Moving a Catalog to a new SSD
To speed up my Catalog I moved it to a new SSD but after I did Choose/Locate/ and clicked on the SSD version of the catalog I got the "Offline" warning in my moved catalog. The images were there but they are thumbnails. I guess I connected it wrong or did something else wrong. I watched the YouTube video on Catalogs but I didn't see an answer for this specific problem of moving my Catalog to a new drive. Do I need to delete a plist file or is there some other way of fixing it?
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You need to Locate the pictures, not the catalog. 0 -
Let me know if it made a difference. I moved mine to an SSD and it didn't really seem to help. I ended up moving back to a spinning disk as I was running out of space. Cannot tell a difference.
I'm using a referenced catalog BTW0 -
What would probably make a difference would be to move the RAW files to the SSD. 0 -
[quote="John Doe" wrote:
What would probably make a difference would be to move the RAW files to the SSD.
No sir, thats what I did.
See, I went down that rabbit hole a while back. I went from a Macbook to a Mac Mini, to now a Mac Pro. All to help with performance of C1. There were improvements, but not enough to justify the cost of upgrading.
I went as far to run two SSD's in a raid-0 configuration. No joy.
But this is getting way off topic. If you want to learn of my journey, PM me. I would be glad to tell ya.0 -
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To speed up my Catalog I moved it to a new SSD but after I did Choose/Locate/ and clicked on the SSD version of the catalog I got the "Offline" warning in my moved catalog. The images were there but they are thumbnails. I guess I connected it wrong or did something else wrong. I watched the YouTube video on Catalogs but I didn't see an answer for this specific problem of moving my Catalog to a new drive. Do I need to delete a plist file or is there some other way of fixing it?
I just did this a few weeks ago. I have a reference catalog. I left the original files on a large hard Drive. The catalog was moved to an SSD.
I just dragged the catalog file from the hard disk to the SSD. Then I navigated to the catalog file on the SSD and double clicked it. It worked and my files were not offline.
After I did this I still had slow performance and could hear the hard drive being accessed. I found in each of the folder of original files there was a folder called "Capture One". I trashed all of these folders. After that things sped up and the folders did not reappear.0 -
Two things you can do
1) SSD is not nirvana. Use the BlackMagic Disk Speed test (free in app store) to test actual performance . If you have older non-PCI/E based SSDs they are fast but not all that fast. A decent RAID with 4 or 5 spinning disk drives is actually faster than most SSDs. In my case, I have a Thunderbolt 2 attached OWC ThunderBay 4-drive spinning disk (operating RAID 5). And it is about TWICE as fast as my internal SATA SSD (However, I don't have the newer PCI/E SSD drives). Also, SSD has to do a lot of housekeeping, they get cranky when you don't have a lot of free space.
2) split catalog into smaller pieces. I had hit 100k images in one catalog, big problem! So I split it up into three. I wrote it up (click here ) and I'm much happier.
Right now my catalogs are on internal SSD and referenced RAW files are on the RAID and I'm fine (after I split my catalogs). I do think I may move my catalog to the RAID at some point and test it out. Most of the IO is probably being done within the catalog database, not reading raw images and I believe I can gain some more speed that way. We'll see.
My take: How fast your catalog needs to be is subjective, but faster drives for the catalog and smaller catalogs help a lot.0 -
Corsairvelo, thanks for your link ! 0 -
I use a SSD on my desktop where I keep Capture One. However all of my Catalogs, including the RAW files are on a G systems Thunderbolt drive. They spin at 7200 rpm. Plenty fast enough for me. I keep one catalog for final images and multiple additional catalogs based on subject matter. Whenever I want to move a semi finished (I always go back and fiddle with things, I export the origin file and include adjustments. This gives me the original file in the "Final Catalog", but it as image I can continue to work on. I used this same export process when I broke up my original very large catalog to the smaller ones I now use. This process has worked for me as it appears that Capture One does not have a process for moving images from one catalog to another. 0
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