Synology Photos

Finally fixed the insufficient space bug I’d get about a dozen photos in on a 15k photo backup so it’s at least backing up now. Leaving original review text below. One star off for taking so long to fix and the below mentioned issues with third party drives, et all. —— This used to work well but it’s probably been a year or so. Now it just has an increasing number of photos to backup and the queue never counts down. Honestly, I’m starting to move my workloads off my synology apps given their issues with third party hard drives, per camera licensing fees, and slow bug fixes like this.

Great progress with the latest update - instead of „insufficient storage“ it now says „server busy“…

更新到最新版增加了删除设置逻辑：“仅从NAS删除”或者“从NAS和手机中删除”。但是在删除照片的时候，仅仅询问过一次，就变成默认删除设置了😂。其实大家更想要的是，在整理照片的时候每次都弹出窗口询问是否双向删除，还是仅删除NAS，让用户来决定。现在的问题是，我删了NAS上的，还要去本地相册再删一遍本地的。或者我想删除NAS里的照片，结果本地也给删除了😂。建议删除设置里面再增加一个选项“删除每次询问”，这样更合理一些。

No matter how it’s configured, no matter if it’s charging or on WiFi. It’ll never backup my photos automatically. I have to manually enter the app once a week and force it to backup. Very frustrating.

Only Synology app that is telling me my server address is unreachable. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling. Please fix.

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Update: Synology reached out with a beta link that seems to fix all the issues I list below. My review would/will be 4 stars whenever it gets released, but I’d steer clear until then. Was really hoping I could backup all my photos to my Synology in an easy way, but it’s constantly suspending (every few minutes) because of “Insufficient space”. I can’t even find any explanation what it means by space. I’m using an M4 1TB 16GB RAM iPad Pro, so “space” shouldn’t be the RAM or mobile storage (657.4 GB free). On my DS1618+ I have 18.9 TB free, and the folder/user have no limitations. I can babysit it and hit retry to proceed, but this whole initial backup could take days. I can’t do this every few mins, for days, so the back up feature doesn’t work. Wondering how this isn’t a much bigger issue for everyone.

Great app overall but this new NAS & iPhotos sync feature should be configurable or completely optional. There are many cases where I have photos on my phone but wouldn’t want them backed up in perpetuity via the NAS (then AWS). [UPDATE] - Amending my review due to the developer response that they are working on creating a user-facing option to enable / disable the app’s delete from NAS and Apple Photos app capability. I’m confident this will work as expected and it’s great to know that we’re being heard so updating this to 5-stars. Thanks, Synology!

Stopped backing up in the middle of March

Backup - It does Backup your photos and you can erase all or none of the backed up photos at once from your phone. You can not select any photos you would like to keep on your phone. Working with photos on your Synology is clumsy at best.. If you select a bunch of photos to tag them, it is not possible to also rate them.. You need to reselect the photos again and rate them. If one of the photos selected is not finished uploading yet it’s impossible to move any of the selected photos.. Face detection data is not transferable between Personal and Shared Space.. So you need to rename your Faces in the shared space after detection and once again in your personal space. You can not multitask, for example if you are tagging/moving photos you need to wait for this task to finish before you can do anything else, including just looking at photos.. There is only one view to see meta data.. No option to see Star ratings or tags in the main view. Filters are missing exclusion options for example display photos from a date without specific tags is not possible. Search function is not natural language friendly and works only with the exact tags, date format etc.. You can not search for: December 2020 it needs to be 2020-12-01