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Comment on Controlling thumbnail generation on a Synology NAS by Checkeys

Checkeys — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:10:46 +0000

The dcraw process is consuming my cpu power as well (DSM 4.0 Beta, DS212J and Photostation 5)

Comment on Controlling thumbnail generation on a Synology NAS by TimO

TimO — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:36:10 +0000

Ok, thanks for the help (offline) Ryan. I have removed the unsharp lines (as I have an iPad so need the 1280 thumbnails I think) but I couldn’t stop / start the service. Say file not found but it listed it in DIR. Weird. So a hard reboot and let’s see …

Comment on Controlling thumbnail generation on a Synology NAS by TimO

TimO — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:27:03 +0000

Yeah, I have telnet-ed and found the thumb.conf file but I cant edit it? As far I can tell I have permission to (i.e. -rw-r–r–) but when I open in vi and delete the lines and try and save it says it’s read-only?

Comment on Controlling thumbnail generation on a Synology NAS by thierry

thierry — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:07:04 +0000

I tried your tips, inserting “exit” into the S77synomkthumbd.sh script.
It seams that it stop the creation of thumbnail and @eaDir in the photo directorie.

But the creation of the thumbnail and @eaDir continue into the Music and Video directorie.

So the multimedia serveur files indexation create thumbnail also for music and video.

May be an other script launch the synomkthumbd, synothumb, convert or dcraw proc

I realy like that media server just index file without creating any directories and thumbnails…..

Comment on Controlling thumbnail generation on a Synology NAS by vito

vito — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 16:15:49 +0000

Finally!!!! TNKs
Cheers from Italy!!!!

Comment on Controlling thumbnail generation on a Synology NAS by Anil

Anil — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:45:59 +0000

Sure, we can delete the @eaDir forlder, but I am wondering if it break the photo station!!! I mean, does the photostation work without this forlde?

Comment on Controlling thumbnail generation on a Synology NAS by Peter

Peter — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 08:21:19 +0000

Thanks! Was searching for this for a few weeks. Was getting desperate . I thought the guys from Synology were perfect. This was realy a big mistake. There is also no solution on the forum. I assume they read it as wel. Itsa shame.
Thanks again!

Comment on Controlling thumbnail generation on a Synology NAS by David

David — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 19:47:48 +0000

Dear Munky, thanks for putting this info on the web. I installed a Ds211j over a week ago and copied over 19,500 photos. My CPU has run flat out 24/7 since and I still have 8000 photos to thumbnail. Sadly I do have an ipad and the idea of streaming photos to it was one of the reasons I went down the NAS route.
Your other correspondents are right about performance however. Streaming music seems to work irratically for me at the moment.
PS there is a facility within the photostation UI to postpobe the thumbnailling for few hours presumeably to allow you to do other things.
Thanks again.

Comment on Controlling thumbnail generation on a Synology NAS by Chris

Chris — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 18:04:07 +0000

UPDATE: Quick and EASY way to delete all of the large photos is to just disable the Photo Station 4. It erases all of the files under @eaDir. I’m not sure why I didn’t try that before..

Comment on Controlling thumbnail generation on a Synology NAS by Chris

Chris — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:53:51 +0000

I’ll put it in “Layman’s Terms” so others may remove the excessive space taken.

You could format your storage and start from scratch.

If that’s not acceptable, do what I did. But, this way is time consuming. There might be an easier (Automated way) way, but I don’t know. I’m not too savvy with Linux.

Log into your Synology via root and type these commands:

cd ..
cd volume1 (not sure if this is the default name)
cd photo
From there you will see all of the different folders of pictures you have. Go into that folder.

Then, you will want to navigate into each photo folder (Hint: If there are spaces, type: cd “There is a space.JPG” to change to that folder.

Once your in that folder, go into this folder: cd @eaDir

You will find 4 files with different sizes of the same picture. I just remove them all: rm *.*

Once you are done, make sure to edit the thumb.conf file (Steps are above). Once you are done, just re-index your photos and let it build.

I know *most* users know how to do this, but I decided to take it down a notch so others can fix this issue (If they need it).

Hopefully Synology is taking care of this and will be fixed in their next release. From the quick updates, I’m sure this will be addressed in the near future.