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Catalog or Sessions

Greg14
Just purchased CO 8, I have Aperture.
I am seeing up to start CO 8 for January 1 pictures forward.
I want to set up 6 separate folders for various types of pictures.

2 Questions:
Do I use Catalog or sessions?

What is the easiest and safest way to accomplish this, I would want the PP copy to be the primary go to file.

Thanks

Greg
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  • Paul Steunebrink
    When you come from Aperture a move to the catalog of CO8 seems to me the most logical step.

    I suggest you dig into it, try it out with some images you already stored in your Aperture library, to get familiar with CO8, its editing and processing. Do not forget to look at some video tutorials too.
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  • Dangerous Lee
    When I moved from Aperture to CO, I chose to use sessions. I created multiple sessions to hold various photo shoots. A session for Food Photos, another for Travel etc.. When I get back from a shoot, I load the correct session and import the files into a subfolder of the captures folder. I have been very happy with this setup.
    I chose to do it this way because I don't need the functionality of a catalog. I just needed something to easily organize my files and process the RAWs.
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  • Marko Rosic
    The question I have about catalogs is stability... according to this rather old article one should avoid them, I haven't found some more recent one saying this has changed for the better.
    https://captureintegration.com/transiti ... -sessions/

    One really bad experience happened to me with catalog that really messed my couple month worth of work is when OSX left the folder in /Volumes after I've umounted my external drive and created a new one when I mounted it back. CO1 repeatedly warned me that it cannot find the images which confused me as the disk and image were there. Anyhow... don't quite remember what I exactly did but in the process all the images settings went missing because the CO1 somehow lost the link or reference to the raw files and couldn't be linked back. If I noticed that there was a second folder and deleted it all would be ok though.

    Any good or bad experiences with large collections?
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  • Greg14
    [quote="NNN635396667004693641" wrote:
    When I moved from Aperture to CO, I chose to use sessions. I created multiple sessions to hold various photo shoots. A session for Food Photos, another for Travel etc.. When I get back from a shoot, I load the correct session and import the files into a subfolder of the captures folder. I have been very happy with this setup.
    I chose to do it this way because I don't need the functionality of a catalog. I just needed something to easily organize my files and process the RAWs.


    I am thinking that I do not migrate Aperture into CO8.
    That is why I listed January 1, 2015 as a start date.

    What I currently have I will put in iPhoto as a permanent images.
    Apple will do something with iPhoto, just not at the level of CO8, therefore I feel confident to store the files there.
    My thinking is why clutter up the CO8 with old images that I have already worked on.

    For the record, I am 71 years old, retired, had my own Dark room before most on this Forum were born.
    I just want to have fun and want the easiest access and image availability possible.
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  • paintbox
    From my personal experience, I would use Sessions.
    It gives the benefits of C1's great RAW manipulation while maintaining your current organization.
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