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Is there a way to compare two sessions?

NN635547726073960640UL
I've kind of got myself into a sticky situation. I have two sessions named exactly the same. It looks like I may have inadvertently moved the session to the wrong folder when attempting to perform a backup.

So now I've got two sessions and I'm not sure which is the latest. Now to add to this problem, it's from a while ago and when I opened the first session is C1, I clicked the upgrade session button so looking a the file dates isn't going to help much.

Any ideas?

Feeling dumb... but I hope there is a solution.
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  • SFA
    For each session you can, via Windows, do some basic checks on number of folders and number of files and maybe some dates - especially in the supporting files in the CaptureOne folder alongside all of the images. The folder and file Properties summary are probably your starting point.

    If you upgraded a Session the folder should also contain a backup of the previous version of the session.

    If you are comfortable dabbling with Windows at the commend line level you should be able to run a comparison of folders and even files if you think either or both may have been edit as they exist in parallel. But that might only be somethin to consider if the previous suggestions do not throw up a clear means of identification.


    HTH.


    Grant
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  • NN635547726073960640UL
    Thanks grant,

    It appears they all contain the same in the folders as far as folders and raw files go. I didn't think about looking at the backup file dates. I do think I've got an idea of which was used at output just based on the output files but I wasn't as organized way back when (part of the reason I've run into this is I'm spending some time getting things reorganized)

    I think I'll probably lean towards one of them and get rid of the other if it falls in line with the backup file dates and matches what I think was the latest.

    thanks again...
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  • SFA
    It's not the dates of the backup files I was thinking of, though they may be useful.

    More that if you have converted one of the sessions as part of an upgrade, but not the other, there should be a cosessiondb created for the previous version session so that, should you need to, you could sort out renaming it and re-open it in the previous version that it relates to.

    That would at least tell you whether one or both sessions have been converted.

    Thinking about that - it you converted and then made some edits you may have been tempted to also update the edited images to the new version's Engine. In that case the .cos files might be different in that for each variant (i.e. each Image (Variant) and any Variant edits of that image that you may have made) the 'Engine' version used will be recorded in the file and Windows can be used to search and view the contents of the files.

    That said unless you think there is something very specific in an edit or two that is absolutely important to you it may only be significant to know that the two sessions have the same number of folders and files and the files have the same names and sizes. I tend to find that if I revisit old image I re-edit them anyway more often than not.


    HTH.


    Grant
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  • NN635547726073960640UL
    Ok, I see what you were saying. I noted that it looks like both were converted and all file dates seems very similar. The way I finally made the decision was the cache folder and captureone folder in the capture folder were later dates. Combined with the fact that it had a larger database file and after looking through everything it looked like that single session was further along in editing than the other.

    Your point about reediting is probably pretty accurate as well. This one happens to be client work so I was hoping to at least have some variants that were what was delivered. My archiving game really needs to be stepped up, again organization on my part.

    appreciate all the help. Ultimately It really came down to just looking at some of the "other" files capture one leaves laying around the folders to figure it out.
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