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Importing and Exporting woes

Avery Wong
I've been using Capture One for about 6 months now and I love everything about Capture One, except the importing and exporting.

To be more specific, the lack of "Do not import suspected duplicates" option that Lightroom has. I have ran into a few situations where I would run out of disk space in the middle of an import and the import would abort. Then I would have to spend quite a bit of time trying to track down what was imported and what wasn't imported and manually import the files that were not imported. If I were to just import everything again, it would create duplicate files and duplicate entries in the collection. I also run into this issue when I shoot multiple days onto a card without wiping the card between imports (sometimes I prefer to keep images backup on the card until they are safely backed up on a secondary drive).

Does anyone know a solution for this?

I also have similar issue with exporting and keeping a clean folder. Lets say I am editing a wedding and exporting files into a folder. If I wanted to re-adjust any of the edits, there is no way to overwrite the original file in the folder, it just creates a differently named copy. This is a nightmare if you don't need the copies, having to find and track down every old copy and deleting them is a pain, especially if you are going to upload into a gallery for a client. Does anyone know of a way to sync files or another solution to this?

Thanks in Advanced,
AveryTingWong (also it's been months and my name is still some random set of numbers, what is up with that?)
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  • cdc
    I feel your pain and unfortunately do not have good answers for you. Sometimes I've found it easier to just delete files and re-import or re-export instead of sorting through everything to find and delete duplicates. Obviously not a solution to every situation.

    As for your name being a random set of numbers, go to "My Pages" on phaseone.com and then click on "edit your profile" and you should be able to change your forum name there.
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  • Class A
    [quote="NN636082693618759645UL" wrote:

    Does anyone know a solution for this?

    Have you tried the "Synchronise Folder" option?

    I always copy the images to the place where I want them to be. Then importing just amounts to making the files known to C1 (e.g., add them to a catalog without moving them). If this import process were interrupted, I'd just go to the folder in C1 and issue a "synchronisation".

    This works well; I only wish there were an option for adding new subfolders through synchronisation. In that case, I'd never had to explicitly import, I'd just always synchronise my existing folder structure.
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  • IanS
    [quote="NN636082693618759645UL" wrote:
    I've been using Capture One for about 6 months now and I love everything about Capture One, except the importing and exporting.

    To be more specific, the lack of "Do not import suspected duplicates" option that Lightroom has. I have ran into a few situations where I would run out of disk space in the middle of an import and the import would abort. Then I would have to spend quite a bit of time trying to track down what was imported and what wasn't imported and manually import the files that were not imported. If I were to just import everything again, it would create duplicate files and duplicate entries in the collection. I also run into this issue when I shoot multiple days onto a card without wiping the card between imports (sometimes I prefer to keep images backup on the card until they are safely backed up on a secondary drive).

    Does anyone know a solution for this?

    I also have similar issue with exporting and keeping a clean folder. Lets say I am editing a wedding and exporting files into a folder. If I wanted to re-adjust any of the edits, there is no way to overwrite the original file in the folder, it just creates a differently named copy. This is a nightmare if you don't need the copies, having to find and track down every old copy and deleting them is a pain, especially if you are going to upload into a gallery for a client. Does anyone know of a way to sync files or another solution to this?

    Thanks in Advanced,
    AveryTingWong (also it's been months and my name is still some random set of numbers, what is up with that?)


    The exporting issue where you cannot over right existing files is a real pain. Never touch the raw, yes, but being able to over right an exported file is necessary for productivity.

    I can do an initial processing of a shoot and export a set of files for a photobook and then let my assistant get on with creating the book. Later after I have finished final processing I can in LR, just re-export the images to the same folder and the corrected images are automatically picked up and used in teh book as they have the same file name. In C1 I have to export to a different folder and then use the OS to copy and then over right the original exported files. Doable but lots of unnecessary work compared to LR and most other software. Now I come to think of it, I am not sure I know of ANY software that does not offer an over right option.
    Ian
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  • Class A
    Agreed, an option to "overwrite" existing files during export would be extremely useful.

    Have you created a support case for this piece of functionally yet?
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  • Benjamin Liddle
    Of note, working in a session rather than a catalog requires no import/export and all folders are kept current by design. It may be better suited for your workflow. If you haven't explored this option, check out this webinar (it's for 8 but the concept remains fundamentally the same):
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