SharePoint and large Photo Archives

[titch]

We've successfully moved over 100 percent to sharepoint for our file shares. Most staff are fine with this but our marketing department are really not doing well with managing their large photo collection. This is partly due to the end users not listening and adjusting their ways of working but If I am not being really honest the file management of something like a photo library is not as good when syncing with a cloud location.

 

Is anyone successfully getting on with managing large amounts of photos in sharepoint? Would clouddrivermapper be any better with this kind of scenario. Would we be better off biting the bullet and getting a nas within school and losing all the great extra features of sharepoint for photo storage?

 

Any advice or experience is gratefully received.

[thimon]

We’ve been 100% SharePoint and OneDrive for several years now. However with the recent change in storage costs from MS we’re now using a NAS for all archive data, read only for staff and only accessible onsite. All live current data will stay on SharePoint.

 

Edit. We use CloudDriveMapper. You’ll need to wait a few moments for large photos to open, and it’s not great with large videos. Sync commonly used folders via the OneDrive client.

Edited September 2, 2024 by thimon

[titch]

Thanks for this. Would you say cloud drive mapper is better for large photo archives etc? Weve got a decent connection but its never gonna be as good as LAN. We have constant problems with the department uploading photos and videos etc and then them losing them which is partly user based but also down to the onedrive sync client to some extent. Im not sure how many times I have said have you checked onedrive is running when they cant find a file.

[thimon]

For Photos CDM should be fine. It’s a live link, so won’t have any conflicting syncing issues like you can potentially get with the OneDrive client. If you’ve got a large library then the OneDrive client struggles with all the changes that will be happening. I’d say trial CDM and see what you think, their support team is awesome and I think it’s fairly priced. It’s not perfect, but it helps bridge the gap between cloud storage and old school access methods.