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Hi
I've been trying to setup a Synology Ezcloud client on my brandnew MacBook Air, so that I never have to worry about backing up my local datafiles.
Here's what I have done:
- Setup the Synology Ezcloud client on an EMPTY folder (1st. time setup requires an empty folder, or it won't work)
- Place the empty folder at '/Users/dorthejakobsen/My Cloud Station'
- Config finished.
- Move ALL of my folders at '/Users/dorthejakobsen/*' (pictures, music, etc.) into that new folder so that the Synology Ezcloud client starts backing up all of my datafiles.
- Setup the Mac HOME directory into the newly created '/Users/dorthejakobsen/My Cloud Station' so that I never have to worry where I put my files - they will be backed up anyways.
- Finished.
BUT - somethings gone wrong! And it's unexplicable....
The Synology Ezcloud client backs up fine UNTIL the HOME directory is changed into '/Users/dorthejakobsen/My Cloud Station'.
Once its changed into '/Users/dorthejakobsen/My Cloud Station' + reboot, the Synology Ezcloud client doesn't even startup.
Is this normal?
What I REALLY wasnt to achieve is for my Synology Ezcloud client to back up ALL my files in the background.
![Synology Synology](/uploads/1/2/6/6/126605575/265612611.jpg)
Please remember it cannot be installed into a directory where existing files already are present - that's why I'm messing with setuo of the default HOME directory.
Any help will be appreciated.
br. Dorthe
MacBook Air, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.1)
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Looking back, 2009 was kind of a bad year. Somewhere around then we were in the tail end of the Great Recession, Google had turned Evil, and, in retrospect, Apple’s glory days were behind it.
I miss the old Apple. It wasn’t perfect, but it shielded me from a lot of hassles. Like dealing with the complexity of my Synology NAS.
I bought the NAS because Apple’s Time Capsule is broken. Next I started using it as a post-server replacement for Apple’s perennially broken network shares. That’s all I bothered with. I didn’t want to bother my NAS, and I didn’t want it to bother me.
Then, inevitably, there was an update. It took me a while to figure out that Control Panel:System:Info showed the version number: DSM 6.0-7321.
Oh, great. A complete version update. I #$@$#!# never install those. I’d turn off auto-update, but at this point the damage is done. I’m going to need the big bug fixes; I’ll turn it off in a month or two.
Meanwhile both Time Machine and my Client-Server NAS file sync are broken. I’ll fix Time Machine next, this is about fixing the file sync.
Notice I’m not naming the file sync? That’s because Synology, a Chinese company, uses English words inconsistently. They add and remove “Cloud” to everything and seem to move software names between products on a whim. I think I’ve seen File Sync, Cloud Station Drive, Cloud Station Sync, Cloud Station Server and Cloud Station Client used to refer to similar or identical things.
What I wanted was to update “Cloud Station Drive” running on my Mac, which is actually Cloud Station Server Client, to a version compatible with “Cloud Station Server” running on my Synology NAS. Notice neither of these actually have anything to do with a “Cloud”, they’re both LAN specific.
Synology Mac Address
This document helped: Sync files between NAS and computer Network Attached Storage (NAS)
Here’s what I did:
- Quit outdated client on my Mac.
- Start Synology Assistant to locate FLNAS (IP Address), open it.
- Go to Package Center, All, find Cloud Station Server, click Open (alt: click the four-square-icon next to question mark to see running apps)
- Click Overview (sometimes this is empty, quit and start over again)
- Download Cloud Station Drive
- Install
It seems to be working. I’ll use the DMG to update my other machines.
Next up: Fix Time Machine. It and Synology are disagreeing about how much space is free in the user-quota for my MacBook Air …
Update 8/23/2016: Synology Cloud Station Server / Cloud Drive is broken again. I think it’s worse in El Capitan than Yosemite. I’ve given up on it.