Since Picasa 3.9, there is an entry in the Experimental menu which allows you to move your database to another location. On the downside, it still stores all metadata about your collection locally on your Mac harddisk, so although your photos are stored centrally, you can’t easily store the database on your NAS. This means that it can easily index all the photos on your Synology NAS without actually changing them. Although you can do this, it is at your command when your original photo is actually changed. Secondly, most editing actions you can perform are not saved to the original picture. First of all, it doesn’t copy photos, it only indexes them and creates a metadata database. Although you can see that Picasa is not designes specifically for OSX, it has some great management features in which it outperforms iPhoto easily. So I looked at various other native Mac Photo Management applications, like Shoebox, Lyn and finally Picasa. Trying to host the iPhoto library on the NAS doesn’t work, because iPhoto requires an HFS+ formatted drive, which you can’t create on your Synology NAS (although you can mount an external HFS+ formatted drive). With current expensive SSD storage this is not what I want. It copies everything across to its library, which can grow quite big.
Managing this with iPhoto is quite a challenge, because it cannot handle the photos being stored somewhere else. I have a large collection of digital photos on my Synology NAS (currently a DS-209II running DSM 4.2).
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