Share a Catalog file + media from a Dropbox location

NN192758UL

• 2. August 2016 18:37

Hi, I would like to work with both a C1 catalog and images placed on Dropbox.
I want to access the same catalog from 2 different Mac computers/El Capitan on 1 of them - Yosemite on the other.

One of the computers can successfully reference the catalog+files from the Dropbox but when I open the same catalog on the other computer it shows media as "offline" - probably because the path to the dropbox is different on the 2 computers.
I have experimented with locked/unlocked setting from the file menu but with no results so far.
Is this possible in C1 v.8 or v9 ?

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  brianmerwin

  • 7. August 2016 00:45

  So the summary is that there are very few cataloging systems that are designed to be used on a network/cloud drive like this so you might hack something together but it's going to be problematic. The catalog is intended to be used by one computer at a time only.
  
  The catalog is "locked" because when you've got it open on one computer, a lock file is generated. When that lock file is present, the catalog can't be opened/altered until the lock file goes away.
  
  Theoretically you could use this on multiple machines (though I strongly advise against it) by simply making sure that after working in the catalog on one machine, it actually gets closed properly (so that lock file goes away) - and then making sure dropbox is actively syncing so that when you go to the other computer, the catalog and lock files are synced already.
  
  I'd strongly advise against trying to do this simply because it's going to be slow, and network syncing of catalog files like this will seriously increase your chances of just having the catalog become corrupt. Also, Phase One will definitely not offer any technical support for this scenario.
  
  You'll probably have better luck using sessions for this than catalogs, but similar problems could occur.
  
  So basically... it might work, but if so, you're still sort of tempting fate.

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  NN192758UL

  • 7. August 2016 21:04

  Thanks Brian,
  
  As you suggested - I actually figured out already to use sessions instead of catalogs with Dropbox.
  Sessions seem to easily browse my dropbox image folders (from any computer) and link the C1 metadata folders that is put there automatically by C1 - once they have been imported/synchronized.

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