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Qnap Mac Photo Library
The Photo Station (4.0) is an online photo album used to organize your multimedia content (photos and videos) on the Turbo NAS and to share them with your friends and family across the Internet. QNAP NAS provides Mac OS X users with an effortless solution to back up desktop data. No more dedicating external hard drives just for your Time Machine backups. With the NAS, you can set the capacity in the Turbo NAS dedicated for Mac data backup. QNAP offer easy solutions for users to backup from their QNAP NAS. Dec 15, 2015 Using iCloud Photo Library lets you shoot or import photos and videos from your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, or the web and have them all go to a single library that you manage. Delete a photo. Focus on your photos with QNAP NAS One-step for photo storage, backup, management and sharing. A personal cloud designed for photographers. QNAP NAS provides a large space for file storage and also allows you to easily back up precious photos, assisting you in creating a secure photo cloud. Apr 09, 2016 Use locally mounted Mac OS X Extended volumes for your Aperture library, it is strongly recommended that the Aperture library be stored on a locally mounted hard drive. Storing the Aperture library on a network share can also lead to poor performance, data corruption, or data loss. QNAP NAS provides a large storage space for you to easily back up the photos from your computers, mobile devices and portable storage. Private collection As multiple users can use the same NAS, you can set your photo albums as password-protected private collections so that only you can access your own photos.
If you want your Mac's photos to wirelessly sync to all your other iOS devices and computers, you want to set up iCloud Photo Library: Apple's photo sync service lets you back up your images on all your devices, as well as access them — online or offline — on said devices. If you're willing to pay for the extra iCloud storage space, you can store an incredible amount of photos and videos, all accessible at the touch of a button or multi-touch screen.
Photo and video files in the Photo Station are listed and displayed according to shared folder privileges and media folders settings in the Media Library. For shared folder privileges, only users with an appropriate permission to a shared folder can view its contents in the Photo Station.
Here's how to set it up on your Mac and get everything configured to your liking!
May 30, 2019 How to find the Library folder on Mac (macOS Sierra, Mojave or Catalina) Get the Library folder – Way 1. Open Finder window. Click Go in a Menu Bar → select Go to Folder. Or use the Cmd+Shift+G key shortcut. Jan 12, 2020 You can access the hidden Library folder without using Terminal, which has the side effect of revealing every hidden file on your Mac. This method will only make the Library folder visible, and only for as long as you keep the Finder window for the Library folder open. 
How to set up iCloud Photo Library on your Mac
- Launch the Photos app on your Mac.
- Select the Photos menu in the upper left corner of your screen.
- Go to Preferences.
Click on the iCloud tab.
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Check 'iCloud Photos.' This will begin uploading any and all images you have stored in the Photos app to iCloud.
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How to optimize your photo and video storage
If you routinely shoot 4K video or high-quality images on your iPhone, iPad, or DSLR, you may run out of storage space fast. (I have a 1TB iMac, but also have almost a terabyte of 4K video stored in iCloud — it gets unwieldy, fast!) This is especially true if you have a Mac laptop with limited hard drive space: It's nice to look at your iPhone's gorgeous Portrait mode photos, but not necessarily always practical to store all of them locally.
Thankfully, Apple offers an Optimize Storage option, which lets you store full-resolution photos and videos of only your most recently shot and accessed imagery; all older photos and videos are available to download via iCloud and are stored as low-resolution previews on your device to save space. You can switch between optimizing your Mac's photos storage or storing your full library locally: Here's how!
Note: If you plan on using Optimize Storage, we suggest having at least one device that stores your entire library locally (usually a Mac with a large local or external hard drive), so you have multiple backups of your photographs and video.
- Launch the Photos app on your Mac.
- Click Photos in the App menu in the upper left corner of your screen.
Select Preferences from the drop-down menu.
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- Click the iCloud tab.
Click Optimize Mac Storage.
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Full-resolution versions of your photos and videos will be uploaded to iCloud.
How to share photos with iCloud Photo Library
Apple's photo service doesn't just provide online backups and sync for your images and video: The company also offers a free sharing service that allows you to send shared albums to friends and family (or create a publicly-shared website). Here's how to turn it on for your Mac.
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Updated January 2020: Updated for macOS Catalina. Serenity Caldwell worked on a previous version of this post
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