Cross platform referenced catalogue on external SSD issues
Hello,
Here is what I am trying to do, but does not work:
I have a CO1 referenced catalogue on a Samsung T5 external SSD.
The catalogue is referenced to keep my image collection accessible for Lightroom. The image collection is also on the T5 SSD.
Reason for this is, that I continuously switch between a MacBook pro and a PC, and want to avoid continuous exporting and importing of the catalogue plus originals from Mac to PC and vica versa.
The problem is of course with the path to the originals. Each time I move from PC to Mac and the other way round, I have to relink the original image folder(s).
This is very easy in Lightroom, i.e. very fast and reliable and goes both ways.
Capture one only works one way: switching from Mac to PC, I can use the "find" function to relink the missing original (raw) image folder. However, the other way around is a total mess. When I switch from PC to Mac, the unlinked drive that contains the folder is not labeled as "Samsung T5 1TB", but as "HD1". The folder hierarchy then goes: "HD1 > RAW images > 2018 > 08 > folder name", and when I rightclick the unlinked image folder and use the find function, it will in fact change the path to: "Samsung T5 1TB > RAW images > 2018 > 08 > folder name", but the folder will be empty, no images linked at all. Synchronizing only offers the option to add the images to the catalogue, but these are of course already in the catalogue, and adding them again will loose all edits. Going back to the PC, the original path on Windows will still be there with images, online, and the path that it was changed into by the find function on the Mac is also there, but offline.
Clearly something is going wrong when opening a catalogue with a Windows created path to an external disk, on a Mac computer, and relinking does not work ar all.
Any suggestions? I searched this forum and found a post from 4 years ago describing this exact issue, with Paul Steunenbrink and Drew chiming in to confirm this behavior. Should I assume that it was not fixed at all??
Any suggestions for a workaround? I am limited to Lightroom for now due to this issue.
Chris
Here is what I am trying to do, but does not work:
I have a CO1 referenced catalogue on a Samsung T5 external SSD.
The catalogue is referenced to keep my image collection accessible for Lightroom. The image collection is also on the T5 SSD.
Reason for this is, that I continuously switch between a MacBook pro and a PC, and want to avoid continuous exporting and importing of the catalogue plus originals from Mac to PC and vica versa.
The problem is of course with the path to the originals. Each time I move from PC to Mac and the other way round, I have to relink the original image folder(s).
This is very easy in Lightroom, i.e. very fast and reliable and goes both ways.
Capture one only works one way: switching from Mac to PC, I can use the "find" function to relink the missing original (raw) image folder. However, the other way around is a total mess. When I switch from PC to Mac, the unlinked drive that contains the folder is not labeled as "Samsung T5 1TB", but as "HD1". The folder hierarchy then goes: "HD1 > RAW images > 2018 > 08 > folder name", and when I rightclick the unlinked image folder and use the find function, it will in fact change the path to: "Samsung T5 1TB > RAW images > 2018 > 08 > folder name", but the folder will be empty, no images linked at all. Synchronizing only offers the option to add the images to the catalogue, but these are of course already in the catalogue, and adding them again will loose all edits. Going back to the PC, the original path on Windows will still be there with images, online, and the path that it was changed into by the find function on the Mac is also there, but offline.
Clearly something is going wrong when opening a catalogue with a Windows created path to an external disk, on a Mac computer, and relinking does not work ar all.
Any suggestions? I searched this forum and found a post from 4 years ago describing this exact issue, with Paul Steunenbrink and Drew chiming in to confirm this behavior. Should I assume that it was not fixed at all??
Any suggestions for a workaround? I am limited to Lightroom for now due to this issue.
Chris
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I know windows and osx have very different HD handling... (same problem for me in different app)
Have you tried to assign your external HD a 'fixed drive letter' in windows? I encountered that windows assigns drive letters depending on your current state of your machine e.g. if you have more than one usb device connected it will change the drive letter pending the sequence of connecting the devices... just a thought!0 -
[quote="C-F" wrote:
I know windows and osx have very different HD handling... (same problem for me in different app)
Have you tried to assign your external HD a 'fixed drive letter' in windows? I encountered that windows assigns drive letters depending on your current state of your machine e.g. if you have more than one usb device connected it will change the drive letter pending the sequence of connecting the devices... just a thought!
Windows changing the drive letter is an easy fix: just update the folder path with the "find" function.
It's the migration from a Windows modified catalogue to MAC OS where the "find" function fails. But as said: it already starts with the wrong interpretation of the Windows modified path to the Samsung external SSD: when opening the catalogue on MAC OS, the folder is marked "offline" or missing, but has the path starting with "HD1", which is the MAC boot drive. So it makes sense that the "find" function then fails, because instead of modifying the right path to the Samsung SSD to accord with MAC, it is replacing a faulty path starting with HD1. No wonder that does not work, and the linked images folder after the find localization, returns an empty folder. While all the images are actually there!
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