How can I add multiple photos to QuMagie efficiently?

I’m new to QNAP, having just purchased a TS-464, running QTS 5.2.1.2930, with QuMagie 2.4.0. My existing desktop computer is running Linux Mint Debian Edition, with the Shotwell photo organizer. Shotwell stores its photos in a directory tree, organized by year, month, and day. Mine has over 300,000 photo files in over 6000 directories.

How can I import these photos into QuMagie? The user guide I found only explains how to import photos by pointing and clicking, and I’m not going to do that 300,000 times.

I’d like a way to point QuMagie to the directory containing photos and have it recursively search the directory and grab all image files. But I didn’t find a way to do that in the documentation. I found the QuMagie Quick Start Guide, but is there a detailed reference manual that I missed?

If there’s no way built into the GUI to accomplish that, is there a command-line way to add an individual photo? I can easily use the unix “find” command to repeatedly execute a command on each photo, if I could find a command to add a photo. It could be a command I run on my desktop or on the NAS itself.

Getting the photos onto the NAS storage is not a problem – When I backed up my computer to the NAS, I used rsync to copy my computer’s files to a shared folder, and this has already put all of my photos in a directory structure on the NAS. I’d just like a way to get all the photos into QuMagie without selecting each one of them in a GUI.

All I done with mine was goto qumagie settings and edit the content source. All my photos reside in /Multimedia/photo so I selected that for the folder path for qumagie to scan.

I didnt have to do this x amount times. once was enough.

Thanks!!! I didn’t realize that I could just dump the pictures into a directory that the multimedia console knew about, and it would just automatically figure out what to do with them. I thought I would have to somehow inform QuMagie that I was giving it these photos to work with!

I’ve started the process, and it is working. It’s much easier than I thought it would be. It will take a while for the process to complete, but that’s okay.

Thanks again.

–Richard

btw if you have the Coral USB Accelerator, it works with QuMagie for all facial recognition.