Best video on setting up photo sharing. Up until now I was banging my head against the wall (figuratively) trying to get external users to see the shared files. This pushed me over the top and I got everything working.
Hi John, thanks for watching! I really appreciate your comments. Glad you found the video to be helpful. Enjoy Synology Photos. I’m still using it on a full time basis. Have a great day!
To be able to turn on the shared space folder at time 3:53' you need to be logged in with an administrator account. If you are logged in as a regular user, the shared space tab is missing in the settings.
Finally found someone who can explain this process clearly. There are others who seem to mumble their way through attempting to help, but you seem to be someone who understands training others well. Thanks, even though I am late coming to this video and I generally found out all I needed previously, you still clarified what "I thought" was correct.🙂 An aside question - do you know if Synology is ever going to allow remote (non-administrative) users to search photos? They seem to keep promising, but never follow through as of June 2023.
Thank you! I appreciate your kind words. Unfortunately, I don't have any extra insight to what Synology is doing. Wish I had a better answer for you. Thanks again for watching. Have a great day.
Hi at time line 8:35 you describe how to select shared folder and options pop up in lower right to set permission. My Folder does not have the tick box when I hover over album to bring up any "options" in lower right? What am I doing wrong?
My question is I am setting up my nas for the first time and have two many photos on my Mac in iPhoto. I mend to off load photos as my internal hard on my computer is almost full. So do I move them from iPhoto to synology photos or just build file folders and store them there?
Hello Matt! Thanks for watching. This is really a personal preference. If you build file folders and store them on the NAS you’re not really gaining anything but freeing up capacity on your iPhone. If you use Synology Photos you can still access the photos from your mobile device, create albums, smart albums, face recognition etc. Synology Photos also provides all the meta data for each photo, for example, lens info, aperture, ISO etc. Synology Photos is not an editing software, so you can’t crop and touch up like you can on the iPhone Photos app. If I were being faced with this decision, personally would opt for Synology Photos for all of the reasons mentioned above. But it is still your decision. Have a great day.
@@QuikTechSolutions Thanks for the reply. I use the photos on my Mac for my TH-cam channel building videos. After wards my iPhotos is just for storming the pics to archive them. I rarely go back to them.
I want to share my full mobile upload folder with my Wife, But it wont add future added picture to the shared folder.... Why ? This step i did. 06:50. Any other way?
Thanks for watching. Photos is not going to auto sync newly added photos from your personal space to your shared space, at least not that I know of. You can set the backup destination in your Photos mobile app to upload to the Shared Space instead of the Personal Space. Then your wife should see all the newly added photos. Not sure if doing this out weights the downside to doing this. Have a great day.
Great video. I'd already spent much too long trying to understand why the user group settings for photos weren't affecting the shared photo access. So instead, I now see that this is delegated to the app itself. What I am looking for is a family share folder so that everyone can upload from their phones and to have these photos and videos ready to share as a family. Would I have to move all the existing 25 years of photos to the share folder for this? How can each person upload their photos to the group and share them automatically?
I would create a user on the NAS called “Family.” Each member of the fam can be signed into the mobile app with the “Family” user credentials, then point the backup to the “Shared Space” instead of the default. In theory, this should work.
Hey, I have 50k photos and the face recognition software found many strangers. How can I remove or lose or ignore the stranger faces? Or should I just merge all strangers as a single stranger label?
Thanks a lot for that - I tried another option at the top of the PC Synology Photos page (bangf up to date) which has a slightly different link - on 4G+ neither I nor a friend could actually get photos - so I copied your advise - perfect for simple photos to someone without an account... video also and I'm sure an album will be just as easy - note however that I tried a 4K video and my upload clearly can't keep up as it stuttered (phone 4g download speedtest 98Mbps - and I'm sure my PC and hence my NAS will upload at 12Mbps on a bad day (both 4G+, different accounts) - I'm sure I gave view+downlooad permission - but not seeing download option on my Samsung S22 Ultra phone - just a play button - am I missing something? I'd love to progress this further.
Is there no way to enable multi users to simply backup their photos from their phones directly into a shared folder easily? Instead of having to choose photos from your library and copying them over to the shared space?
Thank you for great video! Just few questions. We have NAS in our company. I want to share company's pictures to all users. If I create album with all pictures in it, it builds big mess of thousands of them, so I decided to separate pictures by years , places and etc. and create albums for each. How can I share albums in one spaces by one link? How to share albums to domain users for view only, without ability to upload pictures, manage their accounts and other settings?
Thanks for watching! You asked, "How can I share albums in one spaces by one link?" To my knowledge this is not possible at this time. If it is possible, I haven't found a way. Each album has it's own unique share url.
I tried this and the link allows my friend to see the pictures, but they cannot upload. I chose the option to allow anyone with the link to be able to upload, but it never displays the plus sign to upload photos. Is there a fix for this?
Hi Bill, thanks for watching. Question for clarification purposes. Are you sharing the “Shared Space” with a user that has an account on the Synology, or are you just using the share link for a non-account holders?
Very informative, thanks. Have you tried the Photos Mobile app? It seems that the backup option only works when the app is open. You would think that it runs in the background and when your mobile device is on wifi it would upload the photos to your NAS.
Yes, I’ve used the mobile app from the start. The backup program is how I uploaded my phone’s photo gallery before I realized there is an Upload option under settings. I agree with you and am thinking it could be a limitation of iOS seeing as Apple is very closed about their architecture. Thanks again for watching and commenting. Please subscribe, share, and give the video a like 👍. Have a great day.
@@QuikTechSolutions Thanks for responding. I have moved from a WD MyCloud NAS to a Synology NAS. The WD MyCloud IOS app uploads in the background without needing to open the app. I hope Synology Photos Mobile adopts this as well.
Excellent! Thanks I am on 7 and no issues and all great. Question For people I have set up as users with an account, when they have photos in their own home photo folder, and they want to share them out, i’m assuming then they have to check assign delegate who can see and then go to their shared folder and add those people to the shared folder so they can have access to it? In your example then, I can’t set up Lisa‘s home photo folder and assign permissions on her folders or anybody else’s. They have to do that themselves correct?
Hello, how are you? Nice to see you’re still following the channel! The way I see it, that is correct. Each user is responsible for sharing photos from their own “Personal Space.” Have a great day!
Nice overview on how to share with Synology Photos. I need to share my entire library to non-Synology users at work but I need the them to have the ability to search the library, just sorting is not acceptable. As far as I can tell there is not a way to do this without setting up an account and then giving them management permissions something I will not do. How can I get a lot of people at work access with the ability to search for photos/folders easily?
I have tons of photos on my NAS simply copied from my PC. How to make Synology Photos see all those photos? So far the only photos my Synology Photo sees are the ones uploaded from my mobile phone app. Nothing else :(
Hi thanks for watching. Synology Photos looks for photos in the following location: home>Photos. So if you move the photos already on the NAS to this location, they will show up in Synology Photos. Have a great day!
Does this create a duplicate “copy” of the photo on the NAS? If so, it seems like a big waste of drive space. I have tens of thousands of photos from multiple decades. I would like my all my family members to be able to view all the photos on the NAS. Since facial recognition doesn’t work in the shared space, this has to be done in the personal space, then copied to the shared space. Once in the shared space, can the other users search for specific people, date, location, camera aperture, etc as can be done in the personal space?
Hi Tom, Thanks for tuning in. If you copy the photos to the shared space yes duplicates are made. However, you can choose to "move" photos from the personal space to the shared space. Yes, the images are searchable in shared space by other users "only" if their permission is changed from Entry to Management under Settings>Shared Space>Set Access Permissions. Otherwise, they can only sort photos. Hope this answers your questions.
@@QuikTechSolutions This is the answer I've been searching for quite some time already. That's actually the same logic as it was on Moments. File duplication sounds problematic for storing years of photos and videos. I understand that to avoid it, personal photos should be moved to shared space. But if a mobile device is synced yet another storage location is created for each one. It's confusing.
Hi Chris, I think you mean Synology Photos. Yes, you can definitely use Synology Photos for this use case. Is it better? Well, that’s truly a matter of personal opinion. I like it a lot, others not so much. Have a great day.
@@QuikTechSolutions I'm sure you know plex is great for storing TV and films, but they also have a photo part I've never used. I'll try plex pictures on nas first and see how well it works with different family access. If it's no good I'll use info you've given. Thanks very much getting back to me. Happy holidays mate
Hey Chris, I’ve not used Plex for photos, Mainly only for my movie library. I did play around with storing a small music library on Plex but gave up on that pretty quickly. Let me know what you think of Plex photos. Have a great day.
Did you find a trick to use something else then /home/pictures or the /pictures shared folders ? I would like to import all my pictures from the directory of my choice instead of having to move everything to a specific Synology static directory :) Thanks again Tony !!!
Sharing that way is only half working: Sharing on a folder level disables Timeline View and all Albums People, Location, Tags and more. I hope Synolgy will fix it one day.
Hey thanks for this.. very informative... However.. although I class myself as pretty good with IT... Synology has made this way way too complex !!!!.. Not having a go with you.. but wow... Too complex Synology !!!!!!!
Hello Craig & Sharon, no worries at all. Synology Photos isn't for everyone. Please understand when I share videos on something, I'm not suggesting that this is what should be done. I'm simply sharing information of my experiences with the hopes that it will help others make an informed decision either way. In your case, I have achieved this hope, as it helped you reach the decision that Synology Photos isn't the perfect fit for you. Thanks for watching and sharing feedback here in the community. Have a great day!
@@QuikTechSolutions No problems.. thanks for the reply.. after a week of playing with Photos I am getting it sorted... working ok now.. thanks to your videos !!
Hi Chris! Thanks for tuning in and commenting. Yes, it does seem complex at first but once you get used to it and understand it, it’s pretty straightforward. Please consider subscribing to the channel, share the video, and also give it a like. Have a great day!
@@QuikTechSolutions Hi, Yes.. very complex... not easy if you are sharing your photos with other people and family... I find that they get lost very quickly.. Synology needs to employ some programmers that understand User Friendly systems.
How about taking down a video thats 2 years out of date and only adds to the confusion? Or better still, do a new video that actually uses the current DSM software
I feel like you really have to reduce the overall security of your NAS to share links with others that don't have accounts, etc. - Because of my firewall, the links simply don't work. I'd like to share photos but I don't want to lower my security on my NAS in the process. I just copy the photos/videos and share them with other services instead in the cloud. I would like to see a video where using something like Tailscale, etc. might work to be able to share photo links without having to lower firewall security.
Best video on setting up photo sharing. Up until now I was banging my head against the wall (figuratively) trying to get external users to see the shared files. This pushed me over the top and I got everything working.
Hi John, thanks for watching! I really appreciate your comments. Glad you found the video to be helpful. Enjoy Synology Photos. I’m still using it on a full time basis. Have a great day!
We also made the switch and never looked back! Great video as always.
Thank you!
To be able to turn on the shared space folder at time 3:53' you need to be logged in with an administrator account. If you are logged in as a regular user, the shared space tab is missing in the settings.
Correct. Thx for watching & sharing.
Very clear explanations! I like your style of presentation.
Thank you for watching and commenting.
Finally found someone who can explain this process clearly. There are others who seem to mumble their way through attempting to help, but you seem to be someone who understands training others well. Thanks, even though I am late coming to this video and I generally found out all I needed previously, you still clarified what "I thought" was correct.🙂 An aside question - do you know if Synology is ever going to allow remote (non-administrative) users to search photos? They seem to keep promising, but never follow through as of June 2023.
Thank you! I appreciate your kind words. Unfortunately, I don't have any extra insight to what Synology is doing. Wish I had a better answer for you. Thanks again for watching. Have a great day.
Hi at time line 8:35 you describe how to select shared folder and options pop up in lower right to set permission. My Folder does not have the tick box when I hover over album to bring up any "options" in lower right? What am I doing wrong?
Hi Graeme Lee. Thanks for watching. Hard for me. Are you signed into Synology Photos as the owner of the photos and are you in the Shared Space?
My question is I am setting up my nas for the first time and have two many photos on my Mac in iPhoto. I mend to off load photos as my internal hard on my computer is almost full. So do I move them from iPhoto to synology photos or just build file folders and store them there?
Hello Matt! Thanks for watching. This is really a personal preference. If you build file folders and store them on the NAS you’re not really gaining anything but freeing up capacity on your iPhone. If you use Synology Photos you can still access the photos from your mobile device, create albums, smart albums, face recognition etc. Synology Photos also provides all the meta data for each photo, for example, lens info, aperture, ISO etc. Synology Photos is not an editing software, so you can’t crop and touch up like you can on the iPhone Photos app. If I were being faced with this decision, personally would opt for Synology Photos for all of the reasons mentioned above. But it is still your decision. Have a great day.
@@QuikTechSolutions Thanks for the reply. I use the photos on my Mac for my TH-cam channel building videos. After wards my iPhotos is just for storming the pics to archive them. I rarely go back to them.
Great explanation !!! Saludos de Mexico
Thanks for watching.
I want to share my full mobile upload folder with my Wife, But it wont add future added picture to the shared folder.... Why ? This step i did. 06:50. Any other way?
Thanks for watching. Photos is not going to auto sync newly added photos from your personal space to your shared space, at least not that I know of. You can set the backup destination in your Photos mobile app to upload to the Shared Space instead of the Personal Space. Then your wife should see all the newly added photos. Not sure if doing this out weights the downside to doing this. Have a great day.
Great video. I'd already spent much too long trying to understand why the user group settings for photos weren't affecting the shared photo access. So instead, I now see that this is delegated to the app itself.
What I am looking for is a family share folder so that everyone can upload from their phones and to have these photos and videos ready to share as a family. Would I have to move all the existing 25 years of photos to the share folder for this?
How can each person upload their photos to the group and share them automatically?
I would create a user on the NAS called “Family.” Each member of the fam can be signed into the mobile app with the “Family” user credentials, then point the backup to the “Shared Space” instead of the default. In theory, this should work.
Hey, I have 50k photos and the face recognition software found many strangers. How can I remove or lose or ignore the stranger faces? Or should I just merge all strangers as a single stranger label?
Thanks a lot for that - I tried another option at the top of the PC Synology Photos page (bangf up to date) which has a slightly different link - on 4G+ neither I nor a friend could actually get photos - so I copied your advise - perfect for simple photos to someone without an account... video also and I'm sure an album will be just as easy - note however that I tried a 4K video and my upload clearly can't keep up as it stuttered (phone 4g download speedtest 98Mbps - and I'm sure my PC and hence my NAS will upload at 12Mbps on a bad day (both 4G+, different accounts) - I'm sure I gave view+downlooad permission - but not seeing download option on my Samsung S22 Ultra phone - just a play button - am I missing something? I'd love to progress this further.
Sounds like you have it all covered.
Is there no way to enable multi users to simply backup their photos from their phones directly into a shared folder easily? Instead of having to choose photos from your library and copying them over to the shared space?
When setting up the backup task on the Photos mobile app, there is an option to choose Shared Space as the destination.
Thank you for great video! Just few questions. We have NAS in our company. I want to share company's pictures to all users. If I create album with all pictures in it, it builds big mess of thousands of them, so I decided to separate pictures by years , places and etc. and create albums for each. How can I share albums in one spaces by one link? How to share albums to domain users for view only, without ability to upload pictures, manage their accounts and other settings?
Thanks for watching! You asked, "How can I share albums in one spaces by one link?" To my knowledge this is not possible at this time. If it is possible, I haven't found a way. Each album has it's own unique share url.
Very usefull guide, Tony! Thanks indeed. Keep doing such an informative stuff.
Thank you Martin. Have a great day!
Very good explanation. Have you being able to set expiration date for the shared link in the mobile app? I can't see those options.
Thanks for watching and commenting. It is located under Sharing>Privacy Settings.
I tried this and the link allows my friend to see the pictures, but they cannot upload. I chose the option to allow anyone with the link to be able to upload, but it never displays the plus sign to upload photos. Is there a fix for this?
Hi Bill, thanks for watching. Question for clarification purposes. Are you sharing the “Shared Space” with a user that has an account on the Synology, or are you just using the share link for a non-account holders?
Upload is a different function...there is a create photo (or file) request link that you could use.
Very informative, thanks. Have you tried the Photos Mobile app? It seems that the backup option only works when the app is open. You would think that it runs in the background and when your mobile device is on wifi it would upload the photos to your NAS.
Yes, I’ve used the mobile app from the start. The backup program is how I uploaded my phone’s photo gallery before I realized there is an Upload option under settings. I agree with you and am thinking it could be a limitation of iOS seeing as Apple is very closed about their architecture. Thanks again for watching and commenting. Please subscribe, share, and give the video a like 👍. Have a great day.
@@QuikTechSolutions Thanks for responding. I have moved from a WD MyCloud NAS to a Synology NAS. The WD MyCloud IOS app uploads in the background without needing to open the app. I hope Synology Photos Mobile adopts this as well.
Thanks for sharing, good to know. Hopefully, they will move in that direction.
Excellent! Thanks
I am on 7 and no issues and all great.
Question
For people I have set up as users with an account, when they have photos in their own home photo folder, and they want to share them out, i’m assuming then they have to check assign delegate who can see and then go to their shared folder and add those people to the shared folder so they can have access to it?
In your example then, I can’t set up Lisa‘s home photo folder and assign permissions on her folders or anybody else’s. They have to do that themselves correct?
Hello, how are you? Nice to see you’re still following the channel! The way I see it, that is correct. Each user is responsible for sharing photos from their own “Personal Space.” Have a great day!
@@QuikTechSolutionsYup keeping up w your great help.
Thanks for the reply/answer.
Appreciated!!
Nice overview on how to share with Synology Photos. I need to share my entire library to non-Synology users at work but I need the them to have the ability to search the library, just sorting is not acceptable. As far as I can tell there is not a way to do this without setting up an account and then giving them management permissions something I will not do. How can I get a lot of people at work access with the ability to search for photos/folders easily?
I have tons of photos on my NAS simply copied from my PC. How to make Synology Photos see all those photos? So far the only photos my Synology Photo sees are the ones uploaded from my mobile phone app. Nothing else :(
Hi thanks for watching. Synology Photos looks for photos in the following location: home>Photos. So if you move the photos already on the NAS to this location, they will show up in Synology Photos. Have a great day!
Does this create a duplicate “copy” of the photo on the NAS? If so, it seems like a big waste of drive space. I have tens of thousands of photos from multiple decades. I would like my all my family members to be able to view all the photos on the NAS. Since facial recognition doesn’t work in the shared space, this has to be done in the personal space, then copied to the shared space. Once in the shared space, can the other users search for specific people, date, location, camera aperture, etc as can be done in the personal space?
Hi Tom, Thanks for tuning in. If you copy the photos to the shared space yes duplicates are made. However, you can choose to "move" photos from the personal space to the shared space. Yes, the images are searchable in shared space by other users "only" if their permission is changed from Entry to Management under Settings>Shared Space>Set Access Permissions. Otherwise, they can only sort photos. Hope this answers your questions.
@@QuikTechSolutions This is the answer I've been searching for quite some time already. That's actually the same logic as it was on Moments. File duplication sounds problematic for storing years of photos and videos. I understand that to avoid it, personal photos should be moved to shared space. But if a mobile device is synced yet another storage location is created for each one. It's confusing.
did copying that folder to the shared folder duplicate all of those images on your drives?
Yes. If you prefer not to duplicate the images, then just move them to the shared space instead of copy.
Thanks for that video , we don’t see that kind of video on Synology photos.
Thank Sylvain! Glad you found the video useful. Have a great day!
Is plex photos better for different user access? Some Pictures for family, and some Pictures for friend's?
Hi Chris, I think you mean Synology Photos. Yes, you can definitely use Synology Photos for this use case. Is it better? Well, that’s truly a matter of personal opinion. I like it a lot, others not so much. Have a great day.
@@QuikTechSolutions I'm sure you know plex is great for storing TV and films, but they also have a photo part I've never used. I'll try plex pictures on nas first and see how well it works with different family access. If it's no good I'll use info you've given. Thanks very much getting back to me. Happy holidays mate
Hey Chris, I’ve not used Plex for photos, Mainly only for my movie library. I did play around with storing a small music library on Plex but gave up on that pretty quickly. Let me know what you think of Plex photos. Have a great day.
Very good video Tony . You got my 'Like' :)
Thanks David. I appreciate it!
@@QuikTechSolutions No problem at all - Well deserved :)
Did you find a trick to use something else then /home/pictures or the /pictures shared folders ? I would like to import all my pictures from the directory of my choice instead of having to move everything to a specific Synology static directory :) Thanks again Tony !!!
No, I’m using Synology’s default folder structure. You can drag & drop your existing file structure into the default photos folder.
Sharing that way is only half working: Sharing on a folder level disables Timeline View and all Albums People, Location, Tags and more. I hope Synolgy will fix it one day.
Super! Cheers, mate.
Thank you Kris! Glad you liked the video. Please subscribe, share, and give the video a like 👍. Have a great day!
Hey thanks for this.. very informative... However.. although I class myself as pretty good with IT... Synology has made this way way too complex !!!!.. Not having a go with you.. but wow... Too complex Synology !!!!!!!
Hello Craig & Sharon, no worries at all. Synology Photos isn't for everyone. Please understand when I share videos on something, I'm not suggesting that this is what should be done. I'm simply sharing information of my experiences with the hopes that it will help others make an informed decision either way. In your case, I have achieved this hope, as it helped you reach the decision that Synology Photos isn't the perfect fit for you. Thanks for watching and sharing feedback here in the community. Have a great day!
@@QuikTechSolutions No problems.. thanks for the reply.. after a week of playing with Photos I am getting it sorted... working ok now.. thanks to your videos !!
This is really complex
Hi Chris! Thanks for tuning in and commenting. Yes, it does seem complex at first but once you get used to it and understand it, it’s pretty straightforward. Please consider subscribing to the channel, share the video, and also give it a like. Have a great day!
@@QuikTechSolutions Hi, Yes.. very complex... not easy if you are sharing your photos with other people and family... I find that they get lost very quickly.. Synology needs to employ some programmers that understand User Friendly systems.
How about taking down a video thats 2 years out of date and only adds to the confusion? Or better still, do a new video that actually uses the current DSM software
Making an updated video is an option. All videos go out of date at dome point.
I feel like you really have to reduce the overall security of your NAS to share links with others that don't have accounts, etc. - Because of my firewall, the links simply don't work. I'd like to share photos but I don't want to lower my security on my NAS in the process. I just copy the photos/videos and share them with other services instead in the cloud. I would like to see a video where using something like Tailscale, etc. might work to be able to share photo links without having to lower firewall security.