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Cloud Storage - only!

Richard Allen
I have a system where my main catalogue is on my computer C: drive whilst all of my images are stored on an external hard drive and then backed up to Google Drive.

Is it possible to have all of my catalogues and images on Google Drive and point Capture One to those files?

I can't find a way of doing so as when attempting to create a new catalogue on Google Drive via Capture One I can't find a way to select Google Drive as it doesn't give me any option to do so.

I hope that made sense? 😊
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  • SFA
    Richard,

    Do you have really really fast broadband in Waltham Abbey?

    Personally I can't think of any good reason, other than as a remote backup, to have all of my data stored in the cloud but maybe I am missing something.



    Grant
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  • Richard Allen
    Hello Grant. 😊

    I have a 100Mb broadband connection.

    I was thinking of doing this as I could then use the hard drive that has my images on it as a backup drive for the drive that has all of my videos on.

    It's more of a thought at the moment than anything else, wondering if it's possible and if so how I would tell Capture One that my files now reside on Google Drive rather than my external hard drive?
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  • SFA
    Richard,

    In theory my connection is not much slower but the theory and the minute by minute deliverables are rarely the same and once you have left the local settings behind and opened yourself to the potential vagaries of web traffic management around the world at all times things may get "interesting".

    If you hardly have any images or catalogues I suppose in theory it might be viable - but then would not save you much disk space.

    Disk is pretty cheap these days. I really don't see what you might gain as an individual subscriber.

    If you were a large corporate with a huge overhead cost and a massive bandwidth commitment it might be a different story but images are relatively data volume intensive compared to most sensibly set up business application systems - and of course video even more so.

    As things stand at the moment I have my doubts that you would find performance encouraging whatever the technical answer might be.


    Grant
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  • SFA
    Richard,

    I may have missed something here but having checked out Google drive from the relevant web site it looks like a straight forward backup and sharing facility with, potentially, under certain circumstances the option to access your "home" machine.

    As far as I can tell it will sync folders on your devices to its storage or allow you to collect files from Google Drive on a machine that has access to it. However it still requires the initial sync folder to exist somewhere at your end on at least one device and is not, so far as I can tell, interactive storage as such. It does not claim to act as a remote drive.

    In which case you are not about to save your local disk space anyway.

    You could copy the files to Google rather than Sync them and that might save disk space for a while but if you want to work with them again you would need the disk space available to copy them back.

    I note that the "free" space allowed is about 1/4 of the size of one of my typical sessions. (It's much the same of course for most of the other services of the same type.)

    What you are really looking for, I think, is some sort of "network connected" drive in the cloud. Whether there is something around for non-business use that would make sense financially (when compared to simply buying an external drive) I am not sure. It's not something I have looked into so I will be interested to see what other responses you get for the question.


    Grant
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  • Paul Steunebrink
    [quote="Richard_Allen" wrote:
    I have a system where my main catalogue is on my computer C: drive whilst all of my images are stored on an external hard drive and then backed up to Google Drive.

    Is it possible to have all of my catalogues and images on Google Drive and point Capture One to those files?

    I can't find a way of doing so as when attempting to create a new catalogue on Google Drive via Capture One I can't find a way to select Google Drive as it doesn't give me any option to do so.

    I hope that made sense? 😊

    Hi Richard,

    Is your Google Drive showing up in Windows Explorer? I am not behind a Windows system right now, but have been using Dropbox for this purpose since CO7 catalogs were available. I can not think is why it would not work.
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  • SFA
    FWIW I spent some time hacking around today to see what I could do with a MS Onedrive account.

    MS offers nothing I can find in terms of mapping as a drive rather than a sync folder set up.

    I found a suggestion on line from a few months back that looked simple enough but the method of getting the connection's ID seemed to be broken. (Or maybe MS have fixed a potential flaw?).

    After a bit of thought I found another way to get at the ID and created a mapped drive with no obvious folder or disk space utilisation on the PC. However it looked more than a little flakey to start with (Explorer was not at all impressed) and even what then settled down after re-starting Explorer it was incredibly slow. Not just unusably slow but incredibly slow.

    I'll see what happens after a re-boot at some point but my initial reaction is that it would not be a practical proposition at all at this time.

    Presumably others (or maybe Mac based access options) are far better at communicating - or I have missed something, or MS would prefer to strangle the direct read access despite offering a wizard to set it up.


    Grant
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