Are Catalog links relative?

2eyesee

• December 04, 2014 20:59

I just wanted to check if Catalog links are relative.

The reason I ask is that if I move my entire folder structure to another drive or computer, will it break any links?

Specifically, if I have my Catalog stored in the following folder:

D:\Photography\Capture One Catalog
And the Catalog links to my photos stored by year in folders as follows:

D:\Photography\2012D:\Photography\2013D:\Photography\2014
Will I be ok if I move the entire D:\Photography\ folder to another drive/computer/subfolder?

Thanks.

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  BeO

  • December 04, 2014 22:41

  

  You do not even have to store the catalog and the images at the same drive, e.g. I have my catalog on the Notebook and the files on a NAS drive in my network.
  
  If you move the files on your hard drive (or the network connection is broken, in my case) the image get an question mark icon "offline". You still can work with the images (catalog functions, and some edit functions too I think) and later when Capture One can locate the images again, everything is fine (nothing lost).
  
  If you moved them, to locate the images go to the library tool > Folders, right click on the top-most folder and click locate, an explorer like window will pop up you have to pick the correct folder.
  
  Try this out by closing Cap1, rename the parent folder and restart Cap1 and do as I described above.
  
  THe only important thing is, do not move the images or subfolders beneath the parent folder, probably you can "locate" each folder and even each file separately but a lot more work to do.
  
  hope this helps
  BeO

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  2eyesee

  • December 05, 2014 09:46

  [quote="BeO" wrote:
  If you moved them, to locate the images go to the library tool > Folders, right click on the top-most folder and click locate, an explorer like window will pop up you have to pick the correct folder.
  
  Try this out by closing Cap1, rename the parent folder and restart Cap1 and do as I described above.

  
  
  Thanks. I gave it a go and yes, it is straight forward enough just the 'Locate' the parent folder if it's location/name has changed.

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