Finding a list of missing files
Hi
In my current activity of consolidating aperture, Lightroom into a single capture one 10 catalog, I have yet to find out how to identify a list of 'missing photos'. In other words, I know when I find one how to locate the file but how do I produce a list of missing files across the catalog. I can't see any file location attributes on the filter or smart album.
Thanks
James
In my current activity of consolidating aperture, Lightroom into a single capture one 10 catalog, I have yet to find out how to identify a list of 'missing photos'. In other words, I know when I find one how to locate the file but how do I produce a list of missing files across the catalog. I can't see any file location attributes on the filter or smart album.
Thanks
James
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[quote="NN635982792069627197UL" wrote:
Hi
In my current activity of consolidating aperture, Lightroom into a single capture one 10 catalog, I have yet to find out how to identify a list of 'missing photos'. In other words, I know when I find one how to locate the file but how do I produce a list of missing files across the catalog. I can't see any file location attributes on the filter or smart album.
Thanks
James
I don't think there is a way through the Capture One menu system.
This AppleScript below should do it for you.
Open script editor, open a blank file, copy and paste the code below into it. Compile, and save.
Open the log history window, then run the code. A list of the images with missing files appears in the log history.
global debug, displayDialogonNotFound
set debug to false
set displayDialogonNotFound to false
global maxSearchLevel
-- I have observed that for catalogs of > 5000 -10000 images or so, while the command "get every image" is executing on the entire catalog,
-- Capture One causes an OSX crash by requesting vast amounts of virtual RAM. (a support ticket has been raised)
-- This crash does not happen immediately, it takes a few minutes.
-- On my iMac, once Capture one is using 50GB of virtual RAM, (and is till growing) the only escape is to power cycle the iMac.
-- For that reason, the default search mode is to search all the user collections, but not "All Images"
set SearchAllImages to false -- DO NOT set to true if there are more than 5000 or so images in the catalog
tell application "Capture One 10"
tell document 1
if SearchAllImages then
set maxSearchLevel to 1
set everyCollection to get every collection
set countColls to count of everyCollection
set searchLevel to 0
set nextSearchLevel to searchLevel + 1
if nextSearchLevel ≤ maxSearchLevel then
repeat with c_Counter from 1 to countColls
set searchCollName to (get name of collection c_Counter) as text
if searchCollName = "All Images" then
my search_collection((collection c_Counter), nextSearchLevel)
end if
end repeat
end if
else
set maxSearchLevel to 100
set everyCollection to get every collection
set countColls to count of everyCollection
if countColls = 1 then -- If there are no user collections, there is only the "All Images" collection.
display notification "No User Collections to Search"
error "No User Collections to Search"
end if
set searchLevel to 0
set nextSearchLevel to searchLevel + 1
if nextSearchLevel ≤ maxSearchLevel then
repeat with c_Counter from 1 to countColls
set searchCollName to (get name of collection c_Counter) as text
if searchCollName ≠"All Images" then
my search_collection((collection c_Counter), nextSearchLevel)
end if
end repeat
end if
end if
end tell
end tell
--Handlers -------------------
on search_collection(thisCollection, searchLevel)
-- recursive handler to search a collection and it's subcollections
global debug
global maxSearchLevel
global displayDialogonNotFound
set nextSearchLevel to searchLevel + 1
tell application "Capture One 10"
tell document 1
tell thisCollection
set thisCollName to (get name) as text
set thisCollKind to (get kind) as text
set subCollections to get every collection
set everyImageList to get every image
repeat with thisImage in everyImageList
tell thisImage
set imageName to (get name) as text
set imagepath to get path
end tell
set file_found to "no"
tell my application "Finder"
if exists imagepath as POSIX file then
set file_found to "yes"
end if
end tell
if file_found = "no" then
if displayDialogonNotFound then display dialog imageName & " not found at " & imagepath
log imageName & " not found at " & imagepath & " in " & thisCollKind & " " & thisCollName
end if
end repeat
if debug then log "Done " & thisCollKind & " " & thisCollName & " "
if thisCollKind ≠"project" then -- do not search collections contained inside a project to avoid repeated "hits" of the same image
set nextSearchLevel to searchLevel + 1
if nextSearchLevel ≤ maxSearchLevel then
if debug then log "Searching Below " & thisCollKind & " " & thisCollName
repeat with searchCollection in subCollections
my search_collection(searchCollection, nextSearchLevel)
end repeat
end if
end if
end tell
end tell
end tell
return
end search_collection0 -
Thanks Eric, I'll give it a try.
Shame it's not part of the core product.0 -
[quote="NN635982792069627197UL" wrote:
Thanks Eric, I'll give it a try.
Shame it's not part of the core product.
It took me a couple of hours to research, write and test
With a little more work, I think I can write this so it can be integrated this into the Capture One Scripts Menu (biggest required change is writing out put to a file), and then it will be as if it is part of the product.0 -
Hi Eric,
it's too bad you have to limit the search space because C1 is such a memory hog.
To make sure I understand it correctly: the problem with not being to search all images is that we now can only find missing images when those are part of an album; images that are not part of an album will not be checked.
A full check would then require a first check of which images are not part of an album so that the user can be alerted that not all images have been checked. But, that first check would probably send memory through the roof as well, so we'd back to square one. Sigh.
But I admire you're C1 scripting skills!
Cheers,
Peter.0 -
[quote="peter.f" wrote:
Hi Eric,
it's too bad you have to limit the search space because C1 is such a memory hog.
C1 has a bug that is forcing this choice.
To make sure I understand it correctly: the problem with not being to search all images is that we now can only find missing images when those are part of an album; images that are not part of an album will not be checked.
More or less. "All Images" is a smart album owned by the system; it is not checked. All other collections are checked. A collection may be an Album or a smart album or a project or a group.
A full check would then require a first check of which images are not part of an album so that the user can be alerted that not all images have been checked. But, that first check would probably send memory through the roof as well, so we'd back to square one. Sigh.
In your shoes I would create some albums at the top level of the user collections. Do not put them inside a group or project. In All Images, select images in sets of about 5000 each, and put each set in one of these albums. Then run the tool to find images with missing files. When you are done, you can delete the albums, take care not delete the images inside.
But I admire you're C1 scripting skills!
Cheers,
Peter.0
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