So I was curious about Photo Station and wanted to play around with it. Before I get to the problem I have to give some background:
I have 2 users set up for myself: an admin user (NewbieAdmin) and then my everyday user (Newbie). NewbieAdmin can do all the admin stuff, while Newbie has restricted access to some stuff. Having the two different accounts was something that was recommended to me on this forum.
I use my Newbie account to map folders on my NAS to my computer as drives, so that I can just use windows explorer to look for a file. Its just what I'm used to. Anyways, I was going through my photo structure that moments created and realized that I have photos stashed 3 and 4 levels deep in the folder structure. I wanted to play around with Photo Station to see how it'd handle the folder structure and so I installed it on my NAS using my NewbieAdmin via DSM. As soon as Photo Station was installed, my mapped drives to my photo folder disappeared from windows explorer. I also could not re-map them using my Newbie account. I momentarily panicked that somehow the install had just lost all my photos. I want to be clear that the Photo Station install never asked for any permissions to overwrite moments or to change privilege access to the photo folder.
However, I did find that I could re-map the drive to my PC using NewbieAdmin. So, I logged back into DSM with NewbieAdmin and was able to find the "missing" folder with File Station. I also discovered in the control panel that my access rights for my Newbie user had been changed. All of my other folder access for this user was read/write just as it was supposed to be, except for the Photo folder. The Photo Station install somehow changed the access rights for my Newbie user from read/write to No Access. I used NewbieAdmin to uninstall Photo Station and I changed the access rights for the Newbie user back to read/write, and am now able to map the drive to my PC using the Newbie just like I was before. It would seem that I managed to fix everything, except...
...the final hitch in all of this is that if I map the "photo" folder or view it in File Station with NewbieAdmin, then folder is full of my photos just like it was before. However, if I map the photo folder with Newbie or view it in File Station, the folder appears, but it is empty. All other folders and drives show up and function just like they should except for the photo folder. Why is the folder full for NewbieAdmin but empty for Newbie?
I have 2 users set up for myself: an admin user (NewbieAdmin) and then my everyday user (Newbie). NewbieAdmin can do all the admin stuff, while Newbie has restricted access to some stuff. Having the two different accounts was something that was recommended to me on this forum.
I use my Newbie account to map folders on my NAS to my computer as drives, so that I can just use windows explorer to look for a file. Its just what I'm used to. Anyways, I was going through my photo structure that moments created and realized that I have photos stashed 3 and 4 levels deep in the folder structure. I wanted to play around with Photo Station to see how it'd handle the folder structure and so I installed it on my NAS using my NewbieAdmin via DSM. As soon as Photo Station was installed, my mapped drives to my photo folder disappeared from windows explorer. I also could not re-map them using my Newbie account. I momentarily panicked that somehow the install had just lost all my photos. I want to be clear that the Photo Station install never asked for any permissions to overwrite moments or to change privilege access to the photo folder.
However, I did find that I could re-map the drive to my PC using NewbieAdmin. So, I logged back into DSM with NewbieAdmin and was able to find the "missing" folder with File Station. I also discovered in the control panel that my access rights for my Newbie user had been changed. All of my other folder access for this user was read/write just as it was supposed to be, except for the Photo folder. The Photo Station install somehow changed the access rights for my Newbie user from read/write to No Access. I used NewbieAdmin to uninstall Photo Station and I changed the access rights for the Newbie user back to read/write, and am now able to map the drive to my PC using the Newbie just like I was before. It would seem that I managed to fix everything, except...
...the final hitch in all of this is that if I map the "photo" folder or view it in File Station with NewbieAdmin, then folder is full of my photos just like it was before. However, if I map the photo folder with Newbie or view it in File Station, the folder appears, but it is empty. All other folders and drives show up and function just like they should except for the photo folder. Why is the folder full for NewbieAdmin but empty for Newbie?