overwrite and subfolders

Stefan Segers

• January 13, 2018 10:19

Hi guys,

I have a question and a suggestion.

1. When I am in sessions and I browse through my folders, I love to see an option that can let you show all images in the subfolders too. I have organized my images into multiple folders but love to view them into one viewer.
I am not working with Catalogs so within sessions when browsing folders

2. One really big thing is that when I am designing an album in a photo album program I usually see that some images need some edits to match the spread. So next thing is to go to C1 and edit the file and export it again. What I highly recommend is to have an option to Overwrite/Cancel/Rename. Just like every Operating System, LR etc. When I do the export now It always renames and this is really time consuming to delete the old file and export so the filename remains the same for the photo album software. For 1 or 2 images it is no problem of course, but doing like 500 images a day... can save a lot of time here.

Love to hear your thoughts

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  Paul Steunebrink

  • January 13, 2018 16:24

  Hi,
  
  1) The best way to achieve this is to use Smart Albums. These Albums search through all session folders. You can make a parent folder and its subfolders each a Session Favorite. On Mac this can be done quickly by dragging a folder from Finder onto the Favorites section.
  
  2) This is also only possible through a workaround. Overwriting is not in the nature of Capture One, although I understand the requirement. Workaround: in the process recipe I add a subfolder (File tab, Sub Folder field) for the repeated processing and move the images to its parent folder, overwriting the older version.

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  Stefan Segers

  • January 13, 2018 18:10

  Hi Paul,
  
  Thanks for you suggestions 😊
  
  1. I am not using the folders within the session but random folders on the harddrive. It's like using Adobe Bridge. I haven't found a way yet ☹️
  
  2. yeah that's what I am using right now... it's really time consuming

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  SFA

  • January 13, 2018 20:05

  [quote="NNN635460641645477971" wrote:
  Hi Paul,
  
  Thanks for you suggestions 😊
  
  1. I am not using the folders within the session but random folders on the harddrive. It's like using Adobe Bridge. I haven't found a way yet ☹️
  
  2. yeah that's what I am using right now... it's really time consuming

  
  
  1. As long as the folders are set up as favourites for the session the smart albums approach should still work. AFAIK.]
  
  2. Perhaps there is a way to use this approach (I do something similar to Paul's suggestion when needed) that reduces the time required. Looking at the workflow options may help.
  
  My personal preference is to not have the possibility of an accidental overwrite ... especially when using multiple varints.
  
  But my re-process occurrence numbers are typically quite low. (Partly because is I see something I am not happy with I may have the to fix in multiple images and so I will just reprocess the entire set!)
  
  
  Grant

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