If you are upgrading from an earlier major release of Capture One you will need to upgrade any Catalog or Session created with an earlier version if you want to work with it in the newest version of Capture One. The upgrade process updates the database, allowing you to take advantage of any improvements made. Image variants remain the same as the previous settings and adjustments are managed by the version process engine.
Catalogs produced by earlier versions of Capture One must be updated to take advantage of any database and performance enhancements in the latest full release (e.g., from version 20 to 21). Upgrading Catalogs is not required between minor releases (e.g., 23.1 to 23.1.1).
- Choose one of the following options to open an earlier version of a document:
- In the main menu, choose File -> Open… and navigate to the relevant document (i.e., with the .cocatalog extension) and double-click on the file.
- In the main menu, choose File -> Open Recent… and select the relevant document from the list. Note that this menu shows only the recently opened documents.
- In the Finder (macOS) or Explorer (Windows), navigate to the relevant document (i.e., with the .cocatalog extension) and double-click on the file.
- In the main menu, choose File -> Open… and navigate to the relevant document (i.e., with the .cocatalog extension) and double-click on the file.
- Opening the document will display a warning dialog with the options to Upgrade or Cancel. Once the database is upgraded, the variants are not altered and the previous settings and adjustments are preserved from the earlier version of Capture One.
- Click on Upgrade.
Nothing happens to your images, the database is simply upgraded to be compatible with the newer version. This can involve upgrades to the processing engine, for example.
Please note that after upgrading Catalogs/Sessions, you won't be able to revert back, so we recommend to make a backup, just in case you want to use the same database again in previous versions of Capture One.
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Lily - just updated to Big Sur from Mojave (new install) and loaded Capture 20 as before and I get this message when attempting to open my catalog from Capture 20 (that was running on Mojave):
The catalog was saved with Capture One 13.1.2.37 and cannot be read by this version.
Any ideas?
sorry - just fixed it myself - there was a further Capture 20 update and that was able to use my catalog :)
I now own C1 20 Fujifilm and I want to take a look at C1 22 Fujifilm Express.
I get the message that my C1 catalog must be updated. Will my C1 20 still have access to my C1 catalog after updating?
This did get me on the right track, BUT... Would be exceedingly helpful if you put this warning FIRST!: "Please note that after upgrading Catalogs/Sessions, you won't be able to revert back, so we recommend to make the backups just in case you would want to use those again in the previous versions of Capture One." Following your order of instruction had me negate this fact by the time I got to the notice of inability to revert back. Poor form Capture One! Also, this instruction page does need some additional updating, since version 23 behaves a bit differently.
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