Let’s say I have 10 folders in my file system, each containing 100 photos. How can I create a single album that won’t display all 1,000 photos at once, but will instead contain the same 10 sections?
Not sure if I understand your question 100%? How are you viewing these images? I store my images under multimedia by year. If I open QuMagie I see a timeline that displays all of my pictures regardless of the folder that they’re in.
It sounds like you’re asking for a way to display only the images in a particular folder? If I’m understanding your question correctly I don’t think there’s a way for you to exclude display of some images that all exist in one album.
Use QMagie. Don’t just try to view them in File Station.
I think you were a bit hasty in your answer. The tags clearly indicate the question is about Qumagie
shadowsports, thanks! I’ll try to explain. I organize my files by country (country = folder). I visit some countries multiple times.For example, I want to create an album about Africa: everything is jumbled together, without any division into countries. That’s why I want to see a folder tree inside the album, like a file system. Then I’ll open the part of the album I need at the moment.
I did not look at the tags in the forum. My expectation is that people will clearly state in their request what application they are speaking of. Many times people don’t use tags.
That said, you should be able to create Tags in QMagie and then create an album based on the tags. So in your example, you wanted to create an album of pictures from Africa. So here’s what you do:
1.) Tag all of your Africa pictures was “Africa” or however you want to tag them.
2.) Create a smart album based on the tags.
See my example here. I tagged several photos of my trip to Italy from last year. And I created a smart album:
Now it would be nice if QMagie would allow you to create an album based on the coordinates/location in the picture. You can already view things by “Places” in Explore. But it’s very granular and not be things like Country, City, etc.
I hope this helps.
If I do as you say, the photos in the Africa album won’t be grouped by country, but will simply be shuffled and sorted by date. I’m trying to recreate the look I used before at the PhotoStation(syn), which was very convenient.
I get it. I was just looking at how you might be able to do this and I agree, I can’t figure it out either. You could add tags for both continent and country but then I’m still not sure how it would group them. And I don’t think you can create a photo album that is based on other albums.’
I think you have a good feature request.
Frankly, I’m very disappointed with the product as a whole. Competitors have had good implementations for years. Do better! No, we’re going in a different direction. It looks very unfinished.Good hardware with unfinished software.
I could easily be wrong, but I don’t think these “add ons” were ever intended to be anything other than minimalistic marketing checkbox basic offerings.
Anyone serious about multimedia, video, audio, images, etc would have an external solution that is portable across platforms and devices.
I sincerely hope you didn’t buy a NAS based on it’s ability (or lack thereof) to access your photo collection.
Invest in a standalone picture app (free (dedicated) or paid) that has the capabilities that you want. Then no matter what backend stores the data, your images and and metadata that you create can be backed up and transferred in the future. Just use your NAS for what it was really intended, file storage.
Sorry to be negative, but this of course is just my opinion.
Well, @dosborne, you usually are negative regarding just about everything “extra” on QNAP! 
QMagie is actually a pretty nice photo application. But it’s new and needs additional features added to it. This is one of them.
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I have moved the topic to ‘multimedia’ sub category now.
I have seen people praise Immich Container as an QMagie alternative, you need at least a mid tier NAS for that though (NAS model of OP is sadly unknown)
Agreed. I’m old school and think a NAS should be just a NAS, file storage 
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Nope. Much more capable than that. In your case an ARM core device would work great. Not for me, I want something that is an appliance and capable of much more.
@dosborne, look at how the devices are positioned and advertised. I don’t see anything strange about people buying them to access and store their collections. And considering the manufacturer is also adding AI with facial recognition… My previous NAS, with similar functionality, has been working for over 10 years. So far, I believe I made a mistake by trusting the hype without checking the details. I figured things could only get better in that time. I hope the impressions of the first week are deceptive and I’ll be able to adapt it to my needs.
Hypes about ‘public cloud’ have also led to thousands of ransomware infections, don’t blindly believe every hype.
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@Vlad21 - I would file a feature request for what you would like to see. There’s a feature request category in the forums here. I’ll gladly vote for your request. The QNAP team seems to be pretty responsive to at least submitting the requests to their development team for consideration.
As someone who develops software myself, I’m constantly amazed at ideas customers have that I did not even think of. Many of the features I have are because customers asked for them. I am also amazed at the myriad ways that customers figure out how to break your software but that’s another story!
I’m still new here, where can I find this form?
Create a new Topic and select Feature as the category. After you make the post, there will be a “vote” button where people can vote on your idea.
Thanks, I’ve posted it. I hope I explained it clearly.
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