Catalogue and subfolders
I am relatively new to Capture One and this is maybe a stupid question. However, I didn't find any good answer to it hence I give it a try.
I have a large folder structure (under Folders -> External HD -> ...) in Capture One 22 and decided to create individual catalogs out of it so I don't have to have all the folders always open. Since all data is sitting on an external HD I assume this will slow my workflow down.
Let's assume I want to create a catalog from one of my many Capture One folders e.g. "birds of prey". This folder contains of e.g. 3 subfolders like eagles, kites, buzzards.
When I now create a catalog and open this catalog, then all images are under "in Catalog" but I can't see anywhere anymore any of the 3 subfolders. There's show and hide folders in the hierarchy but this doesn't do the trick.
So maybe I am doing something wrong but all I need is to have under "in Catalog" the three subfolders.
Thanks for any advice, much appreciated
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If you see images under "in Catalog" then you have imported them from your folders into the catalog (that is folder "Originals" if you run Windows, or in the catalog "package" if you run Mac (I don't know the correct wording for the Mac though). That means you made a copy of your images, not sure that's what you wanted.
"In catalog" usually does not have any subfolders.
If you want to keep only you originals files and don't want to copy them all into the catalog then you need to tell C1 in the import dialog that that should stay where they are, "Import To" "Add to catalog" (in former versions named "Current location")
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But I think that with one big catalog on your internal disk (ideally SSD) and the original images on your harddrive the performance will be similar, if you don't have more than 10k images in the big catalog.
The question is when does C1 need to access the original images on your HDD. When you zoom in more than your preview image allows, depending on image preview size (to be set in preferences).
And of course if you first create the previews (and here it doesn't matter either as all your images needs to have a preview, regardless in which catalog they are created).
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thanks very much for your swift reply. This would mean that I can mimic my local folder structure in C1 as part of a catalog, correct? And I would need to create individual catalogs pointing to my external files not knowing from a c1 perspective in which folder they are. Is this the correct understanding?
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Maybe the terms you and I use differ and we mean the same, maybe not. Local usually means in the computer, not external HDD.
So, your folder on the external HDD may be something like this:
External HDD:
images\birds\eagles
images\birds\kites
images\birds\titsthen you can import from external HDD:images, include sub folders, import to "add to catalog", this will create a shadow folder structure identical to your external folder structure in the catalog database, these shadow folders will reference to the real folders, the imported images are not getting imported in the narrow sense but are created as thumbnails and previews and are referencing (pointing to) the real images on the HDD.
It does not matter where the catalog file and the accompaing folder like Adjustments, Cache, are located, but they are faster locally (internal disk).
Beware though that the external hdd always has the same drive letter assigened, otherwise the folder and images in the catalog go "offline" (disconnected from their real images on external disk). You can repair this though via the Locate function.
In other words, the folder structure in C1 mimics the real folder structure, but avoid changing the real folder structure or moving images after the import (again, offline) with the Windows Explorer or Mac Finder. Do this kind of folder/file operations IN the catalog, library tool & browser, drag & drop, this will do the corresonding operation on the file system too.
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a yep now I understand what you mean. I think this is something that will work for me. thank you very much for explaining so nicely - this is very much appreciated! I do think this will do the trick for me :)
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You're welcome. I also recommend the videos and the online User Guide
https://learn.captureone.com/#category=109
https://support.captureone.com/hc/en-us/categories/360000279017-User-Guide
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