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allan

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#2739840 6-Jul-2021 17:18

jonathan18:

So I rebooted the NAS and CPU utilisation dropped to basically nil; opened up the Photos app and the system seemed to grind to a halt, and so I was not surprised to see 'postgres' once again chewing up the CPU (see below).

All navigation within Photos is incredibly slow, and when clicking on a person within 'People' it generally doesn't display any photos (or it may initially do so with a person with only a few photos, but even that stops happening after a while).

Has anyone else experienced this problem? Should it be expected? I wondered if it could be related to Photos undertaking its scanning/facial recognition etc, but it's now been hours. Perhaps a corrupt database?

Appreciate any hints...

Based on my Virtual DSM test that I did with approx 2,300 photos, including a few videos, at around 11.2GB in size - that took a few hours. There should be a progress icon in the main DSM screen, top right. Also, if you log into the Photos app, it should tell you in the top left-hand corner how many photos are left to be processed.

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#2739854 6-Jul-2021 18:13

How many photos do you have? The system has to analyse and index all of them and this will depend on the number of items. If it is large, just let it do its thing.

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#2739961 6-Jul-2021 21:26

Thanks, guys - yep, everything’s settled down so clearly all is scanned and analysed now. It was a few thousand photos, I think; a slice of the full set, so at least when I add all the others I’ll know what to expect. Speaking of which…

Is there a way to point Photos to photos stored in an alternative location on the same drive? I already have a copy of all my photos in OneDrive, and have OneDrive backed up onto the NAS - all I want to do is have Photos scan this location rather than having to have a second copy saved in the Moments-created location. I’ve searched for info on this and have found occasional references suggesting it may be possible but no clear answer.

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#2740499 7-Jul-2021 13:16

jonathan18: Thanks, guys - yep, everything’s settled down so clearly all is scanned and analysed now. It was a few thousand photos, I think; a slice of the full set, so at least when I add all the others I’ll know what to expect. Speaking of which…

Is there a way to point Photos to photos stored in an alternative location on the same drive? I already have a copy of all my photos in OneDrive, and have OneDrive backed up onto the NAS - all I want to do is have Photos scan this location rather than having to have a second copy saved in the Moments-created location. I’ve searched for info on this and have found occasional references suggesting it may be possible but no clear answer.

I believe you can have one personal location for each user and one shared location, shared by everyone. The personal location would be under the home folder structure (similar to Moments) and the shared location can be a separate shared folder location (e.g. photos), but my understanding is that you can only have one shared folder.

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#2740558 7-Jul-2021 13:32

Thanks, that’s useful to know - but there still doesn’t seem to be a way to manually select a specific location for either personal or shared - ie to be able to point Photos to the ‘Pictures’ library in my OneDrive share. This is still my preference, so does anyone know if this is possible?

Or, alternatively, I am thinking I could create a second OneDrive sync that syncs only the ‘Pictures’ folder in my OneDrive account to the current location Synology Photos is scanning (Ie, the one created for Moments.) This would, I assume, require me to ensure the OneDrive sync has a separate task for this, which is clearly possible but not at the moment as I’m syncing at the root folder level; when I deleted this sync and tried to create a new one based around all folders bar the Pictures folder I could only select one first-level folder (meaning I’d need to create a new task for every first-level folder).

Is there not a way of being able to select multiple first-level folders within the same task?

I guess one workaround would be to simplify my OneDrive folder structure so there were only two first-level folders - ‘Pictures’ and ‘Other’ - but that seems unnecessarily restrictive.

Are there any other sync clients (ideally directly on the NAS) that will sync OneDrive on a Synology NAS?

Many thanks.

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#2748285 22-Jul-2021 15:20

Just upgraded my DS1919+

8 x 10Tb drives... anyone else find that the Synology Drive Server takes a long time to install?

Also.. along with the upgrade to 7, it seems to have added a bunch of apps that can see no need of?... Active Insight; DHCP Server; Synology High Availability; Hybrid Share Service; Node.js.V12; OAuth Service; Python2; SMB Service; SAN Manager; Secure SignIn Service;

Thoughts/Comments?

Sons Rig: Asus TUF Gaming X-570, Ryzen 9 3900X, G.Skill neo 2x16Gb 3600's, Sabrent Rocket 1Tb M.2, Win10 Pro, Phanteks case, EVGA G5 850W.

NAS: DS1819+ - 52Tb in Raid6

My rig: HP Elitebook X360 Lappy with a 2Tb SN850.. woohoo.. I've retired!

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#2748289 22-Jul-2021 15:26

DSM 7 seems to have a number of extra packages that cannot be uninstalled, including Active Insight, which shows as beta. Not that happy about having beta software that cannot be removed from a production release.

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