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Same catalogs on two computers with different disk labels?

Nobukazu
Hi, this could be an FAQ in which case my apologies and my TIA for giving me some pointers.

I have C1Pro9 installed on two PCs (Win10 desktops) in separate offices and would like to use basically the same catalog there. Copying the image and catalog files is no problem via USB3 portable HDs. The hierarchy structures of the picture folders on the two computers are identical.

The problem is that these two computers are having different disk labels for the picture folders, one E:\MyPicture\ and the other J:\MyPicture\ . Is there a workable solution for this situation via some clever use of C1Pro? Or is it that I should reconfigure the PCs so that they use the picture folders/files sit on HDDs with the same disk label?

- Nobu
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  • Nobukazu
    With regards to the question that I posted yesterday, I looked into the catalog file and found that the disk labels (C:\ or D:\ or some such) are hard-coded many, many times there in the file.

    While maybe I can binary edit such entries with a script for use at PCs with different disk labels, the conversion is a bit cumbersome, error-prone and likely to become a plain pain in the long run.

    So I tweaked the disk labelling on one of the two PCs so that now the MyPicture folders of both PCs sit on disks with the same label. I don't know if this has been FAQ'ed already, but if not, it would be a useful tip for users who want to copy and use the same C1P catalogs across multiple PCs.
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  • Permanently deleted user

    Maybe we could use symlinks, if C1 supports those. So one would only have to change the central symlink on each PC.

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  • OddS.

    > Noob with a Nikon: Maybe we could use symlinks

    Symlinks should work on a Mac, the OS is is still Unix, I think. Drive letters (E:, J:) indicate that Nobukazu uses Windows. I can't tell how many times I have seen "symlinks now work in Windows" over the years. People I trust says it is not so, though it may work for some time for some uses.

     

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  • OddS.

    > Nobukazu:  ...maybe I can binary edit such entries with a script

    No need if you know, or are willing to learn, a little SQL. The *.cocatalogdb is a SQLite (actually SQLite3) database file and SQLite tools are free. You should be able to replace hundreds of thousands of drive designators or complete root strings for that matter, in a snap. There is a capable GUI db browser tool, and there is a sqlite3.exe file that you can feed SQL statements from the command line or from a script.

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