Cannot assign access to subfolder

[RandyV]

I've just started using Photo Station 3 on my DS 409+ with the lasted DSM (not the beta) and am having a problem with granting permissions on a subfolder.

I have a folder structure under "photo" as follows (all are private):

\photo
-2009
-- June
-- July
-- August
------Videos (private)

In short, "Videos" is a subfolder of August, which is a subfolder of 2009.

I have a non-admin Photo Station user set up and that user to only access the Videos folder under August. When I edit the user and use the "Access Permissions" tab, I only have the ability to assign the user access to the 2009\August folder. The "Videos" folder never shows up for me to assign permissions.

I've tried re-indexing, renaming the Videos folder and then re-indexing, removing the folder and reindexing, then re-adding the folder and re-indexing -- nothing works. The "Video" folder never shows up in the list for me to assign permissions for the non-admin user.

Am I doing something wrong or am I not understanding how this should work?

Randy

[vicne]

+1

My folder structure is :
2009
-- 2009-11
---- 2009-11-27 - Event name
------ (pics)

I'd like to share a specific event with people involved, not a whole month worth of pictures, but it seems impossible in the "access rights" interface, and I can't see why the recursion stops at the second level...

Any chance to see this limitation removed in a future update ?

Any hack to replace "2" by "3" somewhere ?

Best regards,

Vicne

[schwager]

Two years later and this still has not been fixed... Is there any progress on this issue or does Synology simply not plan to fix this problem. If not can anyone please explain to me why, because I cannot imagine that this would be a difficult issue to solve.
Fixing this problem is important to me since I would like to assign subdirectory view rights to individual users, without having to reorganize all my photos into a two-level file tree.

[syno.allen]

Two years later and this still has not been fixed... Is there any progress on this issue or does Synology simply not plan to fix this problem. If not can anyone please explain to me why, because I cannot imagine that this would be a difficult issue to solve.
Fixing this problem is important to me since I would like to assign subdirectory view rights to individual users, without having to reorganize all my photos into a two-level file tree.

Hi Schewager:
Synology Photo Station was designed to support permission setting down to the second level of folder structure, which would suffice for most users.

Regards

[vicne]

Synology Photo Station was designed to support permission setting down to the second level of folder structure, which would suffice for most users.

Sorry, but I find this answer a bit short. Did you ask your users what their folder structure is ?
People store more and more pictures, taken by more and more people in the family, with more and more cameras and smartphones. Hard drives are getting bigger and bigger and you force us to keep a flat structure with only 2 levels ? My Syno should help me organize my pictures, not prevent me from doing so.

I can easily imagine a structure such as :

John
--2009
----Jason's birthday
----New Year's Eve
--2010
----Professional training
----New Year's Eve
Mary
--2009
----John's birthday
----Holidays
--2010
----Jason's birthday
----Holidays

And John cannot share his training pictures with his colleagues without also showing his drunk pictures at the New Year's Eve party ? Sorry, but this is plain silly.

I currently have 56000+ pictures in my Photo folder, split by date into 2200+ folders (see my structure in my post above). Good luck finding back pictures if you split them in folders only 2 levels deep... I bet you don't personally use your NAS on a daily basis for managing your pictures, right ? If I'm wrong, can you show us your structure ?

I'm pretty sure the first part of your answer is true : "Synology Photo Station was designed to [only] support permission setting down to the second level of folder structure" but that wasn't driven by customer habits, only by bad assumptions.

That's my feeling anyway, and I'm still hoping a future DSM release will fix this. Until then, Photo Station is rather useless for me and I see no reason to upgrade from version 2.2...

Best regards,

Vicne

[vicne]

I cannot imagine that this would be a difficult issue to solve.

Unfortunately, yes, it is
I took a look at the code to see if I could change it, but the database model was designed with only a boolean flag "is_subdir" per share stating if the folder is at the second level or not. Rather silly, isn't it ?
That makes fixing this rather hard without refactroring a large bunch of code, and I guess this is the real reason why it isn't fixed already...

Best regards,

Vicne

[henningdalgaard]

I agree - this is just so outdated. How can you only allow one subfolder?
Even if it is complicated to fix there is no excuse.
Synology please fix this!

[RandyV]

Unfortunately, yes, it is
I took a look at the code to see if I could change it, but the database model was designed with only a boolean flag "is_subdir" per share stating if the folder is at the second level or not. Rather silly, isn't it ?
That makes fixing this rather hard without refactroring a large bunch of code, and I guess this is the real reason why it isn't fixed already...

I appreciate the reply vicne, but seriously -- Surveillance Station has received a major overhaul and a lot of other effort has been spent updating various DSM-related apps. Changing the DB schema and the associated code to address a pretty impactful shortcoming in PhotoStation should really be on Synology's list of things to do.

How do we get this on the list?

[oms_home]

Installed DSM 3.1-1742 Build Date: 2011/06/08

- No fix!
- No further response!

A max. directory depth of only "two" is ridiculous!

Synology, when will this issue be fixed? Pls. provide roadmap info.

@all this also may concern: Should we petition?

[claudeg13]

I agree with all...
This is a so great limitation that i found photo station not interesting to share pictures or video with my friends... so i don't use it for share, because i can't make precise access to my folders. It's only good for the admin who have permission to all

Please Synology Ingeneers, make a fix to this !

[Leo]

My structure also looks something like this.
-year
- month
- event1
- event2
....
Since I would like to give access to different people to different events, only a fix/update for the 2 level subdir problem makes photo station usefull to me, otherwise it is useless.

[oms_home]

Just updated to 3.2 hoping that Synology would fix the rights mgmt issue for subfolders (deeper then 2nd level) in Photo Station 5. It seems that nothing has changed?

Can somebody else confirm this?
Thx

[favrest]

Need this too.... I consider moving to Gallery2 again if that is not fixed in the next 2 Months.
If somebody has it already compiled for Model DS1511+ let me know.

Rgds
Tks
SF

[esquimo_2ooo]

I did too the update yesterday of DSM to version 3.2 1944
Hoping there was a fix for this "2 levels only situation", but still then no updates.
That's really frustrating to see how old is this post.

If the average office user or dept hasn't more than 2 levels of folders, let me know which ones it is so I can apply for an IT job right now
I've _never_ seen even on a small company's file server or nas that kind of clean tree.

[esquimo_2ooo]

I think the petition is a good idea, or at least it's worst trying. So I made one you can sign and share. It is dedicated to this evolution we all need.
Let's hope this will be heard.

If there's anything you want to modify or add please contact me

http://www.change.org/petitions/synolog ... tos-folder