for me it seems silly to have all that storage sitting there and no way to properly utilise it !! SOOOO need some help with this.I even tried to download a trial version Light Room to see if that product could use the Library stored on the NAS, but no go. I am starting to think that my dream of saving space on my iMac and using a 12TB NAS connected through a server that runs the computer network in my home to be is unachievable. I am just nervous about losing all of my phone. My attempts so far have proven to be fruitless and it seems that what i am asking is impossible. That is why I am trying to directly transfer my iCloud photons the external drive instead of onto my Mac I may have a file that can be referenced, but in upgrading my operating system with an Apple technician, I lost all of my photos on the external drive that was being used as a time machine. What I want to know and I would be happy if you or anyone else on here could answer me is whether I can hook up photos to an old Aperture library stored on my Promise Pegasus NAS that is connected to a Mac mini Server which in turn is networked to my iMac. But from my digging I a finding that NAS storage isn't an alien concept and depending on the connection to the NAS it can be a solution for a larger library. Haven't posted too much before (so not sure how the whole Q and A thing works) but after reading the responses to your question it doesn't sound that great. Of course, I would also like to have a way to secure the originals, for instance by use RAID and storage of incremental backups to different storage locations. The process must be automated in order to avoid misstakes, the originals are stored to the NAS and smaller copies are synched back to my MacBook. The large raw-formatted originals only needs to be stored to be available when I need to do some editing or print some photos. I have a lot of pictures and video memories that I would like to be able to cary with me in a format that is good enough to show the pictures to friends on a computer screen on a TV.
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By using a set of NAS:es I can secure the long time storage by myself.įurther on, I have a MacBook Air where the SSD is almost full of photos. I have no control if the cloud-service would be shut down or if they are going to increase the price to an extent that is no longer affordable.
I would like to avoid using cloud-services for storage of photos and other memories that I would like to last for a lifetime or even more. If thats the case it will really solve my problem: Those smaller copies may have been edited and are good enough to show on a computer screen. You are receiving similar functionality with the Photos app regarding original files and copies by using a NAS instead of iCloud? That is, you are storing your original photos on the NAS and only have smaller copies on your local Photos databas. Just to verify since I have read that what you describe above is not possible in the current version of the Photos App.