Synology BeeStation | Install BeeStation for Desktop on Windows

• First download the Windows version of BeeStation for Desktop app.
• Next check that your user account has administrator rights over Windows.

Notes: Installing BeeStation for Desktop will crash if you try and install it using elevated admin rights. So while we prefer not to have administrative rights over a Windows computer. A Windows 11 computer, configured with a Microsoft account, will have admin rights by default.

So in order to check if your user account has administrators rights please check out our video: Quickly check your access privileges in Windows.

• Open your Downloads folder and run the BeeStation for Desktop installer.
• When prompted, sign in using the same Synology account credentials you used to configure your BeeStation.
• When on the Access and open BeeStation directly from your computer screen, we recommend that you leave the folder location on its default.
• Click OK.
• The app will install and open the link to your BeeStation through File Explorer.

By default the BeeStation app will create a direct link to your BeeStation. This link is a bit like a network mapped drive, but unlike a network drive, will sync files and folders between your BeeStation and multiple devices.

• Open File Explorer.
• In the side bar you will see BeeStation (BeeStation name).
• Select it to open a direct link between your computer and your BeeStation.

Notes: Any files and folders saved to this link, will be saved to your PC and synced to your BeeStation. Then by installing BeeStation for Desktop on another computer, you can either access the files from your BeeStation or sync specific files to that computer.

• Open the BeeStation for Desktop app.
• Select the Settings icon, and from the menu choose Settings.
• From within Settings use the sidebar to choose My Computer.
• Click on Select Folder.
• A Sync folders on your computer with BeeStation panel will appear.
• Choose BeeFiles (Sync folder with BeeFiles).
• Two options will appear.

Note: Sync with BeeFiles and Backup to BeeFiles, offer two different functions. With Sync with BeeFiles, you will simply be transfering a copy of a file to your BeeStation. Which will delete the previous version of that file. So you would use Sync to keep a copy of a file in the cloud should you not have access to your Windows computer.

Backup to BeeFiles, is a backup of sorts, in that it will keep versions of amended files on your BeeStation. However as the BeeStation is not very sophisticated at the moment, it is not able to automatically restore a file back to your computer.

• Highlight Sync with BeeFiles and click Next.
• Now choose the folder location that you want to have sync with your BeeStation.
• More than likely this will be a folder in your user profile so choose Users – [account name] to see a list of the folders you can sync.
• After selecting a folder ie Documents click Apply.

Note: The BeeStation for Desktop app will now sync the contents of the folder to your BeeStation. This may take a while if you have a lot of files and a slow internet connection.

• Open the BeeStation for Desktop app.
• Select the Settings icon, and from the menu choose Settings.
• From within Settings use the sidebar to choose My Computer.
• Click on Select Folder.
• A Sync folders on your computer with BeeStation panel will appear.
• We are going to choose BeePhotos (Back up photos and video to BeeFiles), as we want to back up our Pictures folder rather than sync it.

Note: If you are looking to backup files. You would use BeeFiles rather than BeePhotos. Then follow the same process to set up your backup as you would a Sync.

• Click Next.
• Now choose the folder location that you want backed up to your BeeStation.
• More than likely this will be a folder in your user profile so choose Users – [account name] to see a list of the folders you can backup.
• After selecting Pictures click Apply.

Note: The photos and videos in your Pictures folder will now get uploaded to BeePhotos on your BeeStation. Then if you edit any photos or videos, BeeStation for Desktop will automatically upload that file to your BeeStation as a new version.