C1 catalog imported; how to get images?
On vacation, I created a C1 catalog on my laptop, filled it with lots of referenced images, adjustments, and user collections.
Now I'm home and want to merge the laptop images and catalog info into the desktop's (by which I mean a larger computer's) existing catalog. Here's what I did:
- Copied catalog file and directory containing images (in subdirs) from laptop to desktop.
- In desktop C1, File -> Import Catalog -> Capture One Catalog.
The catalog imported successfully and I can see the user projects, albums, etc. But they have no images.
In the C1 library tool (icon looks like a folder) the tree of folders (Macintosh HD / Users / bill etc.) does not show the directory containing the images. It does show directories containing previously imported images. But that directory is present on the disk (shown in the Finder).
How do I make C1 recognize the base images and associate them with their edits, albums, etc.?
Bill
Now I'm home and want to merge the laptop images and catalog info into the desktop's (by which I mean a larger computer's) existing catalog. Here's what I did:
- Copied catalog file and directory containing images (in subdirs) from laptop to desktop.
- In desktop C1, File -> Import Catalog -> Capture One Catalog.
The catalog imported successfully and I can see the user projects, albums, etc. But they have no images.
In the C1 library tool (icon looks like a folder) the tree of folders (Macintosh HD / Users / bill etc.) does not show the directory containing the images. It does show directories containing previously imported images. But that directory is present on the disk (shown in the Finder).
How do I make C1 recognize the base images and associate them with their edits, albums, etc.?
Bill
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It's easily done, but with a different part of the Library tool. You need the "Catalog Collections" or "User Collections" part of the tool.
Navigate to some of the images in the "All Images" under Catalog Collections near the top of the Library Tool. Select one image or several images from the same OSX folder.
Right click on the selected images, this will bring up a menu - select "Locate" on this menu - this brings up a "Finder" like menu that will let you navigate to the OSX folder where the images are now located. Select the image file corresponding to the selected catalog image.
It's been a while since I used this (and I can't check because my images are all located), but It seems to me that once you match one image file in an OSX folder, then C1 matches all the image filess from that folder. But you do have to visit each folder once.0 -
Thanks for the suggestion, but it doesn't work for me.
When I click on All Images, I see only the old images ... those that I'd explicitly imported before vacation. There are no vacation photos. Shouldn't my import of the vacation catalog have brought in previews? It brought in collections, but they are empty, and the Info pane says 0 KB for all of them.
Further, when I look at the main catalog in the Finder, it's shown as 360MB. The vacation catalog is 6GB. So clearly, the main catalog has not been fully updated.
Maybe it's time to restart the app and/or the computer.
Bill0 -
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Thanks for the suggestion, but it doesn't work for me.
When I click on All Images, I see only the old images ... those that I'd explicitly imported before vacation. There are no vacation photos. Shouldn't my import of the vacation catalog have brought in previews? It brought in collections, but they are empty, and the Info pane says 0 KB for all of them.
Further, when I look at the main catalog in the Finder, it's shown as 360MB. The vacation catalog is 6GB. So clearly, the main catalog has not been fully updated.
Maybe it's time to restart the app and/or the computer.
Bill
It sounds to me like your import was not completed, and images are missing.
I have experienced this before; while importing larger catalogs, I would see that C1 entered a period of being nonrepsonsive, which would last an hour or more. After some misadventures, I learned that if I stopped C1 before it exited the nonresponsive phase and gave me a message "Import complete" the import was likely to miss images. The folders and collections might be there, but some images would be missing. I also discovered that there is also a size limit, I found that imports of over about 10000 images would not complete.
Since then I have been careful not to interrupt C1s import, and to count the images before and after import, and ensure they are all there. However, since I stopped interrupting it and limiting the import size to around 4000 images I have had no more missing images.
It would be helpful to know how many images are in the catalog you want to import, and some details of your desktop - model and installed RAM perhaps?
(My desktop is a late 2009 27" iMac with quad core 2.66GHz i5, 16GB ram, 1 TB magnetic HD, iMac11,1)0 -
This just happened to me and I found...
If the links to the referenced image files in the catalog are broken, such as moving the files or changing the disk name, Catalog Import will not be able to locate the image files and only the Collection information is imported. Open the original Capture One catalog and make sure you don't have a triangular offline warning in the Folders area. If you do, right click and select locate and navigate to the files.0
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