Move your data to QNAP

easy Takes minutes to set up

Once you have your data out of the big services and cleaned up, it needs to live somewhere you control. This guide covers moving your archive to QNAP.

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Step by step

  1. Create a shared folder

    In QTS, open Control Panel, then Privilege, then Shared Folders, and create a folder for your archive with read and write access.

  2. Connect from your computer

    Enable SMB in Control Panel, then Network and File Services. Map the share on Windows, or use smb://your-nas/sharename on macOS.

  3. Copy the cleaned library in

    Write your organized Year and Month folders into the shared folder.

  4. Index it with QuMagie

    Install QuMagie and add the folder as a source. It builds a photo timeline and can group by people and places on the NAS itself.

  5. Add a backup job

    Use Hybrid Backup Sync to copy the archive to an external drive or a second location.

Worth knowing

Keep the plain folder structure. QuMagie indexes it without changing your files, so the archive stays readable even if you stop using QNAP.