Editing Managing Media Indexes on Synology NAS

[[Category:Synology]]
== Overview ==

Notes related to creating and managing media indexes for photographs, videos, and music files on Synology NAS.

== Creating media indexes ==

* '''DSM''' > '''Indexing Service''' > '''Media Indexing''' > '''Indexed Folder''' button
** '''Create''' button
*** '''Name:''' ''Can be anything''
*** '''Folder:''' Select the folder to index
*** '''File Type:''' Photo, Music, and/or Video depending on contents of the directory

== Accessing indexed files in the Synology apps ==

<div class="alert alert-warning">Files won't show up in Synology media apps (e.g. Video Station, Photo Station, DS Video, DS Photo) until the directories have been indexed. This can take a long time (e.g. days) depending how many files are in the directory tree when the tree is added to media indexing.</div>

== File indexes ==

File indexes optimize searching media files. Primarily useful for photographs and picture files. <ref>[https://www.synology.com/en-us/knowledgebase/DSM/help/DSM/AdminCenter/application_indexservice_desc DSM Indexing Service], Synology Knowledge Base</ref>

Make a separate entry for each location that will be searched.

Once a file index is created and saved, a magnifying glass icon will appear on the right side of the DSM task bar indicating that a file index is being updated. This icon disappears when the indexing process has completed. The indexing process will start again at night after new files are added to any of the file index locations.

=== Creating file indexes ===

* '''DSM''' > '''Control Panel''' > '''System''' > '''Indexing Service''' > '''File Indexing''' tab > '''Index folder list''' button <ref>[https://www.synology.com/en-us/knowledgebase/DSM/help/DSM/AdminCenter/file_share_index DSM File Indexing], Synology Knowledge Base</ref>
* '''Create''' button
** '''Name:''' ''any name, but stick close to convention of naming the same name as the corresponding album in the Photo Station app''
** '''Folder:''' ''select top-level folder containing photos/pictures to index''

See [[Accessing Photos and Pictures on Synology Diskstation NAS]] for instructions on how to include photos outside of `/volume1/photo` in the Synology Picture Station and DS Photo apps.

== See also ==

=== External links ===

* [[Accessing Photos and Pictures on Synology Diskstation NAS]]
* [[Updating Media Indexes on Synology NAS]]

=== References ===
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