'Conversion' process stuck - Synology DS112j

philstanbridge · 20 Mar 2015 at 08:48

Very frustrating this but for some reason since I moved house my nas is getting stuck during the file conversion phase. It would seem to halt upon every other jpeg and/or folder I have and I've tens of thousands of photos. This kills the processing power of the box and slows it down to a crawl. I can pause the file conversion but this doesn't fix it. Has anyone come across this type of problem? It does seem reasonably common but I don't know how to fix it on this scale.

bledd · 20 Mar 2015 at 08:49

Conversion? What/why is it converting things?

philstanbridge · 20 Mar 2015 at 08:51

That's a good question and I don't fully understand it. I think it might be trying to convert the files into some kind of Linux file format for compression purposes but I can't be sure.

Edit: Okay, it seems to be something to do with thumbnail creation.

bledd · 20 Mar 2015 at 08:54

Just read up on it, it's part of the 'Photo Station' server.

On mine I've not used any special media shares, I just created the shared folders manually..

http://www.ocmodshop.com/how-to-fix-100-cpu-usage-on-synology-diskstation-nas/

Says here how to disable the photo station server.

Check all your packages are up to date and the OS. May be more info or a fix for the actual Photo Server on the Synology forums.

On mine I manually set up the following..

\\nas\music (read only)
\\nas\movies (read only)
\\nas\photos (read only)

Then on another user account on my pc, it has write access to these folders.

philstanbridge · 20 Mar 2015 at 09:02

Thanks mate. It's a bit confusing. I have my photos on the photos share so I don't want to hide this area before i can copy the files over do I? I'm also not that familiar with Putty.

bledd · 20 Mar 2015 at 09:17

What I would do..

Create another folder \temppics\

Chuck them all in there, uninstall Photo Station, create a new share \pictures\ or something, then drag them all into there.

First thing I did was remove all the default shares on mine.

philstanbridge · 20 Mar 2015 at 09:28

Yep I agree. I've actually just removed the photo station package and I can see that conversion process that was in the corner of the screen has disappeared. However, to move the photos will take over a day apparently as I have many hundreds of GB's worth. The nas is also taking an eternity to do anything, particularly logging in. I don't know the best way to move the pics. I'm also wireless which doesn't help but when I connect via ethernet it won't let me see the nas. I think I've a number of different issues here, all since moving.

bledd · 20 Mar 2015 at 09:50

Nas is wireless or pc is wireless?

Get the ethernet up and running on it, set it to DHCP and then tell your router to give it a reserved address so it always has the same IP.

philstanbridge · 20 Mar 2015 at 10:58

PC is wireless. But I've just wired it into the Sky router. Sky router can see that I have connected but I cannot see the NAS.

Edit: Hmmm, it seems to be working.

philstanbridge · 21 Mar 2015 at 01:37

Okay files finally copied over. But disk utlization is still 100%. Hmmm

SimonC · 21 Mar 2015 at 15:59

Open resource monitor and click process, might show you something.

Or it could be doing a virus scan?

philstanbridge · 21 Mar 2015 at 18:02

Yeah I took a look. It was the cloud station causing the secondary problem. So I disabled it. Annoying all these software problems. I won't be going Synology again.