Issue with creating a session in an existing folder

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• June 24, 2019 05:35

So I have about a half million photos or so organized by folders organized into sessions... however most of these were done in lightroom and I have no interest in importing these into some capture one catalog. What I would like to do is simply create a capture one session right in the folder that the files exist without actually importing the files into a subdirectory... is there an easy way to do this?

Also it would be nice if "open with capture one" option would simply create a new session in the existing folder and import the images selected.

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  Ian Wilson

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  • June 24, 2019 07:53

  

  You can create a Capture One session (anywhere you like) and add the folder with your images as a session favourite: do that by navigating to the folder in question in the Library tab of Capture One then right clicking and choosing to make it a session favourite. If there are a lot of images in the folder, you may have to be patient with Capture One while it generates previews. If you have the images in a lot of subfolders of the folder in question, that may not be the best approach though, as you'd need to add each subfolder as a favourite. In that case, perhaps you should rethink your unwillingness to make a catalog with these images. You can create a catalog, then import into it the images you want. If you use them as referenced images, they don't have to be moved - set the destination as current location. Capture One then catalogues them in its database, and creates previews inside the catalog but without moving the original files. And in the import dialog, you can check the box to include subfolders. Again, be prepared to be patient while Capture One generates the previews.
  
  Ian

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