Updating Media Indexes on Synology NAS

Goal

Files are saved to a Windows 7 directory.

A scheduled task copies those files to a remote NAS drive.

A task runs on NAS that re-indexes its media nightly (making it available to Photo Station).

How to re-index NAS so the files are available in Photo Station before the nightly indexing.

Enable the command line on NAS

• Log in to DSM.
• Enable SSH
  • Open the Terminal Services Menu, from the Network Services Folder
  • Enable the SSH Service.
  • Click OK.
• Grant remote access.
  • Open the Firewall Menu, from the Network Services Folder
  • Double click enabled rule
  • In Ports Section, press Select button next to Select from a list of built-in applications
  • Make sure Port 22 (SSH) is enabled
  • Click OK twice and then Save.

Re-index media files

• SSH to NAS server
• Navigate to the directory to be re-indexed
  

  $ synoindex -R dirpath

• synoindex -h for all command line options.<ref>More on the Synology NAS Automatically Indexing New Files ("codesourcery" blog, 11/29/2012)
  This includes a Python script for watching for file system changes and triggering the synoindex command.