I had a fairly large (135Gb) Apple Photo library on my Synology NAS.<\/p>\n
After upgrading my Mac to Sierra I had all sorts of permission warning and was unable to repair \/ open my library.<\/p>\n
The official Apple Discussion forums were simply full of people whining \/ bitching with no solution…<\/p>\n
However I can confirm the following works :<\/p>\n
(I was connected via SMB)<\/p>\n
Repair your permissions from Terminal :<\/p>\n
sudo chown -R my_user_name ~\/Volumes\/your_NAS\/path_to_your_library<\/p>\n
sudo chmod -R 700 ~\/Volumes\/you_NAS\/path_to_your_library<\/p>\n
I then used Disk Utility to create a 200Gb Mac OS Extended Journaled (Apple Partition Map) Sparse Image on the NAS.<\/p>\n
After mounting the partition I was able to copy the library over, repair it and hey presto it all works! (For the record I was not able to successfully copy the library over without repairing the permissions first.)<\/p>\n
I’ve set the partition to automatically mount at Login.<\/p>\n
The nice thing about doing this that other Apple applications that “don’t work on a NAS” like iMovie work perfectly well on a mounted image stored on the NAS.<\/p>\n
In your face Apple – how can you expect users to be unable to store libraries like this on a NAS to begin with…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I had a fairly large (135Gb) Apple Photo library on my Synology NAS. After upgrading my Mac to Sierra I had all sorts of permission warning and was unable to repair \/ open my library. The official Apple Discussion forums were simply full of people whining \/ bitching with no solution… However I can confirm … <\/p>\n