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Hi Guys,
I have a client who does photography at dance festivals. They have a NAS set up with 6 viewing laptops and a main computer all on a gigabit local network. As they take the pictures, the photos are uploaded onto the NAS from the main computer, and all the viewing computers are mapped to the NAS and automatically display new pictures, so that the performers and audience can browse through the shots taken at the viewing stations. By the end of the festival, there can be upwards of 1TB of pictures stored on the NAS, all broken down into subfolders based on what time slot the pictures were taken.
These guys called me to assist them because performance was abysmal (they were using Windows Explorer to view the thumbnails, and it would take hours to load them all). I installed Picasa on all of the viewing computers, set it to watch the NAS, and it worked amazingly. It was extremely fast, and it worked great all of last year.
However, at the start of this festival season, it began to simply stop updating the picture library on some of the laptops, requiring the application to be restarted at random to properly see new photos. Some festivals would go without issue, and some would require constant Picasa restarts at random. Apparently this is a common problem with Picasa, and there is not much that can be done about it (Since there is no way to manually refresh other than closing and re-opening the application).
I have tried numerous other programs (InfranView, FastStone, JpegView, Imagine, probably others) but none of them work as efficently as Picasa. There are often long delays when navigating the pictures, and long delays when trying to view them. So, I am hoping that somebody might have a suggestion for software that is more tailored for efficiently viewing JPEG images that are stored on the network. (No editing capability required)
It is a Synology NAS, and the viewing computers are a combination of Windows 7 & 10.
Thanks in Advance
I have a client who does photography at dance festivals. They have a NAS set up with 6 viewing laptops and a main computer all on a gigabit local network. As they take the pictures, the photos are uploaded onto the NAS from the main computer, and all the viewing computers are mapped to the NAS and automatically display new pictures, so that the performers and audience can browse through the shots taken at the viewing stations. By the end of the festival, there can be upwards of 1TB of pictures stored on the NAS, all broken down into subfolders based on what time slot the pictures were taken.
These guys called me to assist them because performance was abysmal (they were using Windows Explorer to view the thumbnails, and it would take hours to load them all). I installed Picasa on all of the viewing computers, set it to watch the NAS, and it worked amazingly. It was extremely fast, and it worked great all of last year.
However, at the start of this festival season, it began to simply stop updating the picture library on some of the laptops, requiring the application to be restarted at random to properly see new photos. Some festivals would go without issue, and some would require constant Picasa restarts at random. Apparently this is a common problem with Picasa, and there is not much that can be done about it (Since there is no way to manually refresh other than closing and re-opening the application).
I have tried numerous other programs (InfranView, FastStone, JpegView, Imagine, probably others) but none of them work as efficently as Picasa. There are often long delays when navigating the pictures, and long delays when trying to view them. So, I am hoping that somebody might have a suggestion for software that is more tailored for efficiently viewing JPEG images that are stored on the network. (No editing capability required)
It is a Synology NAS, and the viewing computers are a combination of Windows 7 & 10.
Thanks in Advance
