'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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.