path rewrite for centralized media

[Claude Hähni]

Hi all,

I keep my dive pictures and videos on a centralized NAS and use Subsurface on different devices (MacOS and Windows). The problem is that the way my NAS folders are mounted differs between the two systems. Because of that, I can’t access the media on both devices at the same time as one of them will always have invalid file paths.

I know about the "Find moved media files" option, and it actually works pretty well. It even seems to store the correct path for both systems. The issue is that I need to re-run the search every time I import new media, which gets tedious.

Would it be possible (or is there already a way) to have a path rewrite feature? Something like a configurable prefix replacement per device. That way, each system could map the NAS path correctly without having to re-scan every time new media is added.

Has anyone else run into this, and is there a workaround?

Thanks!
Claude

[Robert C. Helling]

Wouldn't it be simpler to create symbolic links to your media directories on you different machines?

Best 

Robert

[Claude Hähni]

Hi Robert
I thought about this, too. But from my understanding, it is not possible to create a symlinks in this case as Subsurface seems to store absolute paths and the way filesystems are rooted are fundamentally different ('c:\' vs '/'.
At least I don't see a way. But I'm happy to learn something new. :)

Best,
Claude