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NAS external storage device question
Hello to everyone. I am trying to find a great solution to my office/home system. We have like 5 computers here. Most are Macs but a couple are windows laptops. We use a lot of the Mac ecosystem mea...
The photos themselves can be made available to the Windows computers, but the app does run on the Mac, not the NAS, and can't run in Windows.
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Do you have any reccomendations of a NAS device I can move my Photos application to? I am able to copy the entire library to an external drive that is attached to my iMac and open the library. Obvoiusly I can do this because the iMac is what is bieng used to open the library. However the library with all the contents of the photos inside that library are on an external drive inside a regular enclosure. Its just not a NAS enclousure and I am hopeing to somehow do this over a NAS device. Even if I can use the library that is on the NAS device to access it on al our Macs without being connected directly to the NAS hard drive, as well as not having to copy that library to any specific computer.
A bit of Googling tells me that because Photos uses a database that is not intended for multi-user access, it just can't be done that way. You can move the photos to a NAS with them only directly available to one Mac and then share them with other devices within Photos itself. But the Mac that "owns" the photos must be on. Apparently if you also use iCloud, the external storage must be formatted as Mac OS extended (journaled), which means you have to use iSCSI on the NAS side.
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