Trouble downgrading from 13.1 to 13.0. Pics in catalog, but no masks.
I recently upgraded to C1 13.1 on Mac running OSX 10.14.6 I was enjoying everything, except I found a pretty significant bug. Color editor settings on layers would disappear when you clicked around in the different layers. For example, I'd have a "skin" layer, draw a mask, make an adjustment with the skin tone feature...go back to the background layer...but when I'd return to the skin layer, the skin tone settings would disappear. That's a big deal to me. Supposedly, I have the bug reported, but based on the followup issue, I'm not holding my breath.
So, once I got to a point I could downgrade back to 13.0, I did so. I've never done this part before, maybe I did something wrong, I don't know, but tech support kept reference the same article, no matter how I tried to explain that it wasn't working for me and YES I did make my backups with 13.0, before I upgraded.
My catalog is named "My First C1 Catalog" which is terribly original, I know. So when I try to open up my newly reinstalled 13.0 it was looking for that name and (obviously) couldn't open up the catalog from it's normal location. No shocker there. So I opened up one of my old blank catalogs and tried to do the Restore Catalog option. I could navigate where I needed to, but couldn't "see" any options from within C1, even though I could see them in my Mac Finder. They are there. To be clear, in C1 I can navigate to the backups, just none of the .cocatalogdb options are selectable.
I started to wonder if it's a naming thing...like, maybe it's ONLY going to restore from a catalog with the exact same name. So I created a new catalog, in a different location, but with the name I was looking for. No luck restoring.
Ok...starting to get a little panicked. In desperation and curiosity, I decided to see if I could open one of the backup files directly from finder, since I was literally looking at them. Sure enough, it works. It even opens to the last picture I was working on, at that time. Success?!? Well, yes, but with a problem. All of my mask work was gone. Not the layers or the settings on those layers, but the actual drawings of the mask. This is kind of a big deal to me since I'm having to return to a job and I want the pics I'm working on to look like what I've already delivered.
Now, that I was actually in C1, looking at the pics I was after, I think I'll try to restore the catalog...maybe that will fix the lack of masks. Nope. As far as I can tell, the restore catalog opinion doesn't see ANYTHING it can use to store from, even though I'm literally using it as a catalog.
Any ideas how I can get my Catalog working with my mask work preserved?
Thank you for your time!
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Hi Steven,
I'm affraid it won't be possible : the layers functions in 13.1 look different from those of 13.0, which means that, very likely, 13.0 couldn't read adjustments made with tools introduced with 13.1, and specifically the layers adjustments and maskings.
Did you, by chance, try to uninstall/reinstall 13.1 in order to check if your skin tone layer issue is solved ? It works well with me, and I don't think it is a bug.
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Hey Robert!
The masks I'm referring to were made in 13.0, before the upgrade. In fact, some very old stuff isn't showing up with masks.
I tried reinstalling 13.1 just in case there was a slightly newer build or whatever it's called, but I just did kind of a drag and drop on that.
I've never looked and don't have time at this second, because I'm about to be in a shoot, but how would you go about a clean install, but still keep all my presets, workspaces, styles, etc.?
In a perfect world, there'd be an update to the bug (Jack at C1 called it that), when I get done this afternoon. But since we don't live in a perfect world, I just need to see if I can see my old masks, in 13.0, till 13.1 fixes. Then I can maybe harmonize my different projects into a 13.1 catalog...eventually.
Any ideas about restoring or why that's not happening.
I'm trying to figure out the difference between a .cocatalog and .cocatalogdb (when seem to be the backups, but openable).
I'm also trying to figure if there's an exact naming that has to sync up across the naming. I don't know. I'm grasping at straws.
But to be clear, I'm back in 13.0, looking for 13.0 masks :-)
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Hi Steven
C1 backs up the catalogue when you upgrade.
So you can restore the set up just before the move to 13.1 state. Asssuming you catalog is called xxx
1. Make a backup copy your current version of xxx.cocatalog.
2. Right click on xxx.cocatalog and select Show Package Contents. You will now be seeing the catalogue bundle
3. You should see an xxx.cocatalogdb and at least xxx.cocatalogdb.backup (there are more versions if you haven't cleaned up from previous upgrades).
4. You can save the xxx.cocatalogdb file somewhere else, then rename the xxx.cocatalogdb.backup to xxx.cocatalog.
5, You can now close the close the window, start C1 13.0. and then open xxx.cocatalog.
6. You might need to force C1 to regenerate previews to force it to reevaluate the raw files.
Good luck!
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Anwar...
You beautiful, magnificent human being!
I think it worked!
I'm looking at the specific folder that I want to work where I had 2 pics that I edited for a client and I see the masks :-D
So help me on my thinking moving forward...
-When there is an update to 13.1, I'll just start back by updating this catalog that was created by the renaming the backup file, correct?
-I have 3 small projects that I struggled through in 13.1, with the bug, that I exported as separate catalogs. When 13.1 is fixed, I'll be able to import them, everything will be synced and I can sail off into the sunset, right? :-)
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Hi Steven
Glad to hear that it worked for you!
Yes, you will be able to just open this catalogue in the updated 13.1 version. It will prompt you to upgrade the catalogue (at which point C1 will back it up, just in case you need it again!) and you should be able to continue.
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