Subject: Re: [Usher Talk] Usher with Synology NAS

From: Rob Griffiths <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 09:59:52 -0800

On Jan 6, 2013, at 8:42 AM, Skyline65 wrote:

> What is the best way to setup Usher, as I have all my movies, TV Shows on my NAS not my internal HD. I dont want Usher to move any files, rather just use it to edit some of the Metadata, file names etc and way of visualizing the collection. Also when I try adding supplementary folder is just quits.

You may find that Usher is too slow to use in this configuration, especially if you've got a large number of MKV-formatted movies: the QuickTime importer for MKV is extremely slow, even when used on an internal hard drive.

In general, to set it up to use the NAS, you'd want to use these settings on the Library tab of Usher's preferences:

1) The Library folder set to somewhere on your actual hard drive, not on the NAS.
2) Uncheck "keep library folder organized"
3) Uncheck the "Copy files to library folder when adding to library" option.
4) Uncheck the "Auto-dected and add new files in library folder" option.
5) Add a supplementary folder that points to the top-level movie folder on your NAS.

Usher will then have to process all the movies, which could take a long time -- potentially a very long time. If Usher is quitting when you set the supplementary folder, can you open Console, find the crash log for Usher in the Logs section, and email it to me as an attachment, off list? My email address is "rob at our domain name."

Thanks;
-rob.

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From: Skyline65 <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2013 08:42:44 -0800 (PST)

What is the best way to setup Usher, as I have all my movies, TV Shows on 
my NAS not my internal HD. I dont want Usher to move any files, rather just 
use it to edit some of the Metadata, file names etc and way of visualizing 
the collection. Also when I try adding supplementary folder is just quits.
Cheers