Phot Slide show from a NAS drive

[rlm45]

I have a lot of photos on my NAS, MyCloud Disk. I want to do a slide show with some of these large photo folders. However, I really don't want to import them into Photos where they will be duplicated on the iMac creating a Library file. My wish is to show the slide show directly from the MyCloud drive. Seems to me a reasonable request.

Any known apps that will do this. Opening them one at a time is not what I want to do.

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[Raz0rEdge]

Try this..

1. Open Preview
2. In the File/Folder open dialog, go to the folder with your pictures on the MyCloud Disk
3. Choose the folder and hit Open
4. All of the pictures in the folder (and sub-folders) will now appear in the left side of Preview as thumbnails
5. Chose View->Slideshow (SHIFT+CMD+F) to begin the slideshow

If you have a lot of pictures in the folder, Preview might take some time be ready for you to view the slideshow..

 

[Slydude]

I didn't think of using Preview. Sometimes I forget all that it does.

My first thought was to create a second Library file in Photos. That Library file doesn't have to be stored on the Mac AFAIK. When the new library file is created you get to designate where it is saved. Creating the second library is as simple as launching Photos while holding down the Option key.
See here.

Unless I'm wrong the process of launching with the Option key down. could be handled with a simple Automator setup. Clicking that simple app launches Photos with the Option key down which brings up the dialog to choose a library. IIRC that part can also be automated so one Automator-based app launches your regular library and the other launches the "special" library. If you're interested I can probably cook up an example with all the steps in a few minutes.

 

[rlm45]

Thanks, Preview was the answer, never thought of using it. Photo, iPhoto too cumbersome and uses to many Mac resources. Need a way to quickly view photos and deleted those that are not good or duplicates. Mac needs a better solution to Photo management on all their platforms.

 

[Slydude]

Thanks, Preview was the answer, never thought of using it. Photo, iPhoto too cumbersome and uses to many Mac resources. Need a way to quickly view photos and deleted those that are not good or duplicates. Mac needs a better solution to Photo management on all their platforms.

For that task, Preview would be better than Photos.

If the photos are in a folder on your Mac somewhere have you thought about using QuickLook to speed up the process of deciding which ones are worth keeping? Once you select the first photo in the folder and tap the spacebar the arrow keys can be used to navigate to other files in the folder.

 

[MacInWin]

Need a way to quickly view photos and deleted those that are not good or duplicates

Finder has a view option called Gallery that shows the items as icons below an area where the one with focus is larger. Look for the symbol of a rectangle with five little dots below it:


You can scroll side to side to get the images one at a time, with a little bit of a view of the just past and next image.