Turning off backup of a catalog
I am new to Capture One.
I want to use an external hard drive because my internal hard drive doesn't have much space. I connected a USB hard drive and when I import images from the memory card to Mac, I selected the external drive. Thinking that "Enable backup" was talking about a backup of the catalog information, not the image files, I checked it on. But after the import is done, I found the photo image files in the internal drive as well as the external drive. I don't want to keep these duplicate images in the internal drive! (My external drive will be backed up to a cloud by a backup program.)
(1) How do I turn off the backup feature for this catalog?
(2) Can I just remove the image files that are already made from the catalog directory using Finder? Or do I have to use a special command of Capture One ?
I want to use an external hard drive because my internal hard drive doesn't have much space. I connected a USB hard drive and when I import images from the memory card to Mac, I selected the external drive. Thinking that "Enable backup" was talking about a backup of the catalog information, not the image files, I checked it on. But after the import is done, I found the photo image files in the internal drive as well as the external drive. I don't want to keep these duplicate images in the internal drive! (My external drive will be backed up to a cloud by a backup program.)
(1) How do I turn off the backup feature for this catalog?
(2) Can I just remove the image files that are already made from the catalog directory using Finder? Or do I have to use a special command of Capture One ?
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Hi there
the backup function only take the catalog
so what you are seeing is
could be files that was not in the catalog when you moved it
or if you are using one drive or similar back from the cloud based service
the photos you see are they also in the catalog
Henrik0 -
There are two backup options in CO.
a) The 'Backup Catalog' function only backs up the catalog database.
b) There is a 'Backup To' tool in the 'Import Images' window, too. It creates a backup of the imported images on a 2nd location.
(1) Image backups are controlled using 'Import Images' - 'Backup To'. Disable the 'Backup enabled' option and it will stop creating copies of the images during import.
(2) You can remove the images from the 'Location' defined in 'Import Images' - 'Backup To'. They are just copies of the imported ones.
But make sure you don't delete images from a folder used in 'Import To', or images that were imported referenced.
Regards,
Hans0
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