Merging Adjustments from laptop to desktop.
Hi all,
I am struggling to figure out this basic workflow. I have a laptop and a desktop. Of course when I travel I use my laptop (OSX) for editing images, and when I'm home I have a master catalog on the desktop (Windows 10). When I come back from travelling, I want to merge my edits to the master collection. Pretty standard workflow so far.
I tried many different things, such as exporting catalog from the laptop and trying to import it on the desktop, but either I'm doing something wrong or it seems extremely buggy. Naturally the folder paths are different so I am asked to browse to the folder with the images, which I do, but after importing I often get empty and duplicated folders, and many images missing.
In this last journey, no images came through.
Now whenever I try to import again the software just freezes, I made a couple of bugreports about it.
I think it's pretty common for people to want to get their adjustments back to the master collection, so how are people doing it? It seems like a minefield to do it right.
I have to say I'm a bit underwhelmed in that regard. I would much rather the adjustments to be simple files that I drop in the photo folders and be done with it. At the age that the competition has automatic cloud synchronization across all sorts of devices, I am struggling to even do this manually.
Any assistance would be appreciated!
I am struggling to figure out this basic workflow. I have a laptop and a desktop. Of course when I travel I use my laptop (OSX) for editing images, and when I'm home I have a master catalog on the desktop (Windows 10). When I come back from travelling, I want to merge my edits to the master collection. Pretty standard workflow so far.
I tried many different things, such as exporting catalog from the laptop and trying to import it on the desktop, but either I'm doing something wrong or it seems extremely buggy. Naturally the folder paths are different so I am asked to browse to the folder with the images, which I do, but after importing I often get empty and duplicated folders, and many images missing.
In this last journey, no images came through.
Now whenever I try to import again the software just freezes, I made a couple of bugreports about it.
I think it's pretty common for people to want to get their adjustments back to the master collection, so how are people doing it? It seems like a minefield to do it right.
I have to say I'm a bit underwhelmed in that regard. I would much rather the adjustments to be simple files that I drop in the photo folders and be done with it. At the age that the competition has automatic cloud synchronization across all sorts of devices, I am struggling to even do this manually.
Any assistance would be appreciated!
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I generally work in Sessions, not catalogs. I'd suggest that you could use a session on the laptop at least. You can then connect to your laptop across your network and import the images from the session into your catalog (or into a session on the desktop in my case). Or you can copy the whole travelling session onto a USB drive and move it over. Be sure to check the box to include existing adjustments. You can either import the whole session into your catalog, or you can import just the contents of specific folders. I have generally done some work on the images on the laptop, especially some culling, so I move over only the contents of the Selects folder, and perhaps any processed output from the Output folder.
You don't say whether your catalog contains managed or referenced images. If you wanted to use referenced images you'd need to move them to the desktop, in which case you'd want to copy the whole session from the laptop to the desktop, perhaps using a USB drive. If you use managed images, then of course C1 will import them into the catalog.
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Hi Ian,
thanks a lot for the reply.
I am using referenced files in both the laptop and the desktop.
I'll try using sessions for editing next time. For my existing photos, there is no option to export the edited files as a Session, only as a Catalog.
I went ahead and synchronized my folders with all the new photos and tried importing again a few times. This time it matched the photos and asked me if I want to existing or the importing variant. I chose the importing variant.
Apparently this time it succeeded to bring the adjustments in a couple of photos, bu still nothing in all the others.. I really don't get why it's only succeeding in a tiny percentage of the photos...0 -
Ok I think I finally did it.
Indeed the software seems to be quite a bit buggy in that regard.
So I Opened the catalog instead of importing, and the Locate Folder worked, sort of.
It matched all the photos and loaded the adjustments, but it created 1 folder per photo and I ended up with hundreds of folders.
Restarting Capture One fixed that and all the folders were merged into the 2 folders I had. So, as I mentioned, a bit buggy.
But now I had a catalog with my local folder structure and all the adjustments, so going back to my master catalog and importing this new local catalog succeeded in loading all the adjustments correctly.
Was a bit clunky figuring out a way, I hope there will be improvements in that area in future versions.0 -
Hmm for me working on laptop and desktop works very well.
On the road I use the laptop and use session. I sort and edit the images within the session.
Once I am home I either just copy the whole session to my pc and keep on working within that session or I import the session in my catalog (open catalog -> import session). I never had any issues importing my session into a catalog... it just shows up as an "project" and includes all adjustments, sorting in albums, color tags I did in the session.
Maybe you should try to use Sessions on your laptop?0
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