Viewing dimensions for images stored on NAS drive

Hi
I have a problem with seeing dimensions for any images stored on my NAS drive. I can see the info for the folder contents under each, so that's clearly working, just not the image dimensions. 'Get Info' doesn't have this information either. Any ideas?

Image dimensions would be stored in what is called metadata. If the NAS file system doesn't support maintaining the metadata, then there is no way for your Mac to see it. That data is stored in the Resource fork of the file, the image being stored in the data fork.
If the Mac tries to write to a file system that does not support the resource forks, it will also copy over a ._ file of the same name, if it can. That file contains the metadata. However, I'm not certain if the OS can also read those files when browsing the file system.

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