DSM Access 1.3-beta.2
Pre-release
Pre-release
v1.3-beta.2 (build 26) — 2026-08-06
Highlights
- When something fails, DSM Access now says so in a dialog that stays on
screen until you close it. No more errors spoken once and lost — and a
Report button sends the message straight to the developer if you want to.
Changes
- Every module: a failed operation — a restore, a deletion, a settings
change — opens the same error dialog. VoiceOver reads it on its own, OK
closes it, and Report opens the contact form pre-filled with the error,
which you review before anything is sent. - Hyper Backup: downloading or restoring from a backup now plays the
completion sound, or posts a notification when the app is in the
background — the same signals file transfers already had. - Hyper Backup: downloading a file from a backup now gives the NAS up to
five minutes to prepare it. On a busy NAS, or when the backup lives on
another NAS, the former twenty-second limit could cut the download short
before the first byte arrived. - Users and groups, share links, favorites, Package Center and File Station
tasks used to show errors each in their own way; they all use the same
dialog now.
v1.3-beta.1 (build 25) — 2026-08-05
Highlights
- New Hyper Backup module: follow your backups and, at last, restore from
them without the DSM screen that made restoring feel dangerous. A backup
browses like a folder, and restoring beside the originals is the default.
Hyper Backup
- The module (Cmd-Shift-6) lists your backup tasks in a sortable table with
their destination, state and encryption. A running backup announces its
progress live. Start a backup, cancel one with confirmation, browse the
dated versions, and read the task's log and statistics. - Restore explorer: open any version and move through what it holds the way
the Files module works — arrow keys, Cmd-Down Arrow to open a folder,
Cmd-Up Arrow to go back. Each row reads its name, kind, size and date, and
a damaged entry says so in words. - "Restore to…" puts a copy beside the originals — the safe direction is the
default. The sheet is the folder browser itself: walk to the folder that
should receive the copy, create it on the way if it does not exist yet, and
a written sentence states what will be restored where before you confirm.
Replacing what is already there stays off until you switch it on, and the
consequence is spelled out. - "Restore to the original location…" puts the selection back where it came
from. The confirmation names what will be replaced and where — not just
"your original files". - Download a file from a backup to the Mac, choosing where it lands, with
progress announced in bytes received. - Not there yet, and said plainly: searching inside a backup, following a
long restore, unlocking encrypted backups, pausing a backup, and creating
or deleting tasks.
Shared folders
- Creating a shared folder now offers the recycle bin, its administrator
restriction, both visibility options and encryption. A new settings sheet
brings the same choices to an existing folder, and an encrypted folder can
be locked and unlocked from its menu. - The settings gain the quota, file compression, the data checksum and the
three advanced restrictions (browsing, modifying, downloading). A folder's
recycle bin can be emptied, and a new sheet shows which accounts reach the
folder, and with which right. - Encrypting an existing folder is followed to the end: the screen says how
far the rewrite is, that the folder stays unavailable meanwhile, and offers
to stop it. - Fixed: the recycle bin column read "No" on every folder, even those where
it is on.
Changes
- Picking a folder on the NAS — in Containers, USB Copy and Hyper Backup —
goes through one Finder-style table, with the shared folders at its root.
v1.2 (build 24) — 2026-08-04
Highlights
- Containers gains a terminal. You can open a shell inside a running container
and work in it, with the answers laid out to be read line by line instead of
the screen-shaped terminal DSM shows, which no screen reader can follow.
Containers
- Terminal: select a container, open Terminal from its menu, and a session
starts inside it. What you send and what the shell answers are laid out as an
exchange, one block each, so they read apart. The output sits in a read-only
field you can move through line by line and copy from, and the shell is asked
to print its listings one entry per line rather than in aligned columns. - The session runs
/bin/shunless you name another shell before it starts. A
Stop button sends the interruption a terminal would, for a command that runs
on and on. - Closing the window ends the session, and leaves nothing running inside the
container. - Container Manager only accepts a terminal through an address the NAS knows as
its own. Where yours is refused, the app says so and names the address rather
than reporting a server error, and it tries your QuickConnect name once
before giving up.
v1.1 (build 23) — 2026-08-03
The first stable release since 1.0, which came out on 10 July. If you are
coming from 1.0, everything below is new to you.
Highlights
- Seven modules that did not exist in 1.0: Resource Monitor, Logs and Security,
Package Center, Containers, USB Copy, External Devices, and permissions in
Users and Groups. - Files now works with the Finder: copy on one side, paste on the other, in
both directions. - The app updates itself, and tells you what a long operation is doing while it
runs.
New modules
- External Devices: a Control Panel section lists the USB and eSATA drives
connected to the NAS, with their maker, model, capacity and state, and the
partitions of the selected one with their file system, sizes and shared
folder. Eject a drive, or format it in EXT4, FAT32 or EXFAT. An eject button
appears in the toolbar as soon as something is plugged in. - Resource Monitor: processor, memory, network and disks, plus the open files,
the alerts the NAS recorded and the connections in progress. You can end a
session that should not be there. - Logs and Security: all four logs the NAS keeps, not just one of them, with
Security Advisor's findings, the blocked addresses, and export to a file. - Package Center: browse the official Synology catalog, install, update and
remove packages, install a package file by hand, and manage your package
sources. - Containers: the Container Manager is covered in full. Create a container,
duplicate one, rename it, cap its memory, read its logs and statistics, and
handle images, networks, projects and registries. - USB Copy: set up and run your USB copy tasks entirely from the app —
direction, folders, filters and schedule. Contributed by Ashley Cox. - Users and Groups gains permissions: a panel lists every shared folder with
the rights of an account or a group, and a second tab does the same for
applications.
Files
- Copy files in the Finder and paste them into a folder on the NAS, or drag an
item out of the list and drop it in the Finder. A folder dropped in the
Finder arrives as an archive built by the NAS. - Copy and paste behave as they do in the Finder: Command-C copies, Command-V
pastes, and Return renames. - A running copy shows what it is doing, how far along it is, its speed and the
time left, with a Cancel button that really stops it. Sending and downloading
show the same banner. - The result of a long operation stays on screen until you dismiss it, and a
short sound marks the end of a transfer. You can turn the sound off. - Create and manage share links, with passwords and expiry dates.
- See full details for any file or folder, search with advanced criteria, look
inside an archive and extract only what you need.
Sign-in and accounts
- Open a session without typing a password, by approving it on your phone with
Secure SignIn. - Sessions are kept between launches: tick "Stay signed in" and the app reopens
on the session it already had. - Connect with QuickConnect by entering your QuickConnect ID instead of an
address. Contributed by Ashley Cox. - Accounts without administrator rights can sign in, and the app tells you when
your NAS requires a new password before letting an account in. - Create users and groups, choose what they may reach, and generate a password
that satisfies your NAS policy.
Changes
- The keyboard shortcuts for the last modules use Command-Option rather than
Command-Shift. macOS keeps Command-Shift-3, 4 and 5 for screen capture and
always wins, which left three modules out of reach from the keyboard. - You choose whether to receive beta versions, in Settings > Updates. Trying a
beta once no longer means staying on the betas. - The app checks for a new version at every launch, and has its own icon,
designed by Ashley Cox.
Fixes
- A long copy is no longer abandoned after five minutes, and leaving the screen
no longer stops it. - A package installed while the app is running is now noticed, instead of
staying unavailable until the next sign-in. - Creating a share link, sending files to the NAS, installing a package file,
and creating a user on DSM 7.4 all work again. - Approving your NAS certificate once signs you in, instead of blocking there.
Accessibility and language
- Lists, forms and scrolling areas across the app say what they hold instead of
announcing "scroll area". - Status and detail text was made legible: the system colours failed the
contrast threshold at the sizes this app uses. - Transfers name their direction in words rather than with an icon alone.
- The app shows up in English on a Mac set to a language it does not ship,
instead of mixing languages.
Known limits
- Ejecting and formatting have been tested on USB. eSATA uses the same calls,
but no eSATA drive was available to try them on.
v1.1-beta.21 (build 22) — 2026-08-03
Highlights
- Container Manager is now covered in full: you can create a container, not just
watch the ones already there.
New
- Containers: a New container button asks for an image, a name, the ports to
publish, the folders to mount and the environment variables, then creates it.
A port left at 0 is chosen for you when the container starts. - Containers: Duplicate makes a second container with the same settings. The
copy arrives stopped, and its ports are left free so it cannot clash with the
original. - Containers: a Settings screen renames a container, caps its memory and decides
whether it restarts on its own. - Containers: a Statistics tab shows the memory in use and the bytes received
and sent. A container that has just started says its processor share is not
measurable yet rather than showing zero. - Containers: Force stop kills a container that will not stop, and Reset builds
it again from its settings. Both say what is lost before doing it. - Containers: a container's settings can be written to a folder of the NAS.
Changes
- Nine more lists became sortable tables, with one column per value: File
Station favourites, tasks, virtual folders and transfers, installed packages,
the package catalogue, shared folders, the USB Copy log and the archive
browser. Reading a row column by column no longer means hearing it as one
block. - Per-row buttons moved into each table's context menu, everywhere. The Actions
column is gone: it widened every row and stood between you and the next line. - Shared folders show whether the recycle bin is on, which the NAS reported all
along without the app saying so. - Transfers name the direction in words. Until now it was an icon, so it was
said nowhere. - The archive browser says whether an entry is a folder or a file.
- Packages say when an operation is running, and when uninstalling needs the DSM
assistant. Both were only hinted at.
Fixes
- VoiceOver: forms, lists and scroll views across the app now say what they
hold. Most of them announced only "scroll area". - Two labels showed their internal key instead of their text.
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v1.1-beta.20 (build 21) — 2026-07-31
New
- Updates: you now choose whether to receive beta versions, in Settings >
Updates. Until now the channel followed the version installed, so trying a
beta once meant staying on the betas. Turning it off does not undo the beta
already installed: the app stays on it until a stable version goes past it. - Files: sending or downloading now shows the same banner as a copy — what is
running, how much is done, the speed, the time left, and a Cancel button that
really stops it. Until now a large upload showed a spinner in a corner, and
the details lived in a window you had to think of opening. - Users and groups: creating a group offers "Create and set permissions…", as
creating a user already did. A new group could reach nothing, and nothing on
screen said where to grant it anything.
Fixes
- Files: dragging a folder to the Finder produces a zip archive built by the
NAS, and downloading one does the same. That is now said, with the name of
the archive, instead of a .zip appearing unannounced. - Files: while the NAS packs a folder into an archive, nothing is transferred
yet. That wait is now named rather than left as a progress bar sitting at
zero with no explanation. - Users and groups: creating a group with a name already taken kept the sheet
open and says so, instead of closing and discarding what was typed.
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v1.1-beta.19 (build 20) — 2026-07-31
Fixes
- Files: sending a file to the NAS, or bringing one back, now plays the sound at
the end. It only ever played for operations that stay on the NAS — copying,
moving, deleting — which left out the transfers long enough to walk away
from. The notification was missing on those too. - Files: pasting or sending no longer opens a form first. The app compares the
names with the destination and only asks when something would be replaced,
naming it: "budget.xlsx already exists in this folder". The upload form and
its three date pickers are gone; DSM does not ask for those either. - Five spoken announcements were in French for everyone — editing a share link,
advanced search, package details, creating an archive, and one more. They had
slipped past the translation work.
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v1.1-beta.18 (build 19) — 2026-07-30
Fixes
- Files: pasting into an empty folder works. The keyboard shortcut did nothing
there — the one place where pasting is the only thing left to do. The folder
is still announced as empty when you arrive in it. - Users and groups: creating an account no longer announces that adding it to
its groups failed when it did not. The NAS puts every account in the "users"
group itself and refuses any change to it, so the app no longer offers it as
a choice; the screen says instead that every account belongs to it. - Users and groups: when the NAS does refuse a group, the app names it and
keeps the ones the NAS accepted. Until now the first refusal silently
dropped every group listed after it.
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v1.1-beta.17 (build 18) — 2026-07-30
Highlights
- Logs and Security was rebuilt. The app was reading one log out of four —
seven thousand entries where the NAS holds more than a hundred thousand —
and two of its columns had always been empty. - The Resource Monitor is complete: open files, the alerts the NAS recorded,
and the thresholds that produce them.
Please tell me if the wording looks wrong
Every piece of text in the app moved to a new system this week, so that the
app can one day be translated into other languages. Nothing should look
different — but if you come across a label that reads like machine code, a
sentence in the wrong language, or a word that is simply missing, please say
so. Those are mistakes on my side, not on yours, and they are quick to fix.
New
- Logs and Security: all four logs the NAS keeps are now available, not just
the system one. File transfers are there, with the address, the operation
and the size, and connections have their own log. - Logs and Security: a log can be exported to a file, as a spreadsheet or as
a web page. The NAS writes the file itself, so what you get is exactly what
it holds. - Logs and Security: Security Advisor's findings about sign-ins now have
their own tab — failed attempts, unusual sources, accounts worth a look. - Logs and Security: two settings panes. One decides which transfers the NAS
records; the other, how many failed sign-ins it takes before an address is
blocked, and for how long. - Logs and Security: the search field is in the toolbar, where it is in every
other module, and older entries load as you go rather than stopping at the
first page. - Resource Monitor: an Open files tab, listing what the NAS is currently
holding open and for whom. - Resource Monitor: a History tab, showing the alerts the NAS recorded against
its own thresholds. - Resource Monitor: a Performance alarm tab. You can add, change and remove
the thresholds the NAS watches — on the system, on a service, or on a
volume. - Resource Monitor: a connected session can be closed from the Connections
tab. - Files: a copy or a move now plays a short sound when it ends, and a
different one if it fails. It plays when the app is in front; when it is
not, the notification carries the result as before, never both. Settings
has a switch to turn the sound off.
Fixes
- Logs and Security: the block list came back with an error 103 for everyone.
The app was asking the NAS for that list the wrong way. It works now. - Logs and Security: the Time and User columns were empty in every log. The
app was reading fields the NAS does not send. - Resource Monitor: a service's processor share was shown a hundred times too
small. - Resource Monitor: a process can legitimately exceed 100 % — it means it is
using more than one core. The screen now says so instead of leaving you to
guess. - Five labels in the Resource Monitor were showing in English to French users.
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v1.1-beta.16 (build 17) — 2026-07-29
Highlights
- Sign-in: the app reopens on the session it already had. Tick "Stay signed
in" once and the next launch goes straight in — with no password to
replay, and no approval to grant on your phone. - A Resource Monitor of its own, with the processor, memory, network, disks
and volumes; the services and processes running; and who is connected to
the NAS.
New
- Sign-in: sessions are kept between launches. Only a refusal from the NAS
sends you back to the sign-in screen, and it says why. The saved session
lives in the Keychain beside your password and is erased when you sign
out. - Sign-in: the menu now names Secure SignIn rather than describing it as
"no password", and remembers which method you chose. - Resource Monitor: a new entry in the sidebar, on Command Shift 5, with
three tabs. Performance adds each disk and volume, with its own activity,
and the load averages. Tasks lists services and the busiest processes.
Connections shows who is connected, from where and since when. - Resource Monitor: tasks and connections are sortable tables — click a
column header to order by it. - Files: a running copy now shows its speed and how long is left, or "less
than a minute" when the end is near. Neither is ever spoken aloud; they
sit in the progress banner for you to read when you want them. - Files: when a long operation finishes while the app is in the background,
a notification carries the result. macOS asks for permission the first
time, and a switch in Settings turns it off.
Fixes
- Memory was reported twice over and disagreed with itself: 17% in use on
one line, 3.54 GB of 3.68 GB on the next. DSM sets disk cache aside, and
this NAS was holding 2.89 GB of it. - The NAS menu in the toolbar announced the name of its icon —
"externaldrive.connected.to.line.below" — instead of what it does.
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v1.1-beta.15 (build 16) — 2026-07-29
Highlights
- Files: creating a share link works again. Since beta.6 it failed every time
with "the NAS response could not be read", even though the NAS had created
the link. If you tried during that period, those links are sitting in your
share link list, waiting to be used or deleted.
Fixes
- Files: a share link is created and handed back as before. The app had been
demanding a piece of information that DSM only sends when something goes
wrong, and threw the whole answer away when it was, correctly, absent. - Files: on some NAS models the Files screen itself could refuse to open, for
the same reason. It no longer depends on details your NAS may not report. - Files: the task window follows a running task again. It used to show the
progress it had when you opened it and never move, which made a long
compression look stuck at one percent. - Files: a compression that finished is no longer reported as an interrupted
operation. The NAS drops a finished task rather than announcing it, and that
silence was being read as a failure.
New
- Files: pasting or moving now names the folder the items are going into,
before you confirm. Selecting a folder in the list does not make it the
destination — it has to be open, as in the Finder. - Files: when creating an archive you can choose the encoding used for the
names inside it, for archives meant to be opened on another system. - When the app cannot make sense of an answer from your NAS, it now says so and
offers to report it. Reporting opens the contact form, already filled in, and
attaches the call that failed and the names of the fields your NAS sent —
never their contents, so no file name, path or account leaves your machine.
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v1.1-beta.14 (build 15) — 2026-07-28
Highlights
- Sign-in: you can now open a session without typing a password at all, by
approving the request in the Synology Secure SignIn app on your phone. - Files: a long copy is no longer abandoned after five minutes, and leaving the
Files screen no longer stops it.
New
- Sign-in: an Authentication menu on the connection screen chooses between your
password and the approval sent to your phone. With the second, the password
field steps aside and a waiting screen tells you what to do, reading out the
number to confirm when your NAS asks for one. The session opened this way has
to be approved again the next time you open the app, which the screen says. - DSM update: a new screen shows the update your NAS offers and installs it,
with the progress announced along the way.
Fixes
- Files: copying, moving, deleting, compressing or extracting used to be given
up after exactly five minutes, reported as a failure, while the NAS quietly
carried on. A copy of several hours is now followed to its end. - Files: switching to another screen while a copy was running silently stopped
it on the NAS. It now keeps going, and coming back to Files picks the
progress up again -- even after quitting and reopening the app. Only the
Cancel button stops a task. - Files: the result of a long operation stays on screen until you dismiss it. A
spoken announcement made while the app sits in the background is never heard,
which left no trace of what happened. - Files: a folder holding a file whose name was not stored in Unicode could not
be opened at all -- one such name among three thousand made the whole folder
unreachable. It now opens, that one name showing a replacement character, as
DSM itself does.
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v1.1-beta.13 (build 14) — 2026-07-28
Highlights
- Users and groups: the groups an account belongs to can now be changed after
the account exists, not only while creating it.
New
- Users and groups: the permissions panel gains a Groups tab, next to shared
folders and applications, listing every group on the NAS with the ones the
account belongs to ticked. Changes are saved along with the rest.
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v1.1-beta.12 (build 13) — 2026-07-28
Highlights
- Users and groups: you can now give an account access to your shared folders
and to the applications on your NAS, without leaving DSM Access. Creating
someone an account and letting them actually use it is one task again.
New
- Users and groups: a Permissions panel lists every shared folder with the
access granted to the account, the access it inherits from its groups, and
the four choices DSM offers. It reads as a table, one row per folder, so you
can go through it with the arrow keys. - Users and groups: a second tab does the same for applications. Whether
someone may open DSM, File Station, Synology Photos or connect over SMB is
set here. Nothing is sent to the NAS until you save, and only what you
changed is sent. - Users and groups: the same panel works on a group. Give the rights once to a
group, add people to it, and each of them inherits without you repeating
anything. This is the practical way to set up a household. - Users and groups: the creation panel offers to open the permissions of the
account it just created, so you do not have to find it again in the list to
give it any access at all.
Fixes
- Users and groups: the groups you picked when creating an account were
silently dropped. The account was created, but it belonged to none of them.
It now lands in the groups you chose.
Accessibility
- Users and groups: an application already restricted to specific addresses is
left read-only, with an explanation, rather than being quietly rewritten as
"from anywhere". - Users and groups: when a group is denied access to a folder, the panel says
so on the row concerned, because that denial overrides whatever the account
itself was given. - Users and groups: the panel shows a single Close button until something is
actually modified, instead of a Cancel that suggests undoing work and a
dimmed Save that does not say why.
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v1.1-beta.11 (build 12) — 2026-07-27
Highlights
- Sign-in: accounts without administrator rights can sign in again. Anyone you
created an account for on your NAS can use DSM Access, not just you.
Fixes
- Sign-in: an account that is not an administrator was turned away with
"Permission denied for this account", even though that same account signed
in to DSM in a browser without any trouble. - Users and groups: creating a user failed with nothing but an error code when
the password did not satisfy the rules your NAS enforces. The message now
says what happened, and the form lists those rules before you type anything. - Users and groups: a failed creation no longer closes the panel and discards
everything you filled in. The message appears in place, and you can correct
the password without starting over.
New
- Sign-in: when your NAS requires a new password before letting an account in,
DSM Access asks for it and signs you in, instead of stopping on an error you
could do nothing about. - Users and groups: a button generates a password that satisfies your NAS
rules. It is shown in plain text so you can read it back, and a second
button copies it, so you can pass it on to the person it is meant for. The
characters that sound and look alike are left out, so it survives being read
aloud or written down.
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v1.1-beta.10 (build 11) — 2026-07-25
Highlights
- Files: copy files in the Finder, then paste them into a folder on the NAS
with Command-V. Whole folders come along, with everything inside them. - Files: drag an item out of the file list and drop it in the Finder to
download it there. - Copy and paste now behave the way they do in the Finder: Command-C copies,
Command-V pastes a copy, and Command-Option-V moves. There is no longer a
Cut command.
New
- Files: Command-V sends what you copied in the Finder to the folder you are
in. Files land in that folder; a folder is recreated on the NAS with its
entire tree, empty subfolders included. Finder's hidden .DS_Store files are
left out, and if an item on your Mac cannot be read, the transfer reports
itself as incomplete rather than pretending everything went through. - Files: an item can be dragged out of the list and dropped in the Finder.
Nothing is downloaded until you actually drop it, and a folder arrives as a
ZIP archive, exactly as it does with Download. Download remains the
keyboard route and has not changed. - Files: sending items to the NAS now accepts folders as well as files, and
the options that appear before a transfer say how many files and how many
folders are on their way.
Changes
- Files: Cut is gone. Command-C copies, Command-V pastes a copy, and
Command-Option-V moves what you copied — the choice happens when you paste,
as in the Finder. The Files menu now offers Move Here next to Paste, and the
confirmation states what a move will do. Moving files that come from your
Mac is refused, with an explanation: it would mean deleting your originals. - Updates: the app now looks for a new version at every launch. Sparkle's own
schedule checks once a day at most, which left a tester a version behind
whenever two builds went out on the same day. Nothing appears on screen
unless an update is waiting, and the setting in the updates panel still
decides whether the check happens at all. - Updates: checking automatically is now the app's declared default instead of
a preference written on your behalf at first launch — a preference you never
chose, which also silenced Sparkle's own question about it. The updates panel
remains the one place to change this.
Requirements
- macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later.
- A Synology NAS running DSM 7 on your local network.
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v1.1-beta.9 (build 10) — 2026-07-23
Highlights
- New USB Copy module: set up and run your USB copy tasks entirely from the
app — the selectors in DSM's web interface are unusable with a screen
reader, so this was until now a job for sighted help. Contributed by
Ashley Cox. - Files: sending files to the NAS works again. A DSM update had quietly
broken every upload. - DSM Access now has its own app icon, also designed by Ashley Cox.
New
- USB Copy: see every task with its direction, folders, and current state;
create import and export tasks with accessible folder choosers for the
source and destination; choose the copy mode, version rotation, file
filters, and schedule; run, cancel, enable, disable, or delete a task; read
the package's log; adjust its general settings. Risky operations explain
their consequence and ask first — a mirror task warns that it deletes from
the destination, and deleting a task names it. The module appears only when
the USB Copy package is installed on the NAS.
Fixes
- Files: uploading a file ended in an error ever since the NAS moved to the
latest DSM 7.4 update, which changed how DSM expects uploads to be sent.
Uploads now follow the same convention as DSM's own File Station and work
again — including the choice between replacing or skipping an existing
file.
Requirements
- macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later.
- A Synology NAS running DSM 7 on your local network.
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v1.1-beta.8 (build 9) — 2026-07-23
Highlights
- The app now shows up in English when your Mac's language is neither French
nor English — nothing to configure. - Package Center: the switch between installed packages and the official
catalog is now part of the screen itself, where VoiceOver finds it naturally.
Fixes
- Package Center: the Installed / Official catalog switch lived in the window
toolbar, an area VoiceOver treats separately without ever hinting that a
choice exists there. The switch now sits at the top of the screen, in normal
reading order, announced as a proper two-option choice. - Package Center: with an account that has no administrator rights, the catalog
tab showed a misleading "no matching packages" message. It now explains that
DSM only provides the catalog to administrator accounts. - Language: on a Mac set to a language the app doesn't ship (Hungarian, for
example), the app appeared in French. It now appears in English, and picking
a language for the app in System Settings works as expected. - VoiceOver: the main lists now introduce themselves — "Files and folders",
"Shared folders", "Users", "Groups", "File services", "Installed packages",
"Pools, volumes, and disks" — instead of announcing an anonymous table. Rows
in Shared Folders also announce their nature properly. - VoiceOver: the Package Center switch no longer announces its name twice.
- Legibility: status and detail text across the app — package states, versions,
disk health, log details, the summaries at the bottom of a screen — is now
noticeably darker and meets the recommended contrast for small text, in both
light and dark mode. A welcome change with low vision.
Requirements
- macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later.
- A Synology NAS running DSM 7 on your local network.
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v1.1-beta.7 (build 8) — 2026-07-22
Highlights
- Installing a package file (.spk) now works: it used to fail every time with
a NAS error (code 101). - The app now checks for its own updates at launch, and a new settings pane
can install them automatically, with no dialog to answer.
New
- Settings > Updates: checking at launch is now on by default (you can turn it
off), and a "Download and install automatically" option installs the new
version when the app quits — no more answering a dialog for every update.
The pane also shows the installed version and a check-now button.
Fixes
- Packages: installing or updating a package from an .spk file you downloaded
yourself now goes through, instead of failing right away with a NAS error
(code 101). The app now talks to the Package Center exactly the way DSM
itself does, verified on DSM 7.4.
Requirements
- macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later.
- A Synology NAS running DSM 7 on your local network.
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v1.1-beta.6 (build 7) — 2026-07-21
Highlights
- Connect with QuickConnect: enter your QuickConnect ID instead of an address
and port, and the app finds the best route to your NAS by itself. - The Package Center becomes a full module: browse the official Synology catalog
and install, update, repair or uninstall packages without leaving the app —
and package installs now work reliably on DSM 7.4. - Files gains the features that were still missing: detailed file information,
advanced search, favorites, share link management, archive browsing and
transfer progress. - Creating users works again on DSM 7.4, and group members are counted
correctly.
New
- Sign in with QuickConnect: pick "QuickConnect" on the sign-in screen, enter
your QuickConnect ID and your usual DSM account. The app prefers a direct,
verified route to your NAS and only falls back to the Synology relay when
needed — always over HTTPS. Note that QuickConnect has no official public
interface, so Synology may change this service without notice. - Packages: browse the official catalog, install a package with one action, or
install a package file (.spk) you downloaded yourself. Updates, repairs and
uninstalls are handled from the same list, with clear confirmations before
anything runs. - Packages: manage package sources and Package Center settings from the app.
- Files: see full details for any file or folder, search with advanced criteria
(name, type, size, dates, owner), and manage your favorites. - Files: create and manage share links, including passwords and expiry dates.
- Files: look inside an archive and extract only the items you need.
- Files: uploads and downloads now show their progress, and copy or move
operations ask you before overwriting anything. - A contact form in the Help menu lets you write to the developer directly from
the app; occasional announcements may appear at launch.
Fixes
- Accounts: creating a user on DSM 7.4 no longer fails with a permission error,
group member counts are correct, and when something does go wrong the app now
tells you instead of failing silently. - Packages: installing or updating a package on DSM 7.4 no longer fails with a
NAS error. - VoiceOver: opening Files no longer announces "Empty folder" while the content
is still loading — you now hear the real item count straight away. - VoiceOver: if your session expires and the app reconnects automatically, a
notice now explains that the operation in progress was interrupted, instead
of returning you to the overview without a word.
Thanks
- Thanks to Ashley Cox for the QuickConnect, File Station and Package Center
work at the heart of this release.
Requirements
- macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later.
- A Synology NAS running DSM 7 on your local network.
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v1.1-beta.5 (build 6) — 2026-07-19
Highlights
- Fixes a sign-in problem introduced in beta.4: approving your NAS certificate
now works, instead of the trust prompt coming back again and again.
Fixes
- When macOS does not recognise your NAS certificate, approving it once now signs
you in on the first try, and the choice is remembered for that server. In
beta.4 the approval did not take, so the trust prompt kept reappearing and left
you stuck on the sign-in screen.
Thanks
- Thanks to Ashley Cox, who tracked this down and fixed it.
Requirements
- macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later.
- A Synology NAS running DSM 7 on your local network.