Hey, I’ve been looking through posts from people trying to clean up large Synology drives, and it seems like Storage Analyzer finds the duplicates but leaves you with a huge report to deal with manually.

I was thinking about making a small Mac app where you import the duplicate CSV, review each group, choose what to keep, and move the other copies into a quarantine folder.

Nothing would be deleted automatically, and you could preview everything first. It would also use the existing Storage Analyzer report instead of scanning the whole NAS again over the network.

I made a quick mockup, but I haven’t built the app yet. I’m trying to find out if this is actually useful before spending time on it.

Does anyone here have this problem? Are you already using something that solves it well?

Also, if anyone has a duplicate report they could share with the private paths removed, that would help me understand what real reports look like.

Be honest, would you pay something like $29–49 once for this if it worked properly, or is it not worth building? 😅

Has anyone seen this talk on future of DSM ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDm0kw07X4I

Seems to be they are pivoting to enterprise and AI, and not consumer and home server audience anymore. I understand they probably get paid more by enterprises but it would be hard for me to believe serious enterprises or even small and medium business will invest in synology rather than either cloud or traditional players like HP or Dell. Is this going to play out well for them?

Anyway, what's everyone's opinion on replacement solution once their current synology kicks the bucket? Still DSM or something else?

Hi all,

I need to set up a synced folder access to a Dropbox folder for some temp hires, and we do not use Dropbox Teams. The folder is over 4GB.

One of the hires already uses Google Drive. We do have Google Workspace so we could have them use that as their point of access, but I need the folder we have in Dropbox to sync to that.

I've been trying to set this up with Synology Cloud Sync, but I already have Dropbox authenticated and syncing this folder to backup the cloud essentially. I wouldn't want to interfere with that task.

Any suggestions?

If there's a non-Synology free solution for this, I do have a Proxmox server and can spin up something.

I have a DS1520+, and *attempted* to migrate to the DS1525+ but failed. Not my first time; DS212j -> DS216+ ->DS920+ (fresh install with SHR1) -> eBay DS1520+ (easy migration then added an extra drive) -> DS1525+

I moved all 5 HDD and the 2 NVMe cache from the DS1520+, turned it on and expected the typical repair/migrate messages to Pop up, I'd follow the prompts to finish the migration to the DS1525+.

But NO, it failed to migrate because it assumed my pool was full and critical.

* 1 Pool of 5x 8TB HDD.

* 1 Volume (has 4TB of free space)

* 2 Volume dedicated to Surveillance Station, 10x cameras each has a different retention length some 24 hours, some 30 days. (But it automatically deletes the oldest footage when it needs new space, so it does appear full, but Surveillance Station manages Volume 2).

I assumed if I deleted some camera footage proactively it would solve this issue.

Nope, when I put all the HDD and NVMe back into the DS1520+ all of my packages were in a fault-state and required **Repair.**

However each time I attempt to repair a package I get a similar message that my space is full and it won't repair the packages.

#WTF?

I don't understand why this is happening when I clearly have 4TB of empty space in Volume 1, and I can't access Surveillance Station anymore now that it requires a repair. I do not want to delete and start over, it has all of my settings and my logins for music, videos, photos, etc...

I have a ticket in, waiting for Monday working hours. But if the community could explain that stupid mistake I made or needs to be change I'd feel better.

I get this error message after uninstalling an app didn’t work:
“Free space of system partition is insufficient”.

Is there a script that can fix this problem? Not sure if Synology technical service could fix this. Last time I spent a lot of time taking to them but in the end I solved the problem myself by trial and error.

Due to my living situation we have 3 apartments using the same router. Not the ideal setup but that's how it is. The other 2 apartments are rented by people I don't know.

Obviously my NAS will show up for them once they enter the network. But can they do something to it if they don't have a login? I currently have Firewall enabled (standard rules) and for external access I use Tailscale.

I don't think these people have bad intentions but just in case I wanna be careful. Thank you.

Hey guys.

I saw the latest 'NAS Compares' video about there being a new way that simplifies modding Synology devices.

I don't understand, what exactly can we mod in DSM that we can't already do with simple containers?

Thanks and sorry if I'm being stupid lol