[digiKam-users] add a nas collection

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[digiKam-users] add a nas collection

magdan
Hi,

I would like to add all my photos from my Synology NAS to Digikam by adding
a new collection.

However, there is no option in the Browser for my NAS. Digikam just lists my
personal mac folders.

My NAS is connected and I see it in Finder, but it doesn't pop up at Digikam
Install window.

Might be a newbie problem, but I tried to tackle this since with google and
youtube since two hours. So finally I ended up here  I think more people
could face the same problem though.

Thanks for your help.

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Re: add a nas collection

Remco Viëtor
On jeudi 26 avril 2018 14:23:17 CEST Daniel Mikl wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I would like to add all my photos from my Synology NAS to Digikam by adding
> a new collection.
>
> However, there is no option in the Browser for my NAS. Digikam just lists my
> personal mac folders.
>
> My NAS is connected and I see it in Finder, but it doesn't pop up at Digikam
> Install window.

As far as I can tell, Digikam only sees mounted directories, and initially
shows your home directory, at least under Linux. You can browse up to "/", the
system root directory (click on the directory bar at the top).

The file manager does show a list of (mounted) network directories: I see the
directories on the NAS under their "NAS" names, but they are *also* mounted in
my local directory tree.

So if (the relevant directory on) your NAS is visible in Finder, you should
try to find the mount point on your system. If the NAS directory isn't mounted,
you can mount the remote directory somewhere (there should be a way to do that
automatically on system startup or login). (iirc correctly, MacOS is based on
a BSD variant, not linux, So while they are similar, there might be differences
in how this kind of things is handled)

@Gilles Caulier: Seeing this surprised me a bit, I'd expect remote directories
to handled a bit like in Dolphin, where they are also accessible in a separate
list panel. Now I could easily get the impression that there is no difference
between remote and local collections.

Remco

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Re: add a nas collection

advisorgee
I know this is a really old thread, but I was having the same issue, and my
search found this thread. I did figure out the solution for this; so thought
i'd post it here in case someone else has the issue.

In OSX, the mounted volumes can be found in /Volumes; however /Volumes is a
hidden directory and doesn't show up in the browse dialog box by default. If
you right click in the empty space there is an option to show hidden files.
Select that, and then you can browse to your mount point.



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AndriusWild
I have the same issue on Ubuntu. Not sure what causes that... I just got used to it.



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-------- Original message --------
From: advisorgee <[hidden email]>
Date: 2019-01-06 3:23 PM (GMT-07:00)
Subject: Re: [digiKam-users] add a nas collection

I know this is a really old thread, but I was having the same issue, and my
search found this thread. I did figure out the solution for this; so thought
i'd post it here in case someone else has the issue.

In OSX, the mounted volumes can be found in /Volumes; however /Volumes is a
hidden directory and doesn't show up in the browse dialog box by default. If
you right click in the empty space there is an option to show hidden files.
Select that, and then you can browse to your mount point.



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