Problem moving catalog and images to new hard disk
Hello,
I'm trying to move my Capture One 12.1 catalog and my photos from one hard drive to another new higher capacity hard drive. From one unit e: to c:. To do this, I move the folder that contains the catalog file, with its subfolders (Originals, Adjustments and Cache), and the folder that contains the photos (photos not inside catalog), with its subfolders (the name of the subfolders is the date of photos). When I open the catalog in the new disk drive, I see a triangle with an exclamation mark in the folders structure and images, which indicates that it does not find them https://i.ibb.co/BsSWyBZ/newloca.jpg
I choose the option to locate the new folder path (right button in root folder with the symbol and option "Locate"), I look for the new path and once done, everything is correct, the folders anda images appears...
https://i.ibb.co/G26y0vs/Catoriginal.jpg.
Then, I close Capture One.
And now the problem comes. When I open Capture One again with the catalog in the new location, the folder structure and hierarchy disappears and I have activated show this folder hierarchy. All the images are inside the catalog, but the folder structure is not shown, only the root folder and the photos that it contains, not the subfolders inside this root folder and its photos.
https://i.ibb.co/726HdXF/reopened.jpg
This happens even though the path and names where I have moved both the catalog and the images are the same, only the letter of the unit changes. To see them I have to add them one by one again, which is not acceptable when you have hundreds of subfolders.
Does anyone know what happens and how to solve it ?. Thanks!
I'm trying to move my Capture One 12.1 catalog and my photos from one hard drive to another new higher capacity hard drive. From one unit e: to c:. To do this, I move the folder that contains the catalog file, with its subfolders (Originals, Adjustments and Cache), and the folder that contains the photos (photos not inside catalog), with its subfolders (the name of the subfolders is the date of photos). When I open the catalog in the new disk drive, I see a triangle with an exclamation mark in the folders structure and images, which indicates that it does not find them https://i.ibb.co/BsSWyBZ/newloca.jpg
I choose the option to locate the new folder path (right button in root folder with the symbol and option "Locate"), I look for the new path and once done, everything is correct, the folders anda images appears...
https://i.ibb.co/G26y0vs/Catoriginal.jpg.
Then, I close Capture One.
And now the problem comes. When I open Capture One again with the catalog in the new location, the folder structure and hierarchy disappears and I have activated show this folder hierarchy. All the images are inside the catalog, but the folder structure is not shown, only the root folder and the photos that it contains, not the subfolders inside this root folder and its photos.
https://i.ibb.co/726HdXF/reopened.jpg
This happens even though the path and names where I have moved both the catalog and the images are the same, only the letter of the unit changes. To see them I have to add them one by one again, which is not acceptable when you have hundreds of subfolders.
Does anyone know what happens and how to solve it ?. Thanks!
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No idea or help ?. I would be very grateful, I have a catalog with 10,000 images and 1,200 folders, I can not locate and adding them one by one. 0 -
Sounds to me that you followed the right steps. I would go here and submit a support ticket: https://www.phaseone.com/en/SupportMain ... er-support
My images are on an internal drive that I assigned the drive letter v: too. The last time I needed to do what you did, I simply backed up my drive (mirror) to the new disk and then swapped out the drive and used the OS to reassign the drive letter of the new drive to v:. Now all my photo editing software has no idea I changed drives and everything just worked without making any changes at all.
You might be able to do something similar even if you moved your images to the c: drive (which you probably cannot assign the drive letter e:) by using the subst command which lets you assign a drive letter to a folder on, in this case, the c: drive.
But the Locate command should have done what you needed too.0 -
[quote="IanL" wrote:
Sounds to me that you followed the right steps. I would go here and submit a support ticket: https://www.phaseone.com/en/SupportMain ... er-support
My images are on an internal drive that I assigned the drive letter v: too. The last time I needed to do what you did, I simply backed up my drive (mirror) to the new disk and then swapped out the drive and used the OS to reassign the drive letter of the new drive to v:. Now all my photo editing software has no idea I changed drives and everything just worked without making any changes at all.
You might be able to do something similar even if you moved your images to the c: drive (which you probably cannot assign the drive letter e:) by using the subst command which lets you assign a drive letter to a folder on, in this case, the c: drive.
But the Locate command should have done what you needed too.
Thanks!. Locate works the first time I use it, locates the folders and files in their correct place after moving them. But when closing Capture One and returning to open it is when the entire folder hierarchy has disappeared. I have tried many times and it always happens that way.0 -
Do you mean everytime you close CaptureOne you have to re-add it again?
Have you tried to move it to another location? Perhaps back to the original location or somewhere else on the same disk just to check if it behaves the same?
Otherwise i would suggest to try and move them inside Capture One, First add both locations, then drag and drop the Pictures in the new folders.
This way they don't loose the location and they keep the edits or cloned variants and it's also moved on the disk.
I did yesterday some experiments and somehow the "Locate" on the pictures was greyed out, so i moved them via drag and drop inside Capture One. (But on the same disk)
Thought this would be the correct way, but honestly I'm a noob π
Especially since today i have the locate function and it's working, but i haven't tried it with subfolders yet, only moved the pictures.
But you can select all pictures per folder and then drag and drop them.
Hope it helps.
Btw:
just found this one:
Have a look at the last post. Because i just found errors too π0 -
[quote="NNN636914942609813786" wrote:
Do you mean everytime you close CaptureOne you have to re-add it again?
Have you tried to move it to another location? Perhaps back to the original location or somewhere else on the same disk just to check if it behaves the same?
Otherwise i would suggest to try and move them inside Capture One, First add both locations, then drag and drop the Pictures in the new folders.
This way they don't loose the location and they keep the edits or cloned variants and it's also moved on the disk.
I did yesterday some experiments and somehow the "Locate" on the pictures was greyed out, so i moved them via drag and drop inside Capture One. (But on the same disk)
Thought this would be the correct way, but honestly I'm a noob π
Especially since today i have the locate function and it's working, but i haven't tried it with subfolders yet, only moved the pictures.
But you can select all pictures per folder and then drag and drop them.
Hope it helps.
Btw:
just found this one:
Have a look at the last post. Because i just found errors too π
Thanks. I'll prove your suggestions!0 -
Hi,
I was asking exactly the same question months ago. Technical help were unable to offer any solution.
However a forum user called Phil gave me a lot of advice and from that I was able to transfer a catalog in its entirety to another HD either within or a new computer.
The method I used is as follows
To create a copy of the catalog:
On the drive I wish to place a copy I create a file with a name that clearly identifies the contents and is easily recognisable as such.
Within your current catalog:
Click on: File Γ’β¬β Export Images Γ’β¬β Export as Catalog
Give the catalog a name. I use the same name as the catalog I am exporting
Identify the location where the catalog is to be stored - I use a different HD to that on which the working catalog is stored. For safety it could be on an external memory saving device.
I also tick the box Γ’β¬ΕAlso Include Referenced Originals
Keep an up to date copy of catalog I do this by regularly deleting the copy and creating a new one.
On the new computer I download and run capture pro
Dialog box then comes up and I click on
Browse
I then navigate to the copy of the catalog I created going as far into the file as the file name ending:
cocatalogdb and click OK
This will then open up in the software in exactly the same way as it did with the original.
If just changing the HD
Open Capture Pro clicking the alt key so that the dialog box asking you what you want opens.
Click on browse and follow the above.
I suggest that if just moving from one HD to another within the same computer, the original catalog stored on the HD not being used or used for something else is either:
Removed from the computer altogether, or the Catalog file is deleted so that it does not show up when opening Capture pro after the transfer.
As soon as I open the catalog within the new HD / Computer I would export as a catalog to a new destination as a backup just in case the new HD fails.
I tried out the above 4 times over the past 2 days within a different computer (deleting both the software and catalog after each attempt so as to start from scratch each time) and the procedure worked flawlessly each time.
Hope this helps.0
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