How to find which albums reference an image

Kari Whitcomb

• 3. Oktober 2015 02:25

Is there a way in Capture One Pro (v8.3.3 on a mac) to determine which albums a particular image is referenced in. My understanding (and I'm new with the program, so I may be wrong) is that images in the catalog can be referenced (included) in multiple albums, or none at all. I'm wondering if there is a way to determine which albums reference any given file.

The workflows I'm trying to work out are:

- a way to find any images in the catalog that aren't included in any album. This would be a way of determining any files that need to be categorized.
- if I search the whole catalog for a file (by name or keyword, etc), then I may want to know which albums include it to find related images.

So far I haven't found any way to trace the references to an image, which seems like a big whole in the program, but maybe I'm just missing something (or at least that is what I'm hoping).

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

-Kari

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  Paul Steunebrink

  • 3. Oktober 2015 10:38

  Hi Kari,
  
  Welome to Capture One and the forum. I can easily understand that are looking for the features you mentioned in your post. Unfortunately,and unless I overlook the obvious, these features are current not available in CO8.

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  SFA

  • 3. Oktober 2015 11:30

  Kari,
  
  One option currently possible would be to create a "keyword" entry for each album. Perhaps a hierarchical keyword something like Album > [Name of album].
  
  This should be a relatively quick activity for each album and then you can simply select all of the images in an album and apply the keywords for the [Name of Album] and it will include the word "Album" too.
  
  Once all albums a re updated go to the All Images selection and create a search for images that do not have "Album" as a keyword.
  
  Obviously this is just an illustration - you can of course use your own "words" and adapt the concept for your own purposes.
  
  Options to visualise where images are set to 'belong' in albums would be nice I would imagine, although from a personal perspective at this time it would not be of particular interest to me
  
  
  HTH.
  
  
  Grant

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  Helmut Kaufmann

  • 5. Oktober 2015 17:38

  Query the underlying database directly. That should do the trick if you need to do it occasionally only.

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  Andriy.Okhrimets

  • 6. Oktober 2015 13:26

  Hi, Kari unfortunately there is no way to accomplish you task.
  I would recommend to stick to keywords instead of user collection.
  I hope User collection feature will improve over time 😊

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