Editing Images Directly From Online Storage?

Richard Allen

• February 01, 2017 15:14

I know that this has nothing to do with any 'proble' with Capture One but I'd like to know...

I'd like to have the ability to edit images that are stored on an online storage location such as Dropbox, Google Dive or Sync.com (which I use).

At the moment even if I use any of these online storage services I still have to keep the images on my hard drive (internal or external) and it's the images I store on my hard drive that is accessed and edited and then backed up to an online storage service for safe keeping.

So why can't image aditing applications such as Capture One, Photoshop, Lightroom etc. let you access 'only' the images on an online storage facility and let you (me) not have to keep the same images on your hard drive taking up room?

I hope that made sense?

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  WPNL

  • February 09, 2017 07:50

  You might want to try to map that drive with VPN or WEBDAV?

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  SFA

  • February 09, 2017 13:12

  Richard,
  
  Assuming your Cloud storage service likes to play nicely with a mapped drive the next question might be "How fast and reliable is your broadband?"
  
  And then "What are you typically doing when you edit images?"
  
  If you are simply grabbing a single original file and working on it the time taken to find it, and load it into memory (especially a one-read no write original file) may not be significant to your work time, although C1 is really designed on the assumption that users are looking for a facility to work on multiple images at the same time via cut and paste and multiple selections.
  
  I rather suspect it can all get somewhat complicated unless just using the service for file sharing across devices with a secondary benefit of off-site backup. But even hands-off synchronizing across devices seems to be fraught with the unpredicted in some situations and on some services.
  
  I feel more comfortable just increasing my local disk capacity.
  
  
  Grant

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