Problem Description:
Recently I installed Ubuntu 24.04. as a new user. That all went fine. The only thing I can’t get done is accessing the Synology NAS from photo editing programs. The NAS is accessible via ‘files’ and the files are readable. I can also open photos in the various photo editors via the right mouse button with ‘open with’. That works of course, but is very cumbersome and I can’t import the photos into the library of the editor that way. Does anyone know how I can solve this?
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Date generated: 2025-01-18 12:24:48
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Hardware Model: Intel_R_ Client Systems NUC12WSKi7
The first thing that comes to mind is using a symlink. Find the folder path of your nas pictures on your machine and save that for later. Then open your home folder in a terminal. Since your home folder shows in the image editor, that tells me you could create a symlink there and the image editor would see it.
cd ~/
#Change your nasfolder path to the actual path
ln -s /your/nasfolder /home/hans-de-ruiter/Pictures/nasPictures
This will not duplicate the files, just create a logical pointer or “shortcut” to where your NAS stuff actually is.
Since you installed those from the app center, you’ll want to make sure you connect them to the “removable media” snap interface since a NAS might appear as removable storage when mounted.
You can do this from the app center for the individual app, or from the command line.
For the command line, it’s fairly simple. We’ll use Gimp as an example:
sudo snap connect gimp:removable-media
Doing that from any one of those apps will give them access to your NAS once mounted.
Not sure if this would also have the problem fixed. I tried it but the reaction in the terminal was: error: snap “rawtherapee” has no plug named “removable-storage”
