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Adding Synology folders to Koala, Drambo, etc

mistercharliemistercharlie
in General App Discussion

Koala and Drambo let you add folders to their built-in browsers, which works great with Dropbox and iCloud. But I can't add folders from my Synology server. I can browse to the folders, but I the button to add them is always greyed out.

Any ideas why? It's not just these apps. It's all apps that can add folders.

Comments

  • wimwim

    Dropbox and iCloud have file providers for iOS. How are you attaching to the Synthology server?

    I was able to attach an SMB share to Koala just now.

  • wimwim
    edited March 14

    I don’t think I understand what you’re trying to do in Drambo as far as “adding a location”. I’m able to import folders from SMB shares though.

  • espiegel123espiegel123

    @mistercharlie said:
    Koala and Drambo let you add folders to their built-in browsers, which works great with Dropbox and iCloud. But I can't add folders from my Synology server. I can browse to the folders, but I the button to add them is always greyed out.

    Any ideas why? It's not just these apps. It's all apps that can add folders.

    My understanding is that this is an OS limitation related to the way that file system references are handled. You can't favorite locations on Synology or many other network servers, either (unfortunately).

  • SamuSamu

    @wim said:
    Dropbox and iCloud have file providers for iOS. How are you attaching to the Synthology server?

    I was able to attach an SMB share to Koala just now.

    This is what I do all the time, ie. directly mount/attach the Synology NAS (or my Mac) using regular SMB in the Files.app.
    Never been a fan of the Synology Apps...

  • wimwim

    @espiegel123 said:

    @mistercharlie said:
    Koala and Drambo let you add folders to their built-in browsers, which works great with Dropbox and iCloud. But I can't add folders from my Synology server. I can browse to the folders, but I the button to add them is always greyed out.

    Any ideas why? It's not just these apps. It's all apps that can add folders.

    My understanding is that this is an OS limitation related to the way that file system references are handled. You can't favorite locations on Synology or many other network servers, either (unfortunately).

    SMB shares attach fine in my recent tests.

  • wimwim
    edited March 14

    @Samu said:

    @wim said:
    Dropbox and iCloud have file providers for iOS. How are you attaching to the Synthology server?

    I was able to attach an SMB share to Koala just now.

    This is what I do all the time, ie. directly mount/attach the Synology NAS (or my Mac) using regular SMB in the Files.app.
    Never been a fan of the Synology Apps...

    Koala can add network folders and sub-folders as locations in its sample browser. Drambo can import samples. Both wor in standalone and as a plugin in Loopy Pro.

  • espiegel123espiegel123

    @wim said:

    @espiegel123 said:

    @mistercharlie said:
    Koala and Drambo let you add folders to their built-in browsers, which works great with Dropbox and iCloud. But I can't add folders from my Synology server. I can browse to the folders, but I the button to add them is always greyed out.

    Any ideas why? It's not just these apps. It's all apps that can add folders.

    My understanding is that this is an OS limitation related to the way that file system references are handled. You can't favorite locations on Synology or many other network servers, either (unfortunately).

    SMB shares attach fine in my recent tests.

    Wow! That's great news. Something changed since I last tried this. I just checked and Koala is letting me add a folder from my Synology NAS and the link still works after reboot as long as the server is available. I tried under iOS 18.

  • wimwim
    edited March 14

    @espiegel123 said:

    @wim said:

    @espiegel123 said:

    @mistercharlie said:
    Koala and Drambo let you add folders to their built-in browsers, which works great with Dropbox and iCloud. But I can't add folders from my Synology server. I can browse to the folders, but I the button to add them is always greyed out.

    Any ideas why? It's not just these apps. It's all apps that can add folders.

    My understanding is that this is an OS limitation related to the way that file system references are handled. You can't favorite locations on Synology or many other network servers, either (unfortunately).

    SMB shares attach fine in my recent tests.

    Wow! That's great news. Something changed since I last tried this. I just checked and Koala is letting me add a folder from my Synology NAS and the link still works after reboot as long as the server is available. I tried under iOS 18.

    Yeah, I thought I remembered it didn’t work too, but tried just to be sure, and to my surprise, it worked. iOS 26 (SMB share on Raspberry Pi server).

  • mistercharliemistercharlie

    @wim said:
    Dropbox and iCloud have file providers for iOS. How are you attaching to the Synthology server?

    The Synology Drive app puts a file provider in the Files sidebar.

    I was able to attach an SMB share to Koala just now.

    I’ll give that a go. The advantage of Synology Drive is that it can sync a folder from the server to the iPad, and the iPad folder is available offline.

    @espiegel123 said:
    My understanding is that this is an OS limitation related to the way that file system references are handled. You can't favorite locations on Synology or many other network servers, either (unfortunately).

    :(

  • espiegel123espiegel123

    @mistercharlie said:

    @wim said:
    Dropbox and iCloud have file providers for iOS. How are you attaching to the Synthology server?

    The Synology Drive app puts a file provider in the Files sidebar.

    I was able to attach an SMB share to Koala just now.

    I’ll give that a go. The advantage of Synology Drive is that it can sync a folder from the server to the iPad, and the iPad folder is available offline.

    @espiegel123 said:
    My understanding is that this is an OS limitation related to the way that file system references are handled. You can't favorite locations on Synology or many other network servers, either (unfortunately).

    :(

    FWIW, I don't use Synology drive. I have the NAS mounted as a simple network share.

  • wimwim
    edited March 14

    @mistercharlie said:

    @wim said:
    Dropbox and iCloud have file providers for iOS. How are you attaching to the Synthology server?

    The Synology Drive app puts a file provider in the Files sidebar.

    I think I used the wrong terminology. AudioShare is a File Provider and it has the same limitations on folders. Dropbox must be different in some way if you can attach folders from it. I haven't tried.

    iCloud, of course, has even tighter integration.

  • wimwim
    edited March 14

    @mistercharlie said:
    I’ll give that a go. The advantage of Synology Drive is that it can sync a folder from the server to the iPad, and the iPad folder is available offline.

    Would it make sense then to set up a local folder with sync to the Synology folder, then add the local to your apps? Sorry, I'm not familiar with Synology at all.

  • mistercharliemistercharlie

    @wim said:

    @mistercharlie said:
    I’ll give that a go. The advantage of Synology Drive is that it can sync a folder from the server to the iPad, and the iPad folder is available offline.

    Would it make sense then to set up a local folder with sync to the Synology folder, then add the local to your apps? Sorry, I'm not familiar with Synology at all.

    That’s the problem. The apps don’t let me add Synology’s synced folder. I’ll try the SMB method for now. It’s not like I leave the house much anyway, and then I can just slum it and use drag-and-drop from the files app.

  • mistercharliemistercharlie

    @wim said:

    @mistercharlie said:

    @wim said:
    Dropbox and iCloud have file providers for iOS. How are you attaching to the Synthology server?

    The Synology Drive app puts a file provider in the Files sidebar.

    I think I used the wrong terminology. AudioShare is a File Provider and it has the same limitations on folders. Dropbox must be different in some way if you can attach folders from it. I haven't tried.

    I didn’t realize AudioShare was also limited in this way.

    iCloud, of course, has even tighter integration.

    I’m trying to stop using Apple’s services, but iCloud definitely has some advantages, especially now you can keep whole folders downloaded on iPadOS.

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