By far the best Synology channel. Great, in-depth, and straight-to-the-point tutorials. Thank you. P.S. loving the new format.

Late comment I know - but this is my go to channel, this stuff doesnt come easy to me, and I'm impatient. But I get there far more often and more quickly from here than anywhere else. The written instructin are great. Thanks Frank

Dude, love the new concept!! No surprises with my drive setup, and that’s a good thing. Love to see more of these ‘standard’ apps setups so I can check these with my own setups. Especially interested in your upcoming vid about external accessibility because I use my synology and drive setup a lot away from my own network thru my MacBook, iPhone etc.

THANK. YOU. SO. MUCH! Truly amazing work, helped me set up my Synology Drive with my MacBook. I'll be diving in more to fully configure for my music production business. Been following you for a while and love the new look!

Thanks for excellent content! 👍

Great video, great editing. Got my new 1522+ sitting here, waiting on the drives to be delivered, and watching your vids for some pre-learning.

Excellent video Frank. As always. In depth, clear and concise. I personally love Synology Drive and can even remember using google drive.

You're use case scenario sounds exactly like mine so I want to thank you for this video and detailed instructions. The only major difference is I'm learning and running Linux, Linux Mint to be precise. So far the biggest issue Is establishing a seemless connection to Synology folders from the desktop. Linux wants to mount Synology folders as drives using Samba and there's always a delay. Sometimes it will timeout and freeze if I'm not continually accessing them. Not sure if this is a Linux issue or Samba, I'm still learning. But you've given me some new ideas to try now and I'm feeling encouraged. Thanks again for the info and instructions. Your explanations are invaluable!

I've had a 4 bay synology NAS sitting idle for about 5 years with just old photo backups from previous phones. I added home assistant to it about a year ago but I'm still only using Smartthings

this was very useful for me, thank you for your perfect work.

Outstanding video As always! A pleasure to watch.

Another great video. Continuing my learning. Still drinking from a fire hose 😂

This new format really works IMO - fantastic upload, thank you. I'd be really interested to hear your thoughts on Synology C2 Cloud Password Manager. I noticed you're using what looks like a Logitech Brio 4K webcam that has Windows Hello enabled - I nearly bought one of these expensive cameras just so I could log into C2 Password Manager with my face rather than typing in my Master Password so often.

Por fin puedo ver el rostro de la persona que siempre nos habla claro detrás de cámara!!! Saludos Caballero!

back at it again👍

I can relate what you described. I went off from Google to my NAS using Drive, Photos + Synology office. This basically replaced any dependency of google cloud services. Using VPN gives me access anywere from the world to it. For me at least the NAS already payed for it vs paying google for storage. P.S. in Synology drive client you can sync individual folders. This is awesome in case you run it across multiple machines and don't need every folder to sync in you Home folder. P.P.S using the backup feature is great, I use it to Sync specific folder from my PC that serves as Home folder for my work. Why you may ask? That's because before I had the NAS this folder structure existed but I wanted to have it backed in case my work laptop dies. The only negative is that you can have only 1 backup task. I believe that's because Synology intended this feature as backup for a whole Folder structure of your machine.

Nice video. I've recently started moving over to Synology drive from SMB shares. What are your thoughts on the "homes" folder usage vs. separate SMB "shared folders" which are permission locked to one user. Synology Drive does have the 'selective sync' which, unlike SMB, can allow you to keep a local copy of certain files. SMB permissions on a shared drive are probably the easiest to manage. Note: I use some shared drives as actual shared drives with multiple users accessing them (e.g. family photos), whereas other drives are specific only to a user.

I appreciate your vids - very helpful! I'm enjoying Synology Sync but it is a little difficult when you're dealing with staff who can access some subfolders and other staff can access others - maybe a future video? Question: Can syn users actually collaborate on a document/spreadsheet the way they can in Google Drive? I need at least a few people editing the same doc at the same time. Thanks for your help.

Hey man, absolutely loving your clear and direct info on the Synology system. I am trying to understand the difference between Synology Drive and Tailscale. From your videos and how you speak so highly of both, I have now downloaded them both. But specifically for remote access to the NAS, which is better? Are they even for the same purpose or same thing? Can I run them at the same time also? They both seem to have encrypted capabilities, but thats as much as I understand. Thanks again.

Thks so much for this video, how to make thats synology nas accessable from local network to public internet access?thks so much

Frank, I don't do a lot of remote work but Synology Drive really intrigues me. Occasionally, when I need a file when I'm away from home, I use Tailscale VPN to login in either with my browser or Windows file explorer. Once I make that connection, will the Synology Drive on my remote laptop automatically sync with my Synology NAS back home or is there something else that needs to be done ?

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Another great video. Thanks

I would like if there was a video which explains how to sync (backup) Drive, which is on my DS220+, with my old DS115 which is on different location (different network). So far I didn't find any video which explained how to do it. Btw. new format is great, keep doing videos this way, they're more interesting to watch 👍

Thank you for creating such an illustrious and detailed video clip with explanation. Truly appreciate your work. Your inspiration for a personal cloud makes me curious to migrate from Google Drive and Onedrive. I do have doubts in mind that I would like to ask for your kind answers. Since I'm totally new to NAS and Synology comes up top in my Google search. Your video has been very helpful. Please allow me to ask a dumb question. I now have USB external hard drive (Western Digital Passport 4TB and Seagate Backup Plus Silm 1TB) with me and would like to put it to good use to save some money, of course. So I'm curious to buy Synology ds120j (1 bay with 2 usb ports) and use two of my external hard drives without any internal hdd. I'm wondering if this will work or does it need any tweaks to spice it up. I really love Synology Drive and the way it works, especially when you describe it as an app you cannot live without. Thank you very much in advance for your kind consideration. Please keep up your great work ^_^

Amazing video!

Curious..what's the difference between this and just using NFS share.. I share a folder, and access it from explorer or linux file tool.. enter creds and map/star/link to it so I can open it up anytime easily. Is there any benefit to the Synology Drive vs direct folder access on NAS?

I currently have two shared folders for Media and Personal. But after watching this, it seems like it would make more sense to move those folders into the newly created home folder instead? My thinking is that it would just look cleaner to have one Sync task from Synology Drive to show 'My Drive' instead of having two tasks (ie Locations in MacOS Finder) for each shared folder. Is there a disadvantage to this setup I'm not seeing? If this setup does make sense, would there be any reason to consider moving all my other root folders into the home folder as well (ie docker, PlexMediaServer, Time Machine backups, etc.) or should these remain untouched? I am also the only user on my NAS if that context helps.

Thanks for this great video. Could you perhaps give me a hint why I can't see my nextcloud folders in Backup or Sync Task of Synology Drive Client. I want to backup of course the data of my nextcloud folders to my Synology NAS. Thanks a lot in advance.

Great instructional video, as always! Do you have any experience with Bit Defender reading "false negatives" from Synology sync folders? I use Synology Drive (love it). When I was away in June and accessing and updating files, I started to received daily messages about how Bit Defender had found threats and was removing the threat. Further indication indicates the threats are found in temporary Synology files - thousands of them. They are showing up in the Synology Drive temp folder. When I run a full scan, Bit defender doesn't find anything. Any suggestions?

New DS1821+ user and a new channel subscriber here. I’m finding your Synology related content to be very helpful. Thank you! Quick question: Is there any relationship between snapshot versioning if enabled and the versioning done by Synology Drive?

Hi!. Is there a way to select versioning per user or if you enable it is for ALL users?.

Hello, thank you for the video... Can you please help me with my issue i can't access my files when i am in a different network! Is it something that has to do with port forwording?

Well explained, loved your vid! I am too sure the warning message you have got when you enabled the Team Folder, which says that "please do not mount remote folder or virtual drive in team folder which already been enabled". Does this mean if you already have a network mapped folder through SMB, then we shouldn't enable the same folder as Team Folder for sharing files though the Synology Drive Client? I have shared folder remotely located in office that is mapped to all local PCs locally in the office, but I also use VPN to access those files from home remotely through SMB map drives, it is not as crispy as working locally in the office, so I am thinking if Synology drive would be faster since all files are synced to my local PC then synced back to office file server. I am not too sure if this brings conflicts using SMB and Synology Drive at the same time. Thanks!

Question. If I have a Desktop and a Laptop would you create a sync job for each for maybe Documents, Videos, etc or can you share the same NAS share with two machines so they always stay in sync?

Great. How would I go about properly setting up the synology box & my router to have a secure access to it over the internet?

I am interested in buying the 923+. My question is can I plug the Ethernet cord into my Orbi satellite? My router and modem are on the 1st floor and my Desktop is on the 2nd floor. I do have an Orbi satellite next to my Desktop.

How do you rename the "Drive" folder stored in the home directory share? I'd prefer it was named "SynologyDrive" in my home folders on the NAS.

Is there a way for me to have a temp save, where it doesn't take up my device space, but it also won't be using all of my data. For example, I would l8ke to be able to watch videos in an "offline" mode, similar to the way YT all9ws for offline vid playback or similar to any streaming service that offers an offline connection feature.

Hi, if the NAS is connected to the C2 cloud, what happens if the NAS is switched off?great content

Thanks. As the electricity supply in my part of the UK is proving to be a bit unreliable. Please cover uninterruptible power supply or UPS Power Supply. I was told to fit one the other day by my Synology NAS in an error report.! It's part two of the set-up, keeping it running reliably. I also discovered Data scrubbing, but how, when etc, is a mystery.

If I’m working with a remote editor, can I share a folder with that person so that she can add say photos or sound effects to it which will then automatically download to my NAS?

COMPLEX Question: I wanna mirror all of my Desktop PC files (4TB with music, pictures), and at a certain point 👉 I will switch to a Laptop with mostly projects/work files which I will want to mirror as well to my NAS, yet, it will be Asymmetrical since I won't carry all of that 4TB data of music/pictures with me on that laptop. So I don't want Synology to erase those 4TB from my desktop PC, since it won't "see them" on my Laptop. How can Synology Drive /or/ "Active Backup for Business" Apps- help me pull it off? Is it possible to have data that isn't mirrored and data that is mirrored at the same folder even?

I've been using this for a while only certain things don't make sense. Example. I have a folder titled Sina on my pc which is synced to my nas. I also have drive on my phone syncing my photos. However, I can't find them anywhere on my nas. Go figure!

Is there a way to get a notification that a file is in use by another user when it is opened? when using synology drive client not smb share

Hey man, thank you so much for the video it is perfect and informative, we are going to use it daily. By any chance can you help with the bare metal backup? Thank you.

Hey Brother, I'm somewhat of a newb so wanted to that you for the incredible information that you share here, I refer to your “Goldmine” channel almost daily. I’m in somewhat of a pinch at the current moment and hoping you could help me with a question that I haven't been able to find a clear answer to? I will say that I wish that I had run across this video before setting up the SynD client because I now have (2) different SynD folders in my (C) drive, and another SynD folder that shows up under Quick Access, including a couple more folders which are desktop shortcuts. Over time files have been dragged over into these (C) drive folders or desktop shortcuts and it would appear that most files have been synced to the NAS. However, being a newb and having over 10TB of data I can’t honestly be for certain. My question is, now that I know that I totally jacked the SynD setup, I was wondering if I were to totally delete Synology Drive from my PC and start over with the setup, would I lose all the data that currently is located and/or appears in the (C) drive folders or desktop SynD shortcut folders? My thought is that all the data has been synced to the NAS so I'm all good, however, over time, months, I have received several errors when transferring data either when dragging over to the NAS or during the sync process that says the file name is too long and I had to select skip. I'd love to know how to alter the setting that is restricting file name length on both the NAS & windows PC because it's incredibly frustrating. I was hoping that we could possibly schedule a brief call to talk shop, but if not any advice and/or direction you could provide would be greatly appreciated. Dan Gibbs Licensed Public Adjuster Mobile: 727.476.7682 Email: Dan@Integrity.claims Commercial & Residential Claim Advocates

Thanks for the detailed explanation. Pretty lame that i have to enable home folders to use it, and that i need a fixed ip address, would have been great if they used synology connect account to simplyfy things. Might as well just set up VPN n my firewall/router and windows local cache for the same result.

Cloud aside is there any benefit to using it locally versus SMB shares? I heavily use SMB locally and I can’t really see how Synology Drive fits in…

Hey man. I really want Synology Drive to work but it seems to be buggy for my on Mac OS. I’ve been trying to “pin local copy permanently” but after a few files download the remainder stop. I have to highlight all the remaining files that didn’t download, unpin and then repin to start the process again for there only to be a few that download. I have to keep doing this until everything has downloaded. It’s to the point where it’s so bad that I don’t see it as an efficient way to work. I have found some articles online/Reddit suggesting SD is not perfect on Mac but wondered if you have experienced this and could suggest some tips for me to try? Thank you

Nice speakers. :)

Any theory if/when Synology will retire DS File? DS File seems unnecessary now that Drive can sync and access NAS files.

Thanks for the video. Anyone got “connection failed” after installing the SD client in Windows 10? Tried port 6690 on router and allowing the client in defender firewall. Nothing seems to work 😢

synology Quick connect really help me to access remotely from home. login using id and everything sync

Hi... When I try to sync second folder it keep showing "this directory cannot be synced because one of the subfolders in the directory is being used in an existing sync task".... I need to sync 10-12 different folders from teamfolder please help me with this

Hi, one question, video thumbnails does not show in client drive, its a pain in the ass having to open the files to look at them, I have been looking for a solution without any luck, any suggestion? thank you

A couple of questions: 1. Why would you want to use On Demand sync when a mapped network folder gives you exactly the same thing but faster and without using extra resources in the form of Syn. Drive client and Server? 2. To my, possibly naïve, mind, it makes much more sense to use this software to allow you to access a local file stored on a fast SSD much more quickly than having a copy on a slower NAS filled with slower HDDs, which is what most NAS boxes typically have. Synchronisation between local drive and NAS can then happen in the background. Does this not make sense? 3. Doesn't it make sense having any shared folders mapped directly to a separate drive on my PC(s) rather than being forced to embed them in a folder called SynologyDrive on that drive? After all, the software is perfectly well able to do without an extra layer of folders on the shared folders on the NAS, so why does it need that folder on you local drive(s)? again, IMHO, the user interface is clunky and unforgiving of mistakes, so after a whole day of messing around with it last week, I gave up and binned it and cannot understand why so many people on KZfaq sing its praises, as I think it's a great idea very poorly thought out and implemented.

Off topic but what computer speakers are those?

I am using Synology since 2 years. But I am not able to Do speedy Download or uploads, even after hooking up with 500Mbps internet !!! Plz help, the max Speed I am getting when downloading via other device is 500-700 Kbps only !!!

t you🙏

This software conflicts with my device and replicated it on other devices. Not sure if it is Nivida or MSI specifically. I will research further.

Is there a feature to ignore a certain file or folder? Or better yet, an option to ignore EVERY folder named "node_modules"?

Can Synology drive and OneDrive co-exist on a folder?

One thing to consider carefully before committed to fully move from Google Drive to Synology Drive is those suite of Google web apps and their tight integration with Google Drive. For example, you could create Google My Maps files from your Google Drive and be able to open your maps directly from it. Aso those suite of office apps like Google Doc, Google Sheet, etc. that may have a different level of features support comparing to Synology Office app.

I can’t seem to open a spreadsheet and edit it on my phone like I can with having the file on Dropbox….. any ideas ?

Don't forget Synology Photo's mobile as one of the best synology apps. A bit offtopic offcourse. Nice to see your face for the first time. I must say I had a completely other idea who you would be. But I am affraid to say 😂 (Much older).

I think there are three good applications for such a syncing-approach: 1. Large files that require random access (e.g., video files) and from multiple devices. For those it is good to have them locally, as well as on a shared location. 2. Sharing files with users outside your network. For the latter Google Drive (or similar) is much better. 3. Being able to work on files while being completely offline. For anything else, I find it easier and less storage redundant to use Samba shares. Perhaps there is a fourth reason for a syncing-approach which is to cover devices that cannot handle Samba shares (like phones). I like Google Drive, as it supports collaboration with users outside my network and allows me to work on the files while I'm offline. As I don't have any need for "1." above and "2." is not supported by NAS-based syncing, and I don't need to non-local copies of files that I'm not sharing with users on other networks, I don't think Synology Drive makes any sense for me. Am I missing something? FWIW, your videos are really good, but to round this one off, I think it needed a section as to when a Samba share is just sufficient or even the better solution.

How it works with MAC OS

Dumb question. What is the little tablet sized light on your desk?

Synology Drive is great. However, no one can offer me a solution as to why my Android phone fails to connect using its Synology Drive app when the desktop client functions correctly. Forum posts I've seen suggest this is a problem for the Android app that appears not to have any solution. Synology support simply say it works for them, which is not helpful at all. I am at my wits end as to why it won't connect using a phone. One thing I saw was to disable Private DNS within the network settings on the phone. Doing this doesn't solve the issue. There is something fundamentally wrong and no one can tell me what. Has anyone here had a similar issue?

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I freaking deleted the homes folder.... how can I get it back without losing all information on drive

or just setup WEBDAV and integrate your folder to file explorer

But, painfully slow! (On entry level NAS)

Made that as clear as MUD

Thks buts synology drive is just too complicated for me. Really the concept of local client caching of a remote NAS data is straight-forward. However I never came across a good top-down explanation of synology drive yet.

I’m sorry but this is a bit confusing. You’re covering so much ground so quickly it’s leaving me unclear about the concepts.

Synology Drive Client v. 3.4.0 15724 Can't sync desktop.ini My Synology Drive Client has stoped syncing the files beacuse it can't sync desktop.ini. I have excluded desktop.ini and *.ini in Synology Drive client and in Synology Drive admincenter. But it still try to sync desktop.ini. There is not help with this error. pls need help. necesito ayuda!!!!