I Switched To Synology Photos

[@kittysreview9055]

You, sir, are a hero. Just purchased a synology because of this video. Thank you! 🥳

[@QuikTechSolutions]

Hello Kitty’s Review! Thanks for commenting. I’m glad you liked the video and purchased a Synology. What model did you buy? Please subscribe, share, and give the video a like 👍. Have a great day!

[@kittysreview9055]

@@QuikTechSolutions the ds218 and I did subscribe 😊. Have a wonderful day as well!

[@andy56obr]

Very clear video. I’ve just upgraded my Synology NAS to latest DSM7 and found this very useful to get me started in Photos.

[@QuikTechSolutions]

Hi andyrob! Thanks for watching. Glad you found the info helpful. I’ve been using Synology Photos for several months now. It is definitely a solid program. I do however miss the basic editing tools that are built-in to the iPhone Photos app. None the less, like I said in the video, Synology Photos seems to be geared toward photo management rather than photo editing. Have a great day!

[@dmitry6472]

Switched to Synology Photos as well. Also added Glacier backup to my AWS account, just to be safe. What I'm really looking forward is additional features to help manage collection, suggestions to delete blurred, similar images. Add others suggestions other clouds have.

[@Practical-IT]

Great video, as usual. I've only scratched the surface of Synology Photos since the upgrade to DSM7, but it is impressive.

[@QuikTechSolutions]

Hey Jeremy, thanks for watching. The more I’m using Synology Photos the more I’m enjoying it.

[@ews4271]

I appreciate your videos very much. I need some help to learn the best way to transfer 20+ years of photos from an iMac hard drive to Synology Photos. In order to maintain the storage of photos by year/month, I have used File Station, but cant figure out how to transfer them to Synology Photos in order to take advantage of the options it provides and still maintain the file structure. Transferring photos from my HD directly to Syn Photos ends up with all the pictures from a whole year in one big album. Can you suggest a better way? Thank you.

[@amandineberger4202]

I've got the same exact problem, some help would be very much appreciated. If you could help us Tony, we would be even more grateful!

[@Spanto21]

How to 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 !!

[@TwanJaarsveld1]

i have some pictures with the wrong date, so they showed up wrong on the time line, is there a way to move those back, i already changed the date on them but they stayed put

[@eschatonhemera654]

Thanks for the informative video. I am almost in the exact same position you are. Even have the same iPhone model. Looking at moving from iCloud Photos to Synology Photos. Here's my question: Do you know if Synology Photos will import from the Photos app on a Mac or other Apple device? Thank you!

[@QuikTechSolutions]

Thanks Eschaton! So if you download the Synology Mobile app there is an upload feature in the settings. The app will upload your iPhone’s camera roll to Synology Photos. Hope this answers your question. Please subscribe, share, and give the video a like 👍. Have a great day!

[@DCWilliam24]

How large is your photo library? Unless all of your photos fit on your phone (and not just the little thumbnails) you can’t just sync with your phone’s camera roll. Likewise, unless your computer has a hard drive large enough to store all the photos locally, you’re going to have to do some extra work.

[@woxit6107]

Thanks for your time and effort.

[@skystink]

Great video, thank you. I still have tremendous issues understand Synology Photo. Given the following case: I have tausends of images categorized in folders. All those folders are within a "Shared Folder". I have several users that can read-only-access those images via their Windows PC. They can also download as needed. So, how can I make use of Synology Photo now giving those users the filter capabilities (search for people, tags, timeline etc.?). So far this is not possible - Just when I copy those files into my home/photo directory. When I copy them into the shared folder "photos" then not even I myself can make use of the filter. Thanks for any advise or am I the only one with this use case (SP plus network share?).

[@n3tfury]

Dude, if that's your garage space that is awesome!

[@QuikTechSolutions]

Thanks so much for watching. Have a great day!

[@MikeS29]

Thanks for another great video. I was hoping, however, to see specific information about moving iCloud photos to Synology Photos app. It seems tedious using the backup featrure in Synology Photos iPhone app, super slow and sluggish. I wonder if there are faster ways to migrate the photos.

[@QuikTechSolutions]

Are the photos synced with Photos on your computer? If so, you can drag & drop your folder structure directly into Synology Photos.

[@MikeS29]

@@QuikTechSolutions - I have a Mac-Mini where the real photos live, but access thumbnails on my Windows laptop from iCloud to view local copies. I guess the original source should be the place to go for moving the photos to the Synology? Thanks again!

[@asishreddy7729]

I’m so glad that people who are in their middle age are also being conscious of privacy practices by big tech. Kudos to you sir. I hope more people take their data privacy seriously and do not let big corporations (who are NOT your friend) slowly change the status quo. Personally I feel what apple has tried to implement is grossly unacceptable, first they will use an excuse no one can say no to, like protecting children. Slowly but surely they will increase the scope of their scanning to allow law enforcement and governments to take a look at your data without your consent. This is precisely why I was looking at alternatives to iCloud and switch now, and came across your video. Very well explained, thank you for the great content!

[@QuikTechSolutions]

Well I thank you very much for posting this comment. Have a wonderful day!

[@I_OptimusPrime]

Yes if they can do that, they can do anything.

[@francoisgs1]

great job and thank you Tony , for. a nerd like me very helpful

[@QuikTechSolutions]

Thanks for watching & commenting. Glad you found the video helpful! Have a great day.

[@ews4271]

Thank you for the video - very helpful. I have begun transferring photos from iCloud to Synology photo and have encountered problems with some photos not transferring. The error message refers to a "conversion failure." Since they are older pictures I scanned into .JPG, I am confused about the error. Can you suggest a fix?

[@QuikTechSolutions]

Thanks for watching & commenting. Sorry you’re having this conversion error. I suggest searching the Synology forums or contacting Synology Support. Have a great day.

[@robknopperstudio]

Thanks for this. How would you properly migrate photos from apple photo libraries into Synology photos? Would I export photos from Apple photo library directly into the Synology Photos main photo folder, or should I put them into a separate folder and upload them from within the Synology Photos app?

[@QuikTechSolutions]

Hi Rob, you can actually drag & drop your photos right from your Mac into the Photo folder inside your Home folder in Synology’s File Station. This way the photo structure will be maintained.

[@ingoknito9385]

@@QuikTechSolutions yes, drag & drop is a solution. But, if doing so, the files are converted from heic/heif to jpeg and you loose life images. So, the better way is using the phone selecting the "picture backup" in settings. (Don't know the proper english expresison, my one is german) Then select "backup all images". But you can use a third-party tool as well, like photosync. The advantage of that is, that you can set an automatic upload when (connecting to a wifi while) arriving a specific address. The automatic upload via the Synology Photos app doesn't work properly for me. Asking the Synology Support i got the answer that this is an issue of iOS, so Synology can't do something on that topic. After a couple of weeks I have to say, that the solution with photosync works fine for me. After automatically uploading my images they are even indexed and ready to watch when you open Synology Photos app the next time.

[@kalkydra]

​@@ingoknito9385 Hi, thanks for this useful information. One question though, if you have a large photo library and you are using the option of iCloud Photos to optimize Storage, that means you dont have all the originals in the phone. When doing from the synology photos app the backup option, does the photos backed up to Synology are the originals (meaning somehow are backed up from the cloud itself to synology) or are they the lower res files stored in the phone the ones which are backed up? Thank you for the insight!

[@ingoknito9385]

@@kalkydra I did few backups of the iCloud gallery. First with moments, then with Photos. The files stored in iCloud were downloaded to the phone, then backed up to the Synology. Important to this is, that your phone has enough local storage. Example: if your iCloud gallery is about 100 GB and your iPhone has only 50 GB free storage left, only 50 GB are backed up. So it's better to use for example photosync because of the setting deleting photos after syncing. Also you can easily recognize which photos are backed up yet and which ones are not. Don't get me wrong, i am not paid by its developer. But, it's the tool which saved my ass many times. That's why I recommend it often.

[@QuikTechSolutions]

Ingo Knito, thanks for sharing your insight on this. I really enjoy when the community gets involved. We all learn from each other. Have a great day!

[@oldaccount7463]

Did you ever make a synology photos mobile video? I'm looking to get one to replace google photos but the playstore reviews of the app are horrible.

[@QuikTechSolutions]

Hello Abel, I have not yet done a video on the mobile app. It is on my to-do list. Overall, the app is pretty simple, not a lot going on. If you’re looking to simply view photos and organize into albums, it’s perfect. There aren’t any editing tools, like the native iPhone Photos app. Again, I find it’s simply for viewing.

[@tobiasgrubauer5963]

Hi Toni! Question from Austria! ;-) How big is your Mediathek? and how good / fast Works it on Mobilephone? my Mediathek is 175GB and I'm afraid that it is very slow on the phone.

[@QuikTechSolutions]

Hi Tobias, my media library is not quite that large. It works fine on my iPhone as long as I’m in a decent coverage area.

[@kalkydra]

Hi, thanks for this useful information. One question though, if you have a large photo library and you are using the option of iCloud Photos to optimise Storage in your mobile device, that means you don't have all the originals in the phone. When doing the backup option from the synology photos app, does the photos backed up to Synology are the originals? (meaning somehow are backed up from the cloud itself to synology) or are they the lower res files stored in the phone the ones which are backed up? Thank you for the insight!

[@Cannonballdrive]

If photos in Apple Photo are optimised then backup to Synology will be also be the same. If you want to have full size photos, you have to download them a) from iCloud with browser manually. Very cumbersome, takes a lot of time(if you have a lot of photos), you can’t quit browser or turn off computer while downloading, otherwise you have to start downloading from scratch again. One way is to download them by day or week at once. Also cumbersome, because you have to keep track what photos have you downloaded and what not. B) on Mac, download with Photos full-size photos and then back up them to Syno. If your hard drive is limited on space, move your photo catalog to external hard drive c) if you don’t want to move your catalog to other hard drive, make a new apple account with the same Apple ID and then there setting Photos app move your catalog to external hard drive. And let it download full size photos. d) on Windows PC download with iCloud program. Same here, if hard drive cannot take them all, save them to external hard drive. If you want to from “today” that all new photos will be copied full sized to synology, you can make it from Synology photos app. So all old photos won’t be backed up to Synology, but all new photos will be. And they will be all full sized. But remember that if you will do any changes to photos in Apple Photos the changes won’t be synced to Synology Photos. So you have to manually export them to Synology. PS! Optimised storage means that all photos what are older than a mont will be optimised. All photos what are younger than a month are full sized, if you have that free space of course.

[@mrhobs]

@@Cannonballdrive Hmm... that's a lot. Maybe I'll be back to try following this eventually. I'm sorta just hoping to back up my phone to my Mac, and then Mac to Synology... idk. (Ideally it would happen through WiFi straight from my phone to the NAS via the local network... but I'm still learning about NASes and networks in general, so who knows what is possible.)

[@CharlieSchliesser]

Use Photos on a Mac and set the iCloud sync option to keep full-size originals. It will download your entire library to ~/Photos/PhotoLibrary (can’t recall the exact name of the library folder…)

[@erikvandeven8344]

Thanks for this video!....maybe a stupid question but how do I easiest migrate my Photos library to the Synology Photos App?

[@QuikTechSolutions]

Hi Erik, thanks for watching. On your computer, right click on your photos library, then select open package. locate the folder containing your photos, then drag this folder to the Synology Photos folder.

[@AktywnyTata]

One question on face recognition. System did that but believes that the same person is on 5 pictures. In reality the person is on 2 photos and 3 other photos show other friend. How can I manually change that and assign faces to a proper person?

[@QuikTechSolutions]

Sorry for the delayed response. I tried to duplicate the issue you are having to see how to correct it. I was able to recreate the issue, but unfortunately could not come up with a way to manually re-assign people correctly. This is a option that one would think would be possible. Hopefully, it will be in future releases. Have a great day.

[@wevegonetouring]

Thanks Tony, look forward to the iPhone sync video when it comes along.

[@QuikTechSolutions]

Thanks so much. Glad you enjoyed the video. Please subscribe, share, and give the video a like 👍. Have a great day!

[@ewenmclartyr4594]

How do you move photos between Private and Shared?

[@smilewithgourav]

Thank you for the video sir, Precise and clear. Do share more details about users and sharing option in a family setup Regards

[@QuikTechSolutions]

Thanks Gourav Sureka! Appreciate your comments. Glad you found the video helpful. Please subscribe, share, and give the video a like 👍. Have a great day!

[@JoelFabiani]

I started to get excited with Synology photos but not being available on apple tv is a big bummer. There's no logic to be streaming photos from my phone when NAS and Apple TV are wired on the same network.

[@sylvainalain6637]

Hi , thanks for that video :) I have a question for you , is there a way to import a lot of pictures and videos ? I have more then 50000 pictures and videos and it’s around 2TB. I guess that the web interface will crash or will not even accept that many data. Do you need to copy all the pictures again to a specific folder or not ? Thanks 🙏

[@QuikTechSolutions]

Hi Sylvain, i would suggest dragging and dropping the photos folder from your computer directly to the Synology Photos “Photos” folder.

[@vladiermakoff6506]

Hi Tony, how do you figure out problem with sync iphone and nas using Synology Photos app? Ios stop app in background and you should keep app opened during sync.

[@QuikTechSolutions]

I leave the app running in the background all the time. Sync will only take place on Wi-Fi not on cellular. So every time you return to your home net work, the app should sync.

[@vladiermakoff6506]

@@QuikTechSolutions one more stupid question - how do you make app running in background? In my Xs it stoped in a few minutes.

[@QuikTechSolutions]

Not a stupid question at all. Typically on most iPhones, once you launch the app it will stay running in the background unless you actually swipe up from the bottom to close the app.

[@jasonpower6769]

How on earth are you managing to show Live Photos on there, I was not aware it supported Live Photos (iOS)

[@QuikTechSolutions]

Hey Jason, I believe it to be the result of upgrading to V7.1. Synology Photos was updated as well in that release. Thanks for watching.

[@stevezb]

Can you create multiple users so family members can have their own private photo albums or space on one sinology device?

[@QuikTechSolutions]

Hi Steve, thanks for watching. Yes, for sure you can.

[@dandonovan1]

Thank you for this video! Quick question: If I have images in Synology Photos, then make adjustments with Photoshop to some of those photos on my Synology drive, will those changes automatically appear in Synology Photos?

[@QuikTechSolutions]

Hi Dan, thanks for watching. If you save the changes to the file without changing the name or exporting as a second version of the photo, the changes should appear in Synology Photos. Take one photo and test it out.

[@dandonovan1]

@@QuikTechSolutions Thanks for the quick reply! My Synology arrives tomorrow, so I will try it out soon!

[@QuikTechSolutions]

Congratulations! What model did you get?

[@dandonovan1]

DS1621+ with six 8TB drives. I am a photographer and have lots of raw files! My plan is to import the completed JPG files into Synology Photos. Any reason I should include the RAW files as well?

[@QuikTechSolutions]

@@dandonovan1 Nice! I have the 1621+ as well. Great unit! Will you store the raw files on the 1621+ just not in Synology Photos?

[@ixxgxx]

if you delete on your phone, does it delete on synology? what if you delete while off your network ¿ Does it mirror your phone no matter when you get back on your network¿?

[@QuikTechSolutions]

Thanks for watching. Yes to all of the above.

[@toytalks7541]

Anyone having problem in importing photo to Mac Photo Library which living on NAS?

[@JudasBytes]

does synology photo trim the quality of a photo?

[@QuikTechSolutions]

Hi. Judas, quality is not affected. However, it doesn’t carry over certain features like Live Photo.

[@francoisgs1]

how an we ensure that when i add new picture I dont duplicate all of them over and over again? Thanks

[@QuikTechSolutions]

Hi Francois! Thanks for watching. I’m not sure I understand what you’re asking. Why would adding a new photo duplicate your entire library?

[@francoisgs1]

@@QuikTechSolutions HI i got 60000 pictures in my Iphoto on my MacAir and Iphone . am trying to download in my new Synology DJ200+ ( very new at it, been trying to download all my pictures but seems to take for ever and often computer turn off and even when I set it not to switch off it does and a=can see honestly specifically what has been transferred and how to assure I dont duplicate the pictures transfer to avoid having 120K pictures suddenly ;)) is there a faster way to transfer pictures and how to make practical without missing any or duplicating too ;) thanks

[@QuikTechSolutions]

Hi! So assuming that your MacBook Air & iPhone are in sync, you can right-click on your iPhoto library, then navigate to the folder labeled “Originals” and drag that folder from your MacBook Air into Synology Photos.

[@francoisgs1]

@@QuikTechSolutions I believe is what I am doing select picture in my Iphoto file in my computer and synology photos via teh upload + but can take only 5000 pictures at the time which take a real long time ;))

[@QuikTechSolutions]

You’ll get better performance if you connect your computer to Ethernet. Transferring files over a hard wired connection would be faster than over WiFi.

[@HarleyPan]

My Synology Photo app on phone is super slow. doesn't show photo previews instantly like Google Photos...anything we can do to improve this? I have a j series, with a network measuring 800mbps download and upload speed. Thanks!

[@QuikTechSolutions]

Thanks for commenting. Your network speeds are fine. The bottleneck is most likely the processor on the J series NAS. I’m not sure there’s much that can be done to improve the situation short of upgrading to a more robust Synology.

[@HarleyPan]

@@QuikTechSolutions thanks for the response!!

[@ReynoldsBrood]

I have a huge Apple Photos library and haven’t had any luck with trying to upload via the web browser due to a 5000 photo limit. I have an exported copy of my library that will take less time, but I don’t trust that every single photo was exported. I was really hoping I could just point the importer to the Originals folder, and it would take all the photos without Apple’s nonsensical file structure.

[@QuikTechSolutions]

Hi Shane, you could drag the photos folder from within the Photos library directly to Synology Photos.

[@ReynoldsBrood]

@@QuikTechSolutions It says there’s a limit of 5000 photos per import. I have almost 300000 photos.

[@SmartCaster]

If i already have folder on NAS with photos, how can i link it with Photos app?

[@QuikTechSolutions]

Hello Igor, you can simply drag your existing folder into the Photos folder used by Synology Photos.

[@SmartCaster]

@@QuikTechSolutions it use folder "home", and i can't choose it in Cloud Sync (то make backup photos to some cloud)

[@eidodk]

It's not really a debate. Your privacy disappears, when you let third party entities handle your data. This is one of the main reasons why the world went from mainframe remote data to local data in the 70's... Here, 50 years later we seem to have to do the same once again..

[@QuikTechSolutions]

💯

[@yofiesetiawan]

You will be surprise of how it handle 360 image file...

[@gabyu]

Now, let's say it straight: - No tvOS app - No object detection - Faulty UX: Need to confirm on a button before deleting, No trashed photos folder, Switch personal/shared photos bad

[@QuikTechSolutions]

I believe I said in the video, it’s not for everyone. It’s more for management of photos than it is editing & manipulating photos. I was forthright about it.

[@texasdoc68]

I can’t get mine to do facial recognition. There are no albums under people. How do I turn this on?

[@QuikTechSolutions]

Hi Tom, when photos are initially added to the Personal Space, any photos containing people should appear under the Albums tab. At that point, Synology Photos asks “Who’s This?” Once you answer all the “Who’s This?” Your photos will be organized by the facial AI in the Peoples Album. Is this not happening for you?

[@texasdoc68]

No, I have added thousands of photos to the shared space. I want all the photos to be available for the entire family, each with a separate login. The People album is blank. I tried adding some photos to the personal space. It adds the location in the places album but still no people.

[@texasdoc68]

Well, it eventually asks me who people are when I put the photos in the personal space. How do I either 1- get facial recognition to work in the shared space, or 2- grant access to all who login to the NAS access to the photos under my personal space?

[@QuikTechSolutions]

@@texasdoc68 Hey Tom, Check under your account Settings>Global make sure Allow Users to Enable People Album is enabled. Then go to Settings>Personal , scroll down and make sure Enable the People Album in Personal Space is checked. To answer the second part of your question, I am releasing a video this Saturday on setting up sharing permissions for Shared Space. In the video I show how to copy photos from the Personal Space to the Shared Space and set user permissions for access.

[@texasdoc68]

Those settings are already selected. It works with photos in the personal space. Any photos uploaded to the shared space do NOT get facial recognition.

[@steveyg777]

Thanks for this. The user interface looks like a direct copy of google photos lol

[@QuikTechSolutions]

Similar indeed!

[@muchada1]

Good video

[@JCouv52]

Date sort is very poor. Does not use 'photo create date'. Maybe uses last modify date or date copies to disk- whatever - makes this program quite useless to use when you need to rely on date sort.

[@eternalpoem]

it dosn t work in background

[@QuikTechSolutions]

Actually it backs up to my Synology in the background all the time.

[@neo110503]

What are you using as a backup solution for your Synology?

[@QuikTechSolutions]

Hi Neo, great question. I have several backup procedures in place. I backup to an external drive using HyperBackup. I also use Snap Shot Replication to a second NAS offsite.

[@nebulousJames12345]

Some problems... - can't play slow motion videos - if you delete photos on iphone, the photos stay in synology photos. Which is a problem when you have the photos on your iphone automatically upload to synology photos. This is borderline expected as this is a "backup" solution. But a true sync would be much more useful - no map of geolocations

[@QuikTechSolutions]

Synology Photos isn’t a one size fits all solution, and is not for everyone.

[@panhulaj6267]

Get google photos, synology photos is realy bad.It is not a alternative. It is rubbish at the moment.

[@alexschmit8233]

Not so cool not supporting organisations that are willing to prevent evil people. But that is another story. Anyways unfortunately Synology Photo is not an alternative to Apples solution since you do not have the ability to access your photos from an App on your iOS device!

[@QuikTechSolutions]

Alex, I don’t understand your comment on several levels. Regarding access to photos, I do it all the time using Synology’s Photos Mobile app.

[@alexschmit8233]

@@QuikTechSolutions I quote at 0:27 "icloud photos I've been using it for years and yes I am aware of the risks that come with security and privacy when using a third-party cloud service however it never really concerned me as I have nothing in my photo collection that is of concern however with the recent developments with Apple iCloud Photos and the new iOS 15 and the macOS Monterey... 2:05 child abuse imagery provided by child protection organisation like national center for missing and exploited children... 2:51 ...at this point I was like there's really no reason to keep my photos out in the cloud... So promoting Synology Photos wouldn't this be promote evil use? 🙈 If you say you have access to photos from for example eBay or Instagram from the Synology’s Photos Mobile app could show us this? Thanks

[@QuikTechSolutions]

Hi Alex, you are reading way to deep into this video and I find your interpretation of my words interesting. In any event, I don’t see supporting Synology Photos as a bad thing. It’s merely an option for security minded folks who rather not keep their data in the cloud. It also provides a user full control of their data on their own device. As far as not supporting Apple, I commend them for taking steps to keeping kids safe. In fact, at 2:31 I said, I’m all for protection of children.” I’ve been an Apple guy my entire life. Enough said! Have a great day!