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Display content of more than one folder?

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I am working with catalogs in C1 with referenced photos organized in folders and subfolders on my local HD.
When I go to the library tool tab and select a folder which does not contain pictures but contains subfolders with pictures in them - is there any way to make C1 display the content of several or all of the sub-folders in the browser?

Or is the only way to go select a single folder (containing pictures) and view just it’s content?
I recently switched to C1 from Aperture and LR where something like this was possible.
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  • Bill Booth
    One method to gather images from different folders is to make a User Collection and make it a Smart Album. So let's say you want your best "flower" photos in one spot. You tell the Smart Album to collect all images that are both 3 star and colour-coded pink. Then go through your folders and tag the images accordingly. This only works if all the folders are in the same Catalog.
    You can also create a User Collection and simply drag an image into it. This does not make a copy of the image, just a reference. You can select a bunch of thumbnails from one folder and drop them into another collection. An image can appear in several Collections, so the same "flower" might be in your Spring Collection, Flower Collection and Nature Collection, all without changing the size of your original image folders.
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  • jimb
    [quote="NNN634551146565393432" wrote:
    One method to gather images from different folders is to make a User Collection and make it a Smart Album.
    ...
    You can also create a User Collection and simply drag an image into it. This does not make a copy of the image, just a reference.


    You can't be serious!?

    There's really no way to display all the contents of a parent folder and its subfolders??

    There's really no way to ⌘-click multiple folders and have all the thumbnails in those folders displayed??

    Lame.
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  • Permanently deleted user
    [quote="NNN634551146565393432" wrote:
    One method to gather images from different folders is...

    Thanks for your reply and suggesting this workaround!
    But as a consequence this means without tagging all pics (or assigning metadata all pics have in common) there is no solution?

    Oliver
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  • meanwhile
    Unfortunately not as yet, no. A few of us have been asking for years.
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  • Permanently deleted user
    [quote="meanwhile" wrote:
    A few of us ...


    O. k. - one more here! 😄

    Oliver
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  • NN635396322977093750UL
    And one more here as swell 😉

    It also makes it a lot easier to move folders, instead of one at a time.


    Best...Jan
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  • meanwhile
    The thing that makes it (a little) disappointing is that I'm pretty sure this is a question of philosophy rather than being hard to implement. AFAIK, the folders displayed in a C1 catalog are already database calls rather than callouts to the "physical" folders, so it could be done without much overhead anyway. Other software in this space has the feature too (Lightroom, Aperture, Aftershot Pro), so it's not like a way out there thing that no one thinks is worthwhile to implement.

    It's not a big thing, but it would be very useful.
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  • jimb
    [quote="meanwhile" wrote:

    It's not a big thing, but it would be very useful.

    Well, it is kind of a "big thing" since a feature like this is available in so many other software packages, and intuitively is what users expect.

    This is likely a leftover from CO early days where DAM is an afterthought. Time to step up to the plate guys. With the demise of Aperture and LR's misdirection you've got a great opportunity to capture a large part of the market. Where are you?
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  • harald_walker
    [quote="Olyver" wrote:
    [quote="NNN634551146565393432" wrote:
    One method to gather images from different folders is...

    Thanks for your reply and suggesting this workaround!
    But as a consequence this means without tagging all pics (or assigning metadata all pics have in common) there is no solution?
    Oliver


    Well, smart folders and keywords was one suggestion.

    Otherwise organize images of a shoot (folder?) in albums and albums can be grouped and C1 will display the images of all albums in a project. Advantage of that is also that some images can be in more than one album at the same time.

    See
    http://help.phaseone.com/en/CO8/Library ... spx#item19
    For an explanation about the options to organize the images.

    BTW, I don't see a folder view for actual file system folders in Aperture.
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  • meanwhile
    BTW, I don't see a folder view for actual file system folders in Aperture.


    My catalog in Aperture always automatically matched what was on disk, so it's pretty much the same thing. Especially given that C1's isn't a "folder view for actual file system folders" either.
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  • Neonsquare
    In comparison to C1, Aperture has another level of indirection between the physical file level and its asset organisation level. It starts to make more sense if one takes a look at the evolution of Aperture's DAM. In the beginning the "Project" was a virtual container that was both - the target of an import and on the other side the thing that you could _export_ to share it with other Aperture users who could import it into their own Libraries to work on it. Every photo needs to be part of exactly one Project and to delete a photo from a library is just to delete it from its project. Physically the photos of a single project could bei either stored within the library-bundle or just somewhere on some disk folder - even mixed and distributed over many disks. Aperture offered means to "consolidate" the physical locations of selected photos e.g. into the catalogue or to some folder including pathname templates.

    With Version 3 Aperture allowed not only to export/import Projects, but any subset of a library as _another_ library. This made the _library_ as a much better mean to share parts of your work with others. The original purpose to use projects to share libraries was unimportant from then on. The additional level of indirection still allowed to organize photos as part of a library (or not) without thinking about their actual physical storage place.

    In C1 this level of indirection is missing. Instead you manage physical folders within the application itself. I don't think that this is much of a problem though and I think it actually works quite well how it is.

    [neon]
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  • meanwhile
    In C1 this level of indirection is missing. Instead you manage physical folders within the application itself. I don't think that this is much of a problem though and I think it actually works quite well how it is.


    That it does! I can't fault C1 on any level for it's file handling or cataloging. Works beautifully for my workflow.

    It's only the browser display options I have an issue with.
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