I've read that the Media Library along with Photos/Video Station is creating hidden thumbnails in each folder of where the media resides. How do I copy the photos to an external HDD (the whole folder structure; all photos) but not copy the hidden thumbnails?
I plan to migrate from QNAP Photo Station to Mac OS X High Sierra Photos to manage my photo collection. Looking for a clean source instead of all the junk files that QNAP may have automatically added to the folders.
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Copy the photos but not the thumbnails?
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Re: Copy the photos but not the thumbnails?
just copy them as mounted network drive, then what you see is what you copy.
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OK, so just mount in Mac OS X via AFP (or SMB) and copy over the network using OS X Finder, then the hidden thumbnails won't be copied over? Awesome, thank you.
Question on alternative - how about copying directly to the external HDD via USB 3 port on the NAS using File Station? Would hidden thumbnails be copied? I'm thinking this would be faster than the LAN (even though it's okay through network because I just just let it run for a few hours).
Question on alternative - how about copying directly to the external HDD via USB 3 port on the NAS using File Station? Would hidden thumbnails be copied? I'm thinking this would be faster than the LAN (even though it's okay through network because I just just let it run for a few hours).
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Re: Copy the photos but not the thumbnails?
not sure about external hdd, but I am sure if you move files with file station within NAS, the thumbnails will be moved as well
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Re: Copy the photos but not the thumbnails?
I know this is an old thread, but is there any solution to the final question asked? I want to plug a HDD directly into the NAS USB 3 port, and copy the files I originally put onto the NAS over to the external HDD, but without copying several extra sets of thumbnails that were auto generated by the NAS?
Cheers,
David.
Cheers,
David.