Writing back-ups to CD/DVD

andreweugene

• 13. März 2006 13:04

Hi,

I need to make space on my computer's hard drive, and am currently doing this by backing up on DVDs mainly, smaller jobs on CD.

I have noticed huge folders within Capture, that don't seem essential, called \"Capture One Settings\", divided into \"Image settings\", \"Previews\" and \"Thumbnails\". If I trash these files, it will probably mean that I would have to redo most of the work again in the unlikely event of needing these images again, but it would save me a lot of space and work.

Have I understood their purpose correctly, or should I leave them in there for future use? They seem sometimes to make up for 50% of file size, but surely if I keep the session icon, I won't need to worry?

I'd be glad for some reassurance, thanks in advance,

andreweugene

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  NN8878311

  • 13. März 2006 16:49

  I trash the Preview & Thumbnails folder and keep the Image Settings folder. This keeps all the adjustments i've made. If i later want to wotk with my pictures i just point C1 to the rawfolder containing the rawfiles and the Capture One Settings folder (now only containg the Image Settings folder). Now C1 needs to rebuild the previews and thumbnails, but all settings are kept.
  
  //Kristofer

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  jjlphoto

  • 19. März 2006 02:29

  I store no data on my boot drive. It's poor OSX technique. Current wisdom is to keep over 50% free for OSX to do its work.
  
  I also empty the Processed folder, and remember to empty the Trash. Rather than store on media, consider backing up to HDs. I have a 4 bay HD enclosure with 3- 250GB HDs, and hot swap bay on the top. I then have 3 HDs for backing up that go in and out of the top bay when it's time to back-up. Those back-up HDs get stored in a safe- supposedly 😉
  
  If you set this up with SATA drives, you may even want to just leave the sessions right on that storage HD and work on them there, but if it you notice a slow down, do a finder move to move the session back to your computer HD.
  
  You could still use CD/DVD media as a last resort back-up, but the best way for that is to put them in a bank safe deposit box and plan to never touch them ever again unless absolutely necessary. I have found it is a huge PITA to use media as a storage method as you have to find them, load them, etc, etc. With a HD method, everthing is always within easy access.

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