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Recently I installed Ubuntu 24.04. That all went fine. The only thing I can't get done is accessing the Synology NAS from photo editing programs. The NAS is accessible via 'files' and the files are readable. I can also open photos in the various photo editors via the right mouse button with 'open with'. That works of course, but is very cumbersome and I can't import the photos into the library of the editor that way. Does anyone know how I can solve this?

This question is not about mounting the NAS I can do that. I can access it and see the maps and files and open them in the desired application (by right clicking on the file and choosing 'open with'). But I can not access the NAS from an opened application such as an photo editor. I also tried it from windows programs running on Wine, same result. Trying to access the NAS thrue the application is impossible, the directories don't show the network, the NAS or maps and files.

Hans de Ruiter
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Problem is solved. I asked the same question on Discourse Ubuntu en got this answer:

The first thing that comes to mind is using a symlink. Find the folder path of your nas pictures on your machine and save that for later. Then open your home folder in a terminal. Since your home folder shows in the image editor, that tells me you could create a symlink there and the image editor would see it.

cd ~/
#Change your nasfolder path to the actual path
ln -s /your/nasfolder /home/hans-de-ruiter/Pictures/nasPictures


This will not duplicate the files, just create a logical pointer or “shortcut” to where your NAS stuff actually is.
Hans de Ruiter
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