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Deleting Variants

Alan Huntley
Hello All,

I'm running the latest version of Capture One PRO (5.1.1) and I can't seem to delete a variant. My procedure: select a variant (white box around thumbnail) in the thumbnail view area, right-click, and then select Del at the bottom of the list. Nothing happens! Everything looks the same... What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,
Alan

P.S. I guess I should mention that I'm running C1 on a Core i7 processor under Windows 7 (64-bit.)
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  • Paul Steunebrink
    Have you setup a trash folder? By default each session has one, but if you accidently removed it, CO5 can't move the image to the trash folder.

    As a test, you could try to delete via the File menu, either normal delete (move to trash) or delete permanently (does not use the trash folder).
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  • Alan Huntley
    Hello Paul,

    Since my C1 setup is basically the default as installed, I do have a session Trash folder. I tried your suggestion of deleting the variant via the File menu and that does remove the thumbnail. However, it doesn't seem to move this version to the Trash folder, as the little helper popup suggests, because when I click on this folder (following the delete) it's empty! Well...I guess it's working, but I guess I better be really sure I don't need a particular variant before deleting it because it appears to be unrecoverable.

    If you have any other suggestions or things to try, I'm all ears.

    Thanks,
    Alan
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  • Coach2
    When you say "variant" do you mean the entire original raw file with it's primary variant settings, or a second settings such as with "new variant" or "clone variant"? If it's a second variant then nothing goes to the trash folder as only the .cos settings file is updated, thus nothing to restore later from trash.
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  • Alan Huntley
    Hello Coach,

    I think you answered my question...

    No, I don't mean the original RAW file or any settings applied to this origianl file. I'm talking about a new variant (second "file") of the original. What you say makes perfect sense! Since any variant (new or clone) is really just modified settings based off the original, then nothing can be restored. Not sure why I didn't think of that!! 😲 I guess the terminology used is a little confusing to me; primary variant settings, variant variant settings, etc.

    Thanks for your insight.

    Regards,
    Alan
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  • Drew Altdo
    Dead on target Coach.
    The COS file actually just repeats a simple script. This is why the COS files that contain variant's are roughly 2x the file size (a whopping 12-18kb as appose to 6-8kbs) as the original COS files with no variants.
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