Help help! Lost a Preview!

littlemike

• October 12, 2006 16:42

Aw fudge. Last weekend I sent a series of test prints to several photofinishers. The image files were created in CO from one RAW .CRW file. I output the file with several proof profiles and the plan was to compare the prints with what I see on my profiled monitor, to get a good idea about how close a matching I can expect, and what changes to profiles do.

I took care to not change any settings in CO for this RAW file after I created the proof files so that I could bring it back up the way I had it set when I created the image files.

So Mr. Mailman is now delivering the prints, and I have discovered that CO is no longer displaying the image with the settings I had. It's not CO's fault, I bet, because I had a few technical glitches between then and now, and might have clobbered CO while it was running.

I'm guesing that CO is no longer associating a C1W preview file with the image.

So my question: is there some way to find the .C1W file that was associated with this image, then "tell" CO to use it?

-- mike elliott

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  littlemike

  • October 16, 2006 21:50

  Anyone?
  
  -- mike elliott

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  • October 16, 2006 23:43

  AFAIA the association between RAW and work files is automatic with no manual intervention possible... it used to be based on a published "formula" (), but this appears to have changed. C1 will however still read old style work files ().
  
  If you want to know the name of the work file associated with a give RAW file, open the Meta Data window (Ctrl-I) and look at the bottom of the File section. The converse (find which RAW file is associated with a given work file) is a bit harder since Phaseone have not published their new "formula". However each c1w file does contain the name of the RAW file, so you can view / search this (does help if you have a fully unique filenaming convention).
  
  Two possible explanations for your problem are:
  

  • Your work files have been deleted, corrupted, or were never saved - pretty much end of story.
  
  
  • Your work files are fine, but C1 can't see them - make sure C1's Preview folder contains your existing work files (see Preview Cache tab of C1's preferences, and if necessary search your hard disk for "*.c1w" files).

  
  
  Addendum: close C1 before manually copying files into the preview folder to ensure nothing is locked or over-written by C1.

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  littlemike

  • October 17, 2006 01:03

  Thank you, Dominic. That helps a lot. I found two copies of the work file, one in the Previews folder, dated today, too new to be the one with my settings. The other copy is several weeks old, and is in a backup folder I created when updating CO. And (sometimes fate smiles upon us) it has the settings!
  
  -- mike elliott

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  • October 17, 2006 01:45

  Cool... glad to hear aeons old fluctuations in the CMB have so conspired to make your day 😉

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