Copying Session Albums

I have created Session Albums for a project. In this case, I have multiple images with multiple athletes and wanted to create albums that would allow someone to easily find all the shots with a certain player. (I cannot do this with Folders since I am using Folders to segregate the files in a different way). My question is whether the album establishes links relative to the Capture One file, or whether the link is based on absolute paths. Since I have to deliver these files to a client on a posable drive, will the Session albums work when they are on the portable drive after being transferred from the Main Tower Hard Drive? Last time I tried to transfer it to another computer, I got a bunch of "Question Marks" in the albums, but the images in the session folders were fine.

Paul Steunebrink

11. April 2011 07:38

By default, session folders are created relative to the session's main folder and the session file (*.col50). As a result you can move them to a different location on the same system and to another system (but same platform Win or Mac) as long as you keep the set starting from the session's main folder together.

I assume but did not test, that favorites and albums in the session work similar. Because an album (and favorite) are stored in the session file I assume they fully depend on the folder structure to be maintained.

Once you create or assign an absolute instead of relative folder to your session, typically a folder outside the session's main folder, you can end up with a broken link easily.

Perhaps you can do a simple test with the description above. Make a test session, few images, an album and move it around and open it after the move.

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