Use Network Drive with Gnome Photos

Desktop Environments Gnome
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I was wanting to try using Gnome Photos instead of Shotwell and all of my photos are on a NAS shared with samba. The Gnome Photos app seems to only work with the Pictures directory. My question is, is there a way to change this directory to a network location?

I’ve tried editing the user-dirs.dirs file to look something like this made up example but it’s not working:

XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Downloads"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Templates"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/Public"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documents"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Music"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Videos"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR=“smb://192.168.1.123/NASfolder”

Any ideas?

Scott

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Is the NAS share working? Do you see NAS drive on the using machine? I.e. do you have the share mounted somewhere?

man mount

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Maybe you could use an automount unit for systemd and mount your NASfolder into a subdirectory of Pictures.

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should be bind under $HOME/Pictures so it will be used instead of the local folder

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This worked perfectly. I had to fumble my way through wikis and tutorials but I figured out how and it solved my problem. Thanks!!

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