C1 needs to maintain settings folders in Catalogs

Thomas Geist

• November 10, 2012 01:32

I think the current system of Catalogs being completely self sustained (concerning settings) is a mistake. If a catalog gets corrupt (and C1's verification function seems to be of no use) all you can do is pray that you have an older non-corrupt backup.

Sessions are way more stable there with settings being separate files in the settings subfolders. Just point a new session to your image folder and everything is there. Even if one image's settings were corrupt, not much is lost.

C1 should still write all settings into external files for Catalogs as well. Just as Sessions do. Just as Lightroom does when auto-write to xmp is active. And it could be an option.

This is software used by many professionals and it needs to guarantee safety for all work done.

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  Paul Steunebrink

  • November 10, 2012 03:15

  I agree that stability comes first here. On the other hand there is an advantage in the current solution in that a datase file is faster to read than a collection of settings files, in particular for larger collections. And it is easier to backup. That is exactly what users should do, and do it frequently.

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  ThomasGeist

  • November 12, 2012 17:41

  [quote="Paul_E" wrote:
  I agree that stability comes first here. On the other hand there is an advantage in the current solution in that a datase file is faster to read than a collection of settings files, in particular for larger collections. And it is easier to backup. That is exactly what users should do, and do it frequently.

  
  That's where a manual switch comes in IMO. Again, Lightroom is the inspiration here (sorry ...), where if you have automatic writing of settings to xmp off you can initiate it manually (Cmd/Ctrl+S).
  
  That way you have an error proof system on demand.

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