Capture one won't import photos, says they are duplicates?
Hi,
I'm running C1 22 Build 15.4.1.7 on a MacBook Pro with Ventura 13.6.3. I'm getting the error message in the attached photo trying to import a folder of photos taken on a Iphone 14 Pro Max. Mostly Iphone raw DNG but some Jpg's as well.
They load up in the import window and look fine, but when I try to import then it just skips over everything.
I just imported two other folders from the same drive into this catalog without any issue. Those were taken with a Sony A7sIII and a Canon G7xMK II, so maybe it's an Iphone 14 issue?
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Are you sure that the images don't already exist in the catalog, which is what it is telling you? Have you looked in the All Images collection?
Ian
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Hi Ian,
Thank you very much - I checked "all images" in my collection, and they didn't appear. But I didn't check the trash, and that's where they were.
I imported them last night, but as the previews were generating I got a call on the computer, so I deleted the import, but didn't clear the trash.
Problem solved - thank you, apologies for a silly question!!
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I don't think you can call it a bug. If it's in the catalog trash, you can drag it out again unless you have emptied the trash. If it let you import it again when it is still in the trash, you could then have two copies of the same image in the catalog.
Ian
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If it's in the Catalog Trash, it's in the catalog. One could argue that Exclude Duplicates is doing the right thing. You might have deliberately moved it to Trash and thus it should be skipped when Exclude Duplicates is enabled.
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A better implementation would tell you WHERE it already exists, not simply skip over it. It could put it in the Event log so you could look for it if you didn't expect a file to be skipped.
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If that were done, you would then want an overlay indicator telling you it represents a hidden item. This gets more and more complicated as it requires more and more attributes. The more complicated, the more room for bugs and errors.
I prefer it simpler. I know to look in the Trash if something doesn't import when Exclude Duplicates is enabled.
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It is a little different in this case in that the Capture One catalog trash is not the same thing as the system trash. You can send something to the catalog trash, and even empty the catalog trash, and the original file can still be where it was in your file system (depending on the options you chose when you emptied the trash).
Ian
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@... - I'm not really trying to defend anything. But I suspect that just allowing the image to be imported again could be a recipe for creating more trouble than it solves. For instance, if you have done some editing to an image before inadvertently sending it to the trash, and then you reimport it, would that re-import pick up the previous edits or not? What would happen if you had different edits to two different versions of the image?
I agree with the comment from Walter Rowe that it would be helpful if the error message could tell you where in the catalog the image already exists, and that, it seems to me, would be a better solution than importing it again.
Ian
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