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ReadyNAS104 copied Macbook Pro PhotoLibrary
I am a newbie here! Clearly there are knowledgeable people all around this community. RN104 - Firmware 6.10.4 Hotfix 1. attached to Netgear R7000 Router over ethernet. I copied some 30,000 ...
BDC-M wrote:
How do I safely get them off the NAS back to the Macbook Pro PhotoLibrary preferably with names as previously? I have seen elsewhere on NAS blogs that I should take the Disk 1 out of NAS into a SATA disk holder and copy directly to Macbook Pro via USB.
No, don't do that, it won't work. The disk doesn't use a format that the Mac recognizes.
I'm not a Mac user, but I believe the issue here is that you dragged the icon for the library instead of copying the files themselves with Finder.
You can copy the files back (with finder this time), and then reset the photo libary to use the folder on the Mac. No idea if that will restore the names or not. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204414
Maybe a Mac user will offer another suggestion.
BDC-M wrote:
How do I safely get them off the NAS back to the Macbook Pro PhotoLibrary preferably with names as previously? I have seen elsewhere on NAS blogs that I should take the Disk 1 out of NAS into a SATA disk holder and copy directly to Macbook Pro via USB.
No, don't do that, it won't work. The disk doesn't use a format that the Mac recognizes.
I'm not a Mac user, but I believe the issue here is that you dragged the icon for the library instead of copying the files themselves with Finder.
You can copy the files back (with finder this time), and then reset the photo libary to use the folder on the Mac. No idea if that will restore the names or not. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204414
Maybe a Mac user will offer another suggestion.
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