changing location of raw files library (and session folders)

picman2

• March 10, 2010 21:15

Hello all,

I'd be grateful if someone could help me with the following. At the moment I have my Capture One Library (very large >200GB) with all basic raw files in the pictures folder of my home folder next to all my session folders (each very small 500kb). I want to move the library to a separate hard disk (and if need be also all the session folders) and then continue working as if nothing has changed. So I guess at some place I will have to make C1 understand that the basic files (and maybe the session files too) have moved. How do I do this in the most safe and elegant way? How do I see to it that after having moved everything not all references from sessions to raw files are lost?

Thanks!

Cheers, Bob.

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  Paul Steunebrink

  • March 11, 2010 10:35

  Hmm, I sounds you've done something that makes it complicated, not sure though.
  
  In the session concept, folders are relative to the parent session folder. This makes moving around easy. Just move it. Huh?
  
  However, it seems from your description that you have stored your images folder not relative but absolute to your session folder. If that is the case, and when I am correct, then you have to update to the new location manually for each session. Note that you can move session folders and their contents to another drive on your system, but the default Capture One Library not (yes, you can but CO will recreate it the next start).

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  picman2

  • March 11, 2010 15:25

  [quote="Paul_E" wrote:
  
  However, it seems from your description that you have stored your images folder not relative but absolute to your session folder. If that is the case, and when I am correct, then you have to update to the new location manually for each session. Note that you can move session folders and their contents to another drive on your system, but the default Capture One Library not (yes, you can but CO will recreate it the next start).

  
  
  Yes, absolute links. For no particular reason, I just did not take notice of that aspect and each time I loaded new raw files they went to the Capture One Library folder on my startup disk and so did the sessions, apparently with absolute links. I have no problem changing these to relative (if possible). All I want to do is get the large folder with raw files on an external harddisk, and have my sessions reference them there. I do not care where the sessions go, they do not take up much space. Do I understand you correctly that this is not possible?

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