Importing a C1 catalogue with referenced folders

Permanently deleted user

• May 14, 2020 21:36

Hello All,

This seems very basic, but no matter how I try I am getting nowhere with trying to solve this problem.

I am on Windows 10 using C1-20

I work with referencing catalogs, images imported to folders on a drive by capture date. For quite a while I was doing this on a small laptop, then dumping them to a larger drive for backup.

I ended up with numerous catalogs, each referencing a different portion of my image folders

Now I would like to import each catalog into a master catalog while maintaining my folder structure. It seems if you import a catalog with referenced images, you have no choice but to dump them within the new catalog as managed files?!

And once I manage to import the catalogs...If I ever do... I would plan to move my images, browsing through my new master catalog, into a new, larger location. Keeping my folder structure would require me to grab groups of folders at a time to move them, but this seems impossible? I can only move one folder at a time? Is this a Windows issue?

David Grover says "don't be a dummy, do all file operations from within C1" but I don't know how to do this moving one folder at a time...

Any help, insight, workarounds would be much appreciated.

Cheers,

Pat

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  Travis Singleton

  • May 17, 2020 14:06

  I just did what you are trying to do and did not have the same experience. I have all my photos on an external drive. When I import them into Capture one it creates folders and subfolders on the external drive based on image date.
  I had 4 catalogs on the go, one for each era of time usually about 2-3 years each based on when I moved towns. Each catalog was referenced to the external drive with the catalog file residing on the same external drive.
  I recently combined the 4 into one master catelog of 77k images.
  When I used to "Import Catalog...Import Capture One Catalog" menu option it maintained the reference to the external drive.

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  Permanently deleted user

  • May 19, 2020 21:33

  Hi Travis, thanks for getting back to me!

  You are totally right... now I cannot recreate the issue using my work machine (Windows 10). I was having issues with this more than a month ago, and getting nowhere with support (as I guess it's a non-issue?!), that I forget what I may have been doing differently. Maybe it is a Windows 7 thing? I will have to try and recreate when I have time, as a sanity check. Support would just repeat the same thing you were saying and point me to short article I had already read...

  Catalogs merged!

  Now if I could just select and move multiple folders at once... time to install 20.1 and see...

  Cheers!

   

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