I have a huge collection of photos on the NAS. How do I make them appear in Photos II? The only way of adding pictures I found was to add them through the browser interface.
What exactly is done when importing? I hope the images are not duplicated.
They are duplicated several times. Various different sizes including a copy of the original. Be warned, the import process is very slow, approx 5 seconds per photos, regardless of the image size.
What exactly is done when importing? I hope the images are not duplicated.
They are duplicated several times. Various different sizes including a copy of the original. Be warned, the import process is very slow, approx 5 seconds per photos, regardless of the image size.
Can anyone clarify that the photos that are uploaded are duplicated on the nas, even though the photos one would use currently already reside on the NAS?
So if one had 20GB of photos already in a share on the NAS, the NAS duplicates this in another folder thus resulting in 40GB of space used?
Not sure about the amount of space used but yes as mentioned the photos are stored with the hidden ".RNP2" folder on your data volume "C". The files are not stored in the cloud.
So if one had 20GB of photos already in a share on the NAS, the NAS duplicates this in another folder thus resulting in 40GB of space used?
This depends on if you want to share all of your 20GB of photos. Typically folks will pick and choose what they want to share and what resolution they want to share -- you may not want to share the full resolution of a photo and may want to export your photos to lower-res. I down-res my photos to 1920x1080 for a nice HD view and 4x6 prints unless I want someone to have the explicit ability to download higher-res. This reduces my photo size from 25MB down to about 500K. Add about 300K on average for various smaller res files that are used for thumbnail, cover-flow, etc, and you can figure out how much space each photo will take. So in my example, my 25MB photo turns to about 800K.
