How to work with Google Drive?

This is not a Google Drive question 😉 Rather:

What is the best way to make Google Drive and Capture One work together?

My current workflow is
- to shoot photos,
- download them locally into a directory with meaningful name (e.g. 2015-03-08 - myplace), then
- move them straight into a directory monitored by Google Drive Sync

This has the effect that all my photos are always on Google Drive.

Now Capture One 8 comes in - start, create new session (just for the heck of it), drag one photo from above directory into strip. And now Capture One creates a new subdirectory of 300 MB for JPEG/RAW pairs of 1.90 GB.

So
- 300 MB takes considerable time to upload
- 300 MB eats away from my storage rented from Google

I would like to
- keep my current directory structure (sort of session-based)
- keep using Google Drive
- make sure that all *vital* Capture One data is (also) on Google Drive
- keep upload and storage on Google Drive under control

Any advice?

Many thanks in advance!

Paul Steunebrink

March 14, 2015 19:46

Have you tried to create a catalog instead of a session? A catalog keeps all previews and adjustments central. Place the catalog on your Google Drive with the images.

I run a catalog on a Dropbox shared folder for some years (!) now, images inside catalog, and catalog with images are accessible to the user I share the folder with. Different scenario to yours, just like to share. 😉

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