Support for Dropbox
With Cloud computing being the norm now I would love for C1 to leverage the power of Cloud computing platforms such as iCloud, Dropbox, Box, OneDrive etc. to be able to store my Catalogues to and work from multiple machines on the same catalogue. It seems archaic to me to work with a USB SSD to work from multiple machines, this is just not resilient enough.
Catalogue backups are great, but I want my entire Catalogue and it's entire image library to be directly accessible from a cloud service, in my case Dropbox.
Apple's Photo's app does this already with iCloud. LR has it's own proprietary solution (which i dont like as I dont want to subscribe to yet "another" cloud service. But in principle I do want C1 to fully support Dropbox.
Appreciate this being seen as a major priority. Thx James
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It already does. I've been using both C1 and LR catalogs on Dropbox for years. No issues as long as the catalogs are closed before they're opened on a different machine. There is no technical reason for explicit cloud support in an application when cloud services operate at the file system level.
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Hi Seb, good to know you have found no issues. Just Capture One technical support don't recommend this and I for one would like it "officially" supported. And your recommendations make perfect sense, thank you! James
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They're playing it safe. The risk of corruption is real if someone isn't careful to make sure catalogs are closed and fully synced before opening on another machine. It's easy to get oneself in trouble. It makes much more sense for Phase One to simply discourage the behavior than try to troubleshoot incidences of people getting in over their heads.
That being said, as long as those two boxes are checked, it operates no differently than any normal installation simply by virtue of being stored on a local file system. Whatever file shuffling happens in the background is totally invisible to the application.
This does not apply to storing catalogs on network attached storage. Last time I checked (roughly a year ago) Adobe, Phase One and Apple all actively warn against storing the catalogs on any kind of NAS setup.
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