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Can I Move a Catalog to another disk safely

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New user question.
I have created a new Capture One Catalog on the same external drive as my image folders.

Can I move the Capture One Catalog onto my internal SSD or will that lose the reference links to my images?

All advice gratefully received. Thanks.
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  • Ian Wilson
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    If you move the catalog, it may not know where the image folders are...at first. but you can go to the Library tool, right click on a folder and choose the Locate... function. That will show Capture One where the folder is. Do it on the highest level folder you can and it should find the subfolders too. So if your images are at

    Pictures/Spring
    Pictures/Summer

    ... etc, do it on the Pictures folder.

    If in doubt, create a very small catalog with half a dozen images, and practice the process on that first.

    Ian
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  • Permanently deleted user
    OK thanks for that Ian. Appreciated.
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  • Permanently deleted user
    By way of an update for other users

    I copied and pasted my Catalog to my internal SSD from the external drive and it didn’t need to be told where the Original master images were. Note I only moved the catalog and not the Master image files. I also kept the old catalog in place in case of problems but none so far.

    FOOTNOTE:
    I have moved away from Adobe Lightroom and initially imported into Capture One Pro 12.1.3 to create the CO Catalog. However I failed to notice where I was creating it and placed it on the same external drive as my raw image folders. For speed i wanted to put the new CO catalogue on my fast internal Solid State Disk.

    I also tried creating a new catalog on the internal SSD and then importing the original externally located Catalog. This did work as well but added an additional collection layer in the naming.

    My catalog has 110k images and is 42gb with previews set at 1024.
    My master pc is a 5kiMac with a 1TB SSD internal drive.
    All master image files are on an external 4tb disk connected via usb3 cable.
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  • NNN637078179873158327
    I am currently looking at switching from LR to C1 and the ability to keep catalogs on network drives was the primary reason (LR can't do that).

    From my experience, paths in C1 catalogs seem to be absolute and you can move/copy catalogs around all you want without issues.
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  • Ian Wilson
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    I think that you may find a difference between keeping the catalog itself on a network drive and keeping the images it references on one. Probably the catalog will work most smoothly if it is on your internal drive, even if the images are elsewhere. Others users who have tried keeping the catalog itself elsewhere may be able to say whether it worked well for them.

    Ian
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  • NNN637078179873158327
    Well, the only reason why I am looking to switch to C1 is that I can keep the catalog on a network drive. I understand that there is a performance hit. I understand there is a risk of corruption in case I get disconnected (which doesn't happen often, and I have backups). But that are all trade-offs that I am very glad to make.

    For my network, opening a catalog is about 5x faster from my local SSD vs. the NAS device over the network. For my full catalog (25k pictures) opening over the network takes about 1 minute 15 seconds which is a bit long. But for my "current edits" catalog (Usually < 1,000 pictures) it's 10 seconds which is fine with me.

    TL;DR: For a hobbyist like me with 35k pics, keeping the catalog on NAS is just fine.
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  • Eric Valk
    @ NNN637078179873158327

    btw can you share the brand and model of your NAS?
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