User`s guide
Synology DiskStation User's Guide
Based on DSM 4.1
104 Chapter 12: Share Photos, Videos, and Blogs with Photo Station
To allow users to download albums:
1 Go to Settings and click the Photos tab.
2 Tick Allow users to download album.
3 Click Save.
To download an album:
1 When you are on Photo Station's home page, click an album cover to enter the album's thumbnail page(s).
2 Choose More > Download.
3 In the window that appears, do any of the following:
Choose Download all to download the entire album as a zip file.
Choose Select items to download, select the items you want to download and click OK. (Press and hold
Shift or Ctrl while making multiple selections.)
Your selections will be downloaded as a zip file.
Reorder Albums
1 Go to Settings and click the Photos tab.
2 Do any of the following:
Choose the number of albums per page from the Albums per page drop-down menu.
Choose Ascending or Descending from the Sort by folder name drop-down menu to sort albums in
ascending or descending order.
Choose Sort by preference, click Rearrange, click OK, and then drag any album to change its order.
3 Click Save.
Set Album's Privacy Settings
1 Go to Settings and click the Photos tab.
2 Click Access Permissions and tick the checkboxes under any of the following headers:
Public: The album can be seen by all viewers.
Private: The album can be accessed by user accounts with proper access permissions.
Password: If you select this option, enter a password under the Password header. The album will be
locked unless viewers enter the correct password to unlock the album.
3 Click Save.
Enable Virtual Album
Photo Station allows you to display the most recent photos and videos in virtual albums, which will be listed in
front of all the other albums on the Photos page.
To enable virtual album:
1 Go to Settings and click the Photos tab.
2 Click Virtual Album.
3 Tick the checkboxes to enable any of the following virtual albums:
Recent photos
Recent videos
Recently commented photos
Recently commented videos
People tag
Geotag
Descriptive tag
Note: If you have ticked People tag, a virtual album containing unconfirmed people tags will appear with the
album name: To-be-confirmed Album.