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Re: OS6 and choice of volumes for home and media folders
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Re: OS6 and choice of volumes for home and media folders
Unlike the duo, the apps themselves are installed to a data partition (which in your case is the Backup volume, since you started with that).
The built-in iTunes server is enabled for every share (it is a share setting in OS6), and those shares can be on either (or both) volumes.
If you are using a PC as the iTunes server (using the NAS as the media library only), you also can put the media on either volume (since the PC is accessing the share, and doesn't even need to know the volume name to do that).
I don't use Photos II (or TimeMachine) so someone else will need to chime on those aspects.
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Re: OS6 and choice of volumes for home and media folders
Hi
Thanks for the informatoin about iTunes - good to know.
Tested ReadyNAS Photos II and uploaded a photo from my computer (a Mac) and
could then find in my test photo album. When I then go to the NAS I thought I would find
the uploaded photo from my Mac in data/pictures folders (here data is the current name of
the volume I later want to call ARCHIVE see above original post). Also I cannot find the photo
in volume BACKUP - so where is this uploaded photo on the NAS?
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Re: OS6 and choice of volumes for home and media folders
@janpeter1 wrote:
Hi
Thanks for the informatoin about iTunes - good to know.
Tested ReadyNAS Photos II and uploaded a photo from my computer (a Mac) and
could then find in my test photo album. When I then go to the NAS I thought I would find
the uploaded photo from my Mac in data/pictures folders (here data is the current name of
the volume I later want to call ARCHIVE see above original post). Also I cannot find the photo
in volume BACKUP - so where is this uploaded photo on the NAS?
I don't use photos II, and don't recall off-hand where its photos are stored.
But I did want to suggest that it is best to name the first volume you create "data". It isn't supposed to matter,but it wouldn't surprise me if some apps fail if they are installed onto a different volume.
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Re: OS6 and choice of volumes for home and media folders
I think from memory it is either on a hidden folder on the main data volume or under /apps/photos2
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Re: OS6 and choice of volumes for home and media folders
Good. Somewhat odd to make this folder hidden, but I guess a way to ensure that the Photos II app really works.
So then, what role has the default structure data/Pictures, data/Videos etc?
I consider to delte these folders, but they may be necessary and cannot just be added since might be "glued" in some firmware. In general I find very little documentation about this "default" data structure and its use.