Catalog size
I have a catalog that has 396 photos (RAW Canon 5D Mark IV). An average raw photo has 30-40 MB in size. How comes that the size of the catalog is 31 GB ?
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As a sessions user I'm not all that familiar with catalog importing. That said it seems to be around twice the size of the CR2's by themselves? Is it possible that you imported the CR2's from the their original location to a new destination, making duplicates of them?
Have you searched through your folders & files to find where the bulk of GB's are?0 -
I have a setting for the catalogue to be in one file and I import directly from SD card, so I don't think there could be a secret location in between .. So I really don't know 0 -
If you are using the Catalogue as a "Managed" resource then the RAW images will be in the catalogue file system that you will see presented as a "Catalogue file". As will everything else most likely - so the Previews for example.
What size do you have set for the Preview files?
And Outputs perhaps? If you have outputs in the catalog, what file types are they? What size are they?
For simplicity if we assume that you have 400 images at 40Mb per image that would be 16,000Mb or approximately half of the size of your catalogue file just allocated to the managed source files.
How ot go about discovering what file you have in the catalog is to some extent operating system dependent and you have not indicated whether you are using Mac or Windows.
Whichever one it is you might be better to pose the question in that section of the forum with a view to increasing the reader count and eliciting the most appropriate guidance to help you answer the question.
HTH.
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violin108 wrote:
I have a setting for the catalogue to be in one file and I import directly from SD card, so I don't think there could be a secret location in between .. So I really don't know
From your text, you have indicated that 396 image files are inside the catalog, that is around 14 GB alone that leaves another 15GB to explain.
Every image has previews and thumbnails, but these should be siginificantly smaller than the image itself.
The data base does not take up much room.
Is it possible that you have deleted images in the CaptureOne Trash?
This is one of the reasons that I prefer to keep my images outside the Capture One catalog, my main catalog with 16000 images would be over 100GB. Copying and backing up will require a lot of space and take a long time, and you are faced with a nightmare if you happen to get a corrupted catalog, which does sometimes happen.
Operating System: OS X 10.12.60 -
Trash is empty.
To change the catalogue in one file into the other type separate folders probably not easy ?0 -
violin108 wrote:
Trash is empty.
To change the catalogue in one file into the other type separate folders probably not easy ?
You can move images from the "In catalog" section of the Folders tool on the Library tab to folders on your file system. You'd have to (1) create the folder on your file system (2) add it to the catalog database using the + button (because the catalog does not keep track of your whole computer, only the folders you add to the catalog) (3) drag and drop the images from the "In catalog" section to the folder of your choice. BUT THE GOLDEN RULE IS DO IT ALL IN THE LIBRARY TOOL IN CAPTURE ONE.
Obviously it would be a good idea to try this out on a few test images first. And note that your catalog can include a mixture of "managed" (in catalog) images and referenced (on your hard drive) images at the same time.
Ian0 -
I have Mac and when I try to do "View Package content", each folder an has infinite number of subfolders (without any obvious logic), in some of them just 1 or 2 photos, so it seems almost impossible to think of picking them all.
The truth is that out of all these photos just a fraction is processed. Is it possible to export a photo from C1 including all the made adjustments and to import it in the new catalogue including these open adjustments ?0 -
violin108 wrote:
I have Mac and when I try to do "View Package content", each folder an has infinite number of subfolders (without any obvious logic), in some of them just 1 or 2 photos, so it seems almost impossible to think of picking them all.
The truth is that out of all these photos just a fraction is processed. Is it possible to export a photo from C1 including all the made adjustments and to import it in the new catalogue including these open adjustments ?
As Ian3 has said, the correct approach is to do it by dragging from the "In catalog" section of the Folders tool on the Library tab to folders on your file system, not the way you have attempted. Besides needless complexity, the way you have attempted leads to Capture one issues as it asks What happened to my files!!
If you will click on the "In catalog" section of the Folders tool on the Library tab in Capture One you will not see the complex folder structure, you will see the image files. Moving the files according to Ian3's method is not so hard, and useful to know as ocsionally when importing files one makes an error, and the files have to moved out of the catalog.Ian3 wrote:
You can move images from the "In catalog" section of the Folders tool on the Library tab to folders on your file system. You'd have to (1) create the folder on your file system (2) add it to the catalog database using the + button (because the catalog does not keep track of your whole computer, only the folders you add to the catalog) (3) drag and drop the images from the "In catalog" section to the folder of your choice. BUT THE GOLDEN RULE IS DO IT ALL IN THE LIBRARY TOOL IN CAPTURE ONE.0 -
My bad - sorry ...I found that among the photos there are few videos left 😊 When looking at "show the package content" on Mac, I just wonder about the logic of those many subfolders while half of them are empty ... 0 -
violin108 wrote:
My bad - sorry ...I found that among the photos there are few videos left 😊 When looking at "show the package content" on Mac, I just wonder about the logic of those many subfolders while half of them are empty ...
It's logic for application internals, very different from logic for humans. Aperture has a similar structure - nothing to worry about.0
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