Suggestions for Synology Users

[brock]

Thanks for this script, this is super helpful. I'm running a Synology and thought I'd contribute a couple tips that others might find useful.

• The indexing service on Synology can't be stopped easily, and once you start this script, your Synology will likely come to a crawl as it attempts to index and generate thumbnails for all of the new photos. You can pause it in the menu bar at the top of the screen, but I'd recommend setting the Indexing Service to run on a schedule.

• If you try to run ./gpth-linux from SSH, it likely won't work because (I believe) it is expecting a typical linux window environment. What worked for me was to run this on another machine and select the folders over the Samba share, so mount the smb://synology, select photo or some other directory, then running ./gpth-macos

[brock]

Sponsoring you for the year @TheLastGimbus as a thank you!

[TheLastGimbus]

thought I'd contribute a couple tips

Nice of you! If you would want to, we could make some .md file/wiki page for you guys

once you start this script, your Synology will likely come to a crawl

Hmm, if you intend to leave them there, this shouldn't be an issue, because gpth copies each file, changes it's date and it's done - it doesn't modify them afterwards or anything. But yeah, you may want to stop this

... mount the smb://synology, ...

Umm... ;_;

Bro, you can just use cli options to skip whole desktop-enviroment-pickers stuff:

$ unzip takeout.zip
$ gpth --input takeout/ --output my-photos/
# Should work perfectly on any distro

Funny thing, gpth is recommended in offical synology faq :sweat_smile: https://kb.synology.com/en-in/DSM/tutorial/How_do_I_migrate_photos_from_Google_Photos although it's old python version

Sponsoring you

Big thanks! Will definietley enjoy some coding'n'pizza with this <3