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Can I relocate catalogued pictures on my hard drive?

Permanently deleted user
I started out using Capture One fairly naively. I imported pictures directly from the camera, and sometimes from other adhoc folders I used as a sort of "holding queue" before I do something with the pictures, then move them into the repository.

Now I realize I can do that sort of queue-like organization very easily in the catalog, but my current pictures are a bit of a mess on the drive. They're mostly just in separate sessions in Capture One. I can start to organize them in the catalog, but I'd like to first put them in somewhat reasonable permanent homes on my drive. And when that drive fills up, can I move them again onto an external drive? I'd rather not re-add them to the catalog, as many of the images have a lot of work done to them.
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  • Paul Steunebrink
    You can change the location of images or folders of images after you have imported them into the CO8 catalog.

    There are basically two methods:
    - you move them within CO8, from the Library tool, Folders section
    - you move them outside CO8, from Finder for example, and relocate the images from the Library tool, Folders section
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  • Permanently deleted user
    Aha. I was worrying I'd have to individually locate each moved image, but I don't. I instead moved them back to where Capture One was expecting them to be, and then I did the move again, this time from within the Folders section of Capture One's Library tab.
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  • Norman Dallura
    I am still stuck. I imported my pictures onto the wrong disk and I want to move them along with the edits to the right disk. When I select the folder in the Folder section and try to drag it to the right disk, nothing on the target disk highlights and I can't seem to drag the source folder to my preferred destination.

    Plus, not all the folders on the destination disk are showing up.

    What am I missing?
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  • Paul Steunebrink
    [quote="normd" wrote:
    I am still stuck. I imported my pictures onto the wrong disk and I want to move them along with the edits to the right disk. When I select the folder in the Folder section and try to drag it to the right disk, nothing on the target disk highlights and I can't seem to drag the source folder to my preferred destination.

    Plus, not all the folders on the destination disk are showing up.

    What am I missing?

    You can not move folders from the Library > Folders section. You can add a folder and move images to that folder.

    Maybe this also helps: http://imagealchemist.net/catalogs-in-depth-part-2/
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