirmation when viewing that top-level folder that uploads dropped here will be unsorted when the dust settles.
Great video as always. In your intro you summed it up correctly: It's great for family and amateur use. Synology promotes it to this day as an app for professionals (of which I am one) and it isn't. For pro photographers it is unfortunately more or less useless. Just one very obvious example: Only square thumbnails in folder view. Ever looked at hundreds of images of people with the heads cut off...?
Like many others I have been in touch many times with Synology but to this day nothing has been done and like others I keep running DSM 6 in a virtual machine to be able to use the old PhotoStation for client interaction. Such a shame as under the hood Photos is such a powerful application but Synology development has moved on and nothing has improved in years.
After viewing this video I'm thinking it won't work for me as a digital art photographer who shows RAW files and just wasted money on something complicated that I won't find useful.
Thanks for the video Will, well explained and really useful. I'm having an issue though; when importing old photos & videos (like 6-7 years old), some of the video's won't play and I'm getting the error: "File cannot be displayed due to a conversion failure". The strange thing is, the format is I believe compatible (like .MOV or .MTS files) and this does not happen for all video's. I tried re-indexing, but this didn't help. Do you have any idea what this could be? Thanks!
Will, great video, extremely useful. Thank you so much. Once I share a photo/video from my personal space to the shared space, does it create another copy of the same photo/video, or is it just a shortcut to the original file?
And is there an option to back up family phones staight to shared folder so all family photos are all in 1 place?
No. Ir moves the photo, so you have to remember which one you put it in or search in two different places for it. Dumbest thing ever.
Thanks Will. Always a great tutorial! Quick question on Synology Photos... I'm looking at migrating a heap of old photos on some external HDD's into my new DS923+.. I'm keen to be able to use the Synology Photos display/sharing functions.. What is the best/easier way to copy across 2tb of images... Directly into photos via mapped drive? I've tried a test however when copying direct into the mapped 'photos' drive, they are visible in file manager however I can't see them in the Synology Photos App! Thanks in advance
This and your video to tie lightroom into my nas has saved me from a right mess. So i cant thank you enough.
one question i do have tho is if i have all my files organised for lightroom in my photography folder, is there a way to set the folder to be veiwed in synology photos without dublicating them into the photo folder? thus taking up more space for no reason?
Great stuff, cheers!
Thanks for the explanation, one question: does the software checks for "similar" photos? Like, when you have small,children and we are trying to get 1 photo but end up doing like 10 ... does the SW help there in choosing the one we want to keep and delete the ones we don't? Thanks.
I am so going to get one of these.
Really nice video thanks. I use a folder structure on my synology. Can I just link to this ? Is the upload creating a copy of my already backed up files ? Thanks
Will, great video. The only complaint I have is with personal space and albums. I think there should be an indicator in personal space to show which photos are in albums. Otherwise, you'll be flipping back and forth to see if you missed some. Also, the option to hide photos in personal space that are in albums.
If it helps, you can add the same photos to the same album again - it will not duplicate them. I always re-add all photos from an event to make sure I haven't missed any.
I wish I could create a conditioned album, but I would accept your indicator idea as well 😅
Thanks for mentioning. I was wondering if they had a hide feature. Also, any idea on photo editing inside the NAS?
@@kerrin6633 Rex has a video on using photoshop with the synology!
@@cyberwasp461 thanks so much!!
Great tutorial ! Thanks.
Juste a question, what about data migration beetween 2 NAS if I want to copy configuration (albums and other specific data) to another synology NAS ?
Hey Will, your videos are great. Couple questions. Once you add a user. What is that users process to get to my NAS from their phone or computer, step by step. Do they sign in from the Synology photo app? If they are on their computer how do they navigate to get there? #2 can they share photos with someone who is not a user on my NAS? #3 what about video files? Any considerations? If my son shoots video and wants to get me that footage, can he go into the Synology photo app and upload it and send it to me?
Thanks. Really enjoy your style and no nonsense video presentations! You have a very sincere and humble persona. It’s actually a pleasure to listen to you speak. Big fan! My wife too!
Grazie! Questo è proprio un ottimo video. Faccio molta fatica perchè non conosco l'inglese però l'hai fatto talmente bene che riguardandolo più volte arrivo a capire tutto. Grazie complimenti.
Ho tantissime foto fatte negli anni, ho vari backup sopratutto di imac che hanno creato un po di confusione nel tempo sopratutto con whatsapp. Vorrei fare pulizia trovando e cancellando anche i duplicati con nome diverso o con estensione diversa, Potresti consigliarmi qualcosa? In ogni caso grazie. ciao
Thanks for full comprehensive coverage,
just one question regarding phone backup via Photos - is it possible to somehow sync deleted photos?
I mean, if I delete a photo on iPhone, it automatically goes to 30-day trash, but such change isn't reflected in Photos,
and similarly if I delete a photo in Photos on Synology, it remains in phone and gets synced back onto Synology right?
cheers
Hiya Will, thanks for all your useful videos for a newbie. Just one quick question, all my photos are on one NAS (DS1522+) I want to be able to have this duplicated on another local NAS (DS220+). I used to be able to do this with drive sync but it doesn't seem to work with DSM 7.2 ? I used to be able to add or delete on any of the NAS and it would instantly update the other .
Great video as always. I’m wondering if you could make a video about having one HD in a Synology just for backup. So this hd should be ALWAYS sleeping. Just waking up when it would be backup time. Let’s say, once a week. If this is possible, I think I will buy another HD just for backup.
Hi Will very informative video, is there any way to add audio to slide show
Great video! Helped me get started correctly using Photos. One thing I am trying to do and I don't know if you can or not, I was to create a conditional album that uses both a person from the People and a tag. The facial recognition misses about half the faces because they are turned or their face isn't showing. I would like to tag and add them to the album. I've tried setting two condition, people and tag, and the album comes up empty. Is it possible?
Thanks for the great video! One more question; I’m using my Mac to store the originals of my iPhone photos app on the harddrive from my Mac. Can I move the location of the file used by iPhone photoshop app to store the photos on the NAS drive as my Mac as not sufficient diskspace left? Does this work and is it a good idea to do so?
This is a great video. I wished I had watched a video like this when I first entered the world of Synology Photos.
Two comments I'd like to share with everyone is that:
1) Once you start modifying the metadata using Synology Photos, such as adding/modifying a description, it will work fine for as long as your DSM works and you stick with it. If you like using the DSM to modify the description, as an example, the file itself won't be updated to include the modified description (the image supports the update but Synology won't!). If you save this image or share it in an email or make a copy for someone else to add to their library, the image and metadata shared will be the same image at time of uploading to your NAS. Synology does not provide a means to fully export your photos (including metadata). I want people to bring this up with them. They are hijacking our precious memories. In addition, unless your get your setting correct using Hyperbackup, there is no other means of backing up/ restoring your photos with all the changes you made in the fields you've modified.
2) It is difficult to work with shared photos. Unless you choose to fully share your photos (full privileges), then the experience is very much affected as many, many options are removed.
Hello Will,
How can i share files from my mobile backup in my "personal space" with the folder i created on my "Shared space" under all photos ? Do i have to copy them there, loosing space on my disk? better to move them ? what should i do ? Thank you !!
Thank you for the video! Can you please advise how I can transfer all my pictures from a very old synology nas DS207+ with older DSM to my new synology nas DS415+
Great video, as usual! I currently have all my photos stored in the Synology NAS as a share folder "PHOTOS" (along with "MOVIES", "DOCUMENTS", and "MUSIC"). I've used a hodge/podge of different folder names to store both jpeg and RAW files. Before I start moving my photos to the new "photo" folder, is there a recommended file name convention that I should be using with Synology Photos? If you've done a video on this topic, please point me in the right direction!
Nope! No naming convention. Photos just reads whatever images are in any folder/subfolder in the 'photo' folder.
Only thing I would recommend is doing have 5000+ images in a single folder as SMB can get slowed down anytime you have that many files in a folder
Will, thanks for posting such great content all the time. I'm a newbie with Synology NAS and I'd love if you could help me with a question that I have. What's the best way to keep a SSD (constantly plugged to my Mac) being backed up (weekly) to my NAS? I'm currently using Synology Drive Client to perform the task every week but I was wondering if there's a better/more reliable method to use. Thank you so much.
Synology drive backup
I moved to a custom unraid build for my primary server, but I like synology photos so much that I still run that off my synology.
First off, fantastic video... I watched the whole thing ( and I typically skip through). Question for you please.... On my computer, I have stored years of photos from my DSLR on there. For now I have manually been uploading folders to my home/photos/computer_backup for the past few years. After watching your video, I want to accomplish two things... 1) share all my computers by placing into the shared space (or share home folder) and 2) find a clean way to push my photos from my computer to the shared folder, and keep track of the updates. I was going to try Synology drive, but it seems like it only wants to interact with your home/drive folder and nothing outside of that, like the newly created photo shared space. Guidance please.
Great video! Thanks!
A problem i don't know how to solve:
I want yo use a shared album to show photos that are on several family members personal space without them having to copy or moving the photos to another place. Because i don't want duplicates between the personal and shared space.
I want to keep the photos on the original personal space for each user, but be able to create one shared album with all photos for example a trip.
Is there a simple workflow for the users to do this on their phones in Synology Photos?
Thanks for a great video. Do you have any thoughts on how to fix an iphone12 when Synology Photo app says "Sign In. The operation could not be completed. (SynoRelayErrorDomain error -1011.)? Thanks.
Thanks Will! Just one question. How to create album like gallery with cover on each folder (people, nature, sunsets, ... ) and share it with outside DSM users by one link? If it impossible, then how to create view only user and restrict him to manage photos (upload to private directory )?
Great video. I do have one question regarding an issue I’m having. When enabling mobile phone backup on my iPhone, it begins uploading my 2,000-some photos and videos, but gets stuck on a long (1.5-hour 4K) video. I recognize it will take a while, but I left it for hours on end and it never got past it.
Are there often issues with backing up videos through the mobile app or might it just be because the file is quite big?
Did you ever get the answer to your question?
Thank you Will.. This was helpful. I have a couple of questions for you.. 1st question. I mistakenly "cleared" space on my phone and found it deleted my icloud photos.. I did it because I got a message that said I had insufficient space to complete the backup. Still getting that message by the way. But I do like keeping icloud photos as well and am not sure how to move my photos back to icloud. 2nd question. I noticed for some reason, that I have duplicates on synology photos.. how do I delete the duplicates? Thank you again for all of your good advice.
Excellent video Will. I have you to thank for getting, setting up and running my Synology NAS. Well done sir, thank you from London UK.
Quick question - I was going to use synology as a primary photo backup (then back up to C2 or back blaze), but you mention you wouldn’t use synology as a primary. What do you recommend for a primary?
Great video and tutorial, thanks! Slightly off topic, is there an app or a way to similarly backup ones iphone to the NAS in a smiliar way apple icloud does? Would love to stop using other peoples clouds and just use my own. Thanks.
can one have folder and subfolder in photo? I want to have a personal space and then another one for my 2 children so their photo are separated or having other folds where I put photo of the same subject or object I put together? thanks
Hi Will, thanks for this. Can you share images but not allow downloads? recently set up my 1821 so just getting use to all this set up.
Hi i have a question:
is there an option how to automatically create folder/subfolder/year/month/day same as when you do photos backup (example:\Photos\MobileBackup\S21 Ultra\DCIM\Camera\2023\3 and all existing pictures would be alocated into specificed folder.
At the moment I have like 10folders, where I have multiple pictures stored from different sources (phone, camera, 2nd phone, etc) and I would like to have this more structured the way photos backup does it, but I would not like to do this manually as I have over 200k pictures, which I gathered over the course of last couple of years.
I would wish that all of those 10 existing folders are combined into a single folder based on creation date, I would than take care of duplicates with storage analyzer (if anything else is better I would like to hear your suggestions).
I hope my question makes sense, looking forward to your reply.
Hey Will, what is the most complete method for backing up synology ? Is it Active backup for business? Basically I’m looking for a backup path that will retain all settings and metadata , like the synology photos albums and shares and everything , thanks
ABB is good for backing up individual PCs. Hyper Backup to either a cloud provider or another NAS is the best option to backup an entire Synology NAS. Will has great vids on how to use that
thanks for the good video, I followed the insturctions created a shared album, and set other sharer as provider, however she still can only view and download, but not able to remove photos, what have I done wrong?
2 questions: How much data can one upload/download remotely? Do you have to pay a subscription to upload/download your data remotely? I travel and I want to substitute a NAS for my gdrive.
Thanks very much Will.
Do you please know a way to add a watermark temporarily to a photo and share it please?
Is there an easy way to add e-commerce if we want to sell some of our photos please?
Thank you very much for your time.
Didier
Lightroom or another editor
Hi Will, cant find the info how to work with folders (not albums). Dont want to dump all photos just in one place. Do you have content about this or basic description?
Very informative! Thanks so much! I’m in the process of just upgrading to DSM 7 and moving my folders around to maximize the Photos app and face recognition. I think I have a better understanding of Shared spaces too. Appreciate it!
very helpful
i would like to ask a question: do we need the DS file and Drive to have photos saved from my mobile? what's their use?
Thank you for the tutorial! Great video! If I upload everything from google photos to Synology photos, the dates will be there too? Thank you again.
So I am not sure about this. I have seen where google was stripping off the exif data and putting it a separate file. So I can’t be sure.
If the dates are there when you open them in your computer, the NAS will see them
@@SpaceRexWill Thank you.
Great video. However, my family member does not have the ability to share her photos. On the sharing tab the only option showing is “Shared with Me”. There is no “Shared with Others” or “Photo Request.”
I’m fairly confident that I have set things up correctly. Is there some other step I am missing?
Will, after importing photos (+25,000), a lot of them are not oriented properly and for most of them I need to rotate 3 times manually to get the photo upright. I am 68 years old and I'd like to finish doing that while I am still alive. Any suggestions? Otherwise, many thanks for all your videos which helped me going from a DS218 to a DS923+ and all the great hints and tutorials to help me understand the system. Cheers, Bobby
Should I activate snapshots for the shared photos folder?
I've have old smart tv and can use only DLNA feature to watch photos and videos on it, there is any chance to watch kida photos only. Can photos share kids album as DLNA share?
Hi will- is there a way to add photos manually to "people" facial recognition groups? For example, all photos of a person grouped in those folders, even if it's not a photo that synology regoginzed a face in. Like a photo of that person doing something etc..?
Did you find a solution to this?
Hi Will. Your videos are great tools. I've learned so much. Question. I use my NAS as the single source to store all pictures and videos. Just don't have room on my computer to store decades of photos and videos. Is there a way to backup my NAS so I don't lose any images or should I instead use a cloud base server to store all images and videos? Thanks
If you want to backup your NAS. I suggest you find someone with another Nas that will essentially mirror your NAS. Like an “offsite backup” and if you trust the cloud. Then cloud can possibly be another route as well. I personally like to stay away from cloud. But to each, their own prerogative.
@@userricksanchez Thank YOU!
When you copy photos to your personal space, are you actually copying the data (so you now have 2 identical images), or is it looking at a link that points to the folder where it actually lives?
When moving photos from Personal Space (auto backup from my mobile) to Shared Space (so entire family can see them) I have to select a folder (year/month) as the destination. This is quite manual in nature while initial upload to personal space auto recognizes the date time stamp and automatically chooses the correct folder to send the file. Is this the most efficient way to do this or should I utilize shared albums instead?
I haven't tried uploading my album from my iphone to the NAS yet, I am wondering if I uploaded the photo, and then edit the photo on my phone, would the edited one be synced to NAS after? Or would it create duplicate? Also if I delete the one on the phone, would the one on NAS be deleted too? Because I do like to clean up my phone's photos after a week or so to get rid of the garbage pics...
Is it possible to share an album with specific people via their Google Account? (is this called SSO? "Sign in with Google")
Does Synology photos allow this?
Or does everyone that you want to share specifically to need to create a user account on your NAS?
Just setting up my RS822+ from scratch. Couple of differences. When I installed Synology Photos, it did not prompt me to enabled user home services. I followed the link shown in your video to manually enable it from User Groups->Advanced. Second difference is that shared space was already enabled for me. Third difference is none of the user folders including the currently logged in home folder show demo and photo folders. I tried to "Disable Shared Space" so that I could re-enable it and see if that did the trick but it jus complains that at least one space to function. Trying to work through it.
Hi Will, am a new member of your community, and am really enjoying your videos and commentary. I have a DS412+ running 4x8TB HDs with SHR and am considering upgrading the NAS to a new model. ** Have you reviewed how Synology Apps (company or 3rd party apps) can back-up iPhones (like iCloud) in a similar fashion ? As Synology has a great way to back-up Macs compatible with Time Machine, I am surprised not to have come across such solution, etc. I would like to keep iCloud storage at 5GB and keep all my personal and family shared files away from Cloud services.
I do not know of any way to backup the rest of the phone to anything but iCloud
If you have a Synology, then I would suggest using the Synology apps on your phone like Photos and Synology Drive. That way any data on your phone is already on the NAS. Then just do an occasional iPhone backup using iTunes and copy the backup to the NAS.
This may be a stupid question but I have to ask it. I have installed Synology photo on my phone. It is asking for my Quick connect ID which I gave it then it wants my account and password. I have tried all the account and passwords I have in my Synology setup with no luck??
Correction. I think I have got it working.
Your videos were a great help in getting my Synology DS723+ setup. Thank you.
i switched to completely use synology photo, it works for me, yes ofc. i need a internet connection to view old photos, but usuually i take a photo, edit it with the default app if i want to change something, and then let it auto upload and delete later on, thats the only way for me to prevent buying a 256gb iphone next time.
i wish there was an option like, delete photos older than x, or upload only videos (because these are the real space killers for me)
That would be really useful!