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Album contents has gone missing--how can i rebuild it?

robert141
so i finally used the albums feature on 4.8.2 and made a folder with 38 images and about 55 variants before leaving it for a while. and now a couple months later, i go back to the album and all the images are gone--all i see are the numbers and variants with question marks. i don't think i moved or renamed anything that would cause this but i'm so annoyed with the software that it won't let me rebuild it. i tried dragging some of the missing images and it just adds them as an extra image.

where are the data files stored? or how can i manually rebuild the folder?
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  • Paul Steunebrink
    Albums are a session feature. An album consists of pointers to the original images. Moving or removing the original images breaks the album. Also, the session file (Capture One.col45=default session file) could have become corrupt, breaking the Album as well.
    If you use CO4 (not Pro) there is only one session, the default session, in the Capture One Library folder in your Pictures folder. With CO4 Pro/DB you can create your own session, each with its own session file. If you have a backup of your session file, you could restore it.
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  • robert141
    thanks, another flaw with the C1 instructions (wow, that info pdf is almost useless) in that it doesn't say that there is only one album available to nonPro users.

    so does that mean that if i make an album and then go to another album folder, i lose the first album link?
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  • robert141
    ok, i know that's not the case as i have more than one folder in there that's still good. also, my sessions folder in the default folder in pictures has nothing in it and says the last time it was used was a year ago.

    i think i might have a backup but i can't find where it is or should be or might be. why can't i control click on images or folders in C1 and get the link?

    i'm so confused as to why anyone would ever want to use albums if the link is so hard to maintain or rebuild. what good are they?
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  • Paul Steunebrink
    Maybe I can take away one confusion: a session can hold more than one album.
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  • robert141
    ahhhh, ok, figured it out. i was thinking the albums folder held all the adjustments--i didn't realize the adjustments stay with the images. so i just dragged in the images which were missing and then delete the question marked images.

    sorry, i should have tried that to begin with but thought i wouldn't get back my adjustments.

    thanks for bearing with me ....
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  • robert141
    oooops, spoke too soon!

    how do i delete the dead files with the question marks? it won't let me move them or delete them.
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  • Paul Steunebrink
    [quote="robert141" wrote:
    oooops, spoke too soon!

    how do i delete the dead files with the question marks? it won't let me move them or delete them.

    Can't reproduce that problem (deleting images in Album after having deleted the actual image). What did you do to delete the question marks from the Album?
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