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Can I Duplicate RAW Files To Other External Hard Drives Using C1

peter riding

I have very many thousands of RAW files from up to 2 decades ago archived in individual clients folders on numerous external hard drives. It was never worth the time or effort to create monster libraries or databases.

I want to pull just a handful of files from multiple previous clients folders and re-edit the files to todays standards. However there appears to be no way to duplicate and save these RAW files to a current drive; all that is available is Export, not RAW. Obviously I can do it by copy>paste each RAW file in Windows Explorer but that also needs the Proxy Thumbnail and Settings files if I am to be able to view what the original edits were like whilst on the current drive. I had hoped that a New Varient or a Clone Varient could be selected and that alone moved locations using the Selects Folder functionality but that does not work - it moves the original as well as the Varients.

Any ideas, thanks.

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  • OddS.
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    > peter riding: ...all that is available is Export, not RAW

    File->Export->Originals no longer available? (https://support.captureone.com/hc/en-us/articles/360002639978-Exporting-originals ) 

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  • peter riding

    Thanks very much, that did it. Yes I can now duplicate the RAW files complete with the relevant settings without disappearing the "originals" :- )

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  • Walter Rowe
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    Are all these raw files stored in sessions? You can import them and include adjustments (checkbox) in the import dialog and tell it to copy them to your desired location. Use the File > Import tool.

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  • peter riding

    Thanks Walter, tried it, that has done the trick as well. Silly of me not to know but in my defence often I've been so busy that I have not looked through the parts of various manuals that were not mega-relevant to me. I use Export a lot to for multiple simultaneous recipe outputs but I ought to have read more of the Rawcaptureguide's I have which are written by Nils Wille Christoffersen and watched more videos from Paul Reiffer etc Thanks again.

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  • Walter Rowe
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    Glad that also works for you. It's a complex program. I still have plenty to learn.

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