'photos' appears in my folder 'my drive'

[caglar]

Hi,
I'm using DSM 7.1. As I mentioned in the title, the 'photos' folder appears inside 'my drive' folder. I don't know how this happened. I didn't press the convert button for my drive. I don't know why, but the convert button doesn't appear either. Can you help me?
Thanks.

 

[Rusty]

This is by design with DSM 7.1 and the new Photos app. Photos folder is inside your account folder not inside the actual Drive folder.

My Drive = your home account folder

<home>
    <username>
        <Drive>
        <Photos>

 

[caglar]

This is by design with DSM 7.1 and the new Photos app. Photos folder is inside your account folder not inside the actual Drive folder.

My Drive = your home account folder

<home>
    <username>
        <Drive>
        <Photos>

But I don't want the 'photos' folder to appear in my drive. Isn't there a way out of this? I'm already using the photos app for this.

 

[caglar]

When I look from the DSM 7.2 RC demo server, 'photos' are not visible in 'my drive'.

 

[Rusty]

When I look from the DSM 7.2 RC demo server, 'photos' are not visible in 'my drive'.
View attachment 12730

By default in 7.2RC version that I am running, Photos folder is part of the My Drive view

 

[caglar]

By default in 7.2RC version that I am running, Photos folder is part of the My Drive view

So is there any way not to see the 'photos' in the 'my drive'? I don't want to set up nextcloud for this

 

[Rusty]

I really can't say of the top of my head as I never looked into this. Why is this an issue to begin with? Maybe I am missing something here.

 

[caglar]

I really can't say of the top of my head as I never looked into this. Why is this an issue to begin with? Maybe I am missing something here.

I don't want to see the photos folder on synology drive. Because I use synology drive and synology photos as two separate services. I do synchronization work via webdav. The fact that the photos folder appears in the drive is a security problem for me.

 

[Troyking]

I also have an issue with this, I sync my entire Drive to my pc and now it added 1TB of unnecessary Photos. These two apps should stay separate I don't understand why they need to be merged. If I want to do anything with the Photos folder that's what File Station is for

 

[caglar]

I think it also gets involved in versioning because it appears in Photos my drive. That's a separate problem, too. Is there no solution?

 

[dimfil]

I also have an issue with this, I sync my entire Drive to my pc and now it added 1TB of unnecessary Photos. These two apps should stay separate I don't understand why they need to be merged. If I want to do anything with the Photos folder that's what File Station is for

Just exclude Photo folder from syncing. I use it that way, no issue at all with the desktop app.

 

[fredbert]

There was the option to switch Drive’s My Drive from /home/drive to /home. This would impact all users and I think is a once only option… I haven’t used it. Also I’m not sure if new DSM / Drive deployments even give the option, and that it’s always /home now.

With support for on-demand sync then I guess the idea is that users won’t sync down their full home folder. But I’d like to keep some stuff out of Drive’s versioning so I’ve not switched to the new My Drive being all the home folder.

 

[fredbert]

That setting to convert My Drive from a user's /home/drive to /home. It's not obvious how to do it, if you had an older Drive setup, but if you select My Drive and the Convert button is enabled then you can change from /home/drive. If the button is disable then you are already using /home and cannot change it back.

 

[caglar]

Thanks for all your supports.

 

[thejokerrush]

that is so strange, i need versioning for my business file but photos. im trying nextcloud...