A number of months again, I moved my ~500GB Pictures (the default macOS app) library over to my Synology NAS (DS920+ working 7.1 or no matter is newest as of late 2022). It appeared that every one was advantageous, however I seen after an improve to macOS Monterey that it wasn’t scanning the picture database for individuals (facial recognition). I left it for per week since I’ve learn that helps, however nonetheless nothing. Checked Console.app output and located that it was repeatedly reporting errors about file permissions and different issues that sounded very filesystem associated; the NAS folder is a SMB share on the Synology, and I am not working it in a sparsebundle or something like that which might make it HFS+ or APFS.
I think that one thing is barely off as a result of the .photolibrary is not working on HFS+ or APFS, however Pictures.app is not reporting any difficulty to me aside from hidden within the console log output. In order that results in the query…
Is it doable to host your macOS Pictures.app library on a Synology SMB share? How have others finished it, and have they run into points?
I am involved that:
- If I preserve it on the pure SMB share, there’s something not fairly proper and would possibly fail sooner or later; instance is that the face scanning job would not look like working per week+ after upgrading to Monterey.
- If I create a sparsebundle and host that on the SMB share, it’s doable the sparsebundle may corrupt and I’d lose my library (i.e. I’ve had Time Machine sparsebundles on the NAS get corrupted earlier than for unknown causes).
Any ideas?
