I want to move my movies off my Mac to my NAS

[mrstucci]

I would like to move my movies off my MacBook Pro (El Capitan) to my NAS-TS251. How do I do this? Can I do this more importantly??? I have just wandered around my NAS setup looking for a way to do this and I got lost. I have an AppleTV 4 that I would like to stream the movies from onto the TV. I have Plex installed on my Mac and my NAS. I can install it on my ATV4 if I need to. I am just not sure how to go about doing this. Thank you so much for your help. I am running firmware 4.2 on my NAS. Again, thank you, Judy

[Don]

Just copy the files over to whatever share, existing or new, you want to use for your media. Then add that folder to your multimedia app.

[mrstucci]

So from iTunes I just move the movies over, drag and drop? Will all the pieces move along with the iTunes folder? And then add that folder to whatever multimedia app I have on my NAS? Sorry I am so dense but I am just making sure that I understand you correctly, Don. These directions are for a Mac, right? Going from iTunes to my QNAP....

[Don]

iTunes is a whole different animal. You didn't mention anything about iTunes in your first post. I suggest you google how to move media around within iTunes.

[Spider99]

Within itunes preferences>advanced you can set the itunes media library location and/or see where it is located on your mac - i would go to the apple forums to see how to move it from location a to b

Once you know how to do that you can move the data to the nas into a share folder e.g. Multimedia - set the permissions for who has access to those files etc

If you are using plex - then you need to install the plex media server on to the nas and configure your libraries so plex knows what is available

then authorise the plex clients e.g. appletv etc to use your new plex server

thats it in very outline terms

couple of other things as you are new to nas
a) sort out a backup for your data - the nas is not a backup solution - say an external usb drive
b) configure your nas with raid - i suggest raid1 it way less risky than raid0
c) update your firmware to the latest which is 4.2.1 - 01/06/16
d) have a read of the plex forums as well to ensure you set things up correctly for the server and client software
e) read the online manual and look at the tutorials at qnap to give you a better idea on whats possible and how to do it - some elements are a bit techy - so if you get stuck - ask here - just give us all the info first and explain what you tried and did not work etc then you will get a better answer/advice as we can only go on what you tell us

sit back and enjoy

[mrstucci]

Thanks! Judy

[gggplaya]

Mount the NAS onto your mac using Samba(smb). Figure out where your itunes library is and copy the files over.

For the Apple TV, i use INFUSE which is $10, but i prefer it over plex. There's no need for transcoding, but that means you need a strong wifi signal to your apple tv.

[gorbulan]

Mount the NAS onto your mac using Samba(smb). Figure out where your itunes library is and copy the files over.

For the Apple TV, i use INFUSE which is $10, but i prefer it over plex. There's no need for transcoding, but that means you need a strong wifi signal to your apple tv.

Why use SAMBA when a Mac can use AFP? Does Plex not support AFP?

[gggplaya]

It doesn't matter, just use whatever you like.

[dolbyman]

that was delayed...what happened here ?

[gggplaya]

I think someone made a post, then deleted it