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Capture One plist contents

Jerry C
My plist is rather large for a text file (200k). If I remove it, and open my catalog, it creates a new plist with very little information. The database still operates as it did, unaffected by removing the original list. My customizations, and data are unaffected. As I navigate or click on metadata, it adds information about these items to the plist, and so it grows.

What is the purpose of the plist, given, nothing seems to change by removing it? It seems to contain redundant information already stored in the catalog. Why is information constantly added to the plist as I view items and metadata in my catalog? Dose Capture One use it to improve performance?
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  • Eric Valk
    I found it informative to grab a text editor, like TextWrangler, and surf through the CO plist file.
    I found settings for every catalog I'd ever opened, lots of histroical stuff.

    I ended up deleteing the CO plist file during a push to improve the performance of CO 10, doing that may have helped.

    At the same time, double check all your presets and preferences afterwards.
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  • Jerry C
    I did the same thing. All of that info in the plist seems redundant with the database.
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  • Benjamin Liddle
    Of note, deleting com.phaseone.captureone11.plist from Finder does not delete the plist (it is reloaded from a system cache). Instead, run the following Terminal command:
    defaults delete com.phaseone.captureone11
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  • Grant Hodgeon
    [quote="ben_US" wrote:
    Of note, deleting com.phaseone.captureone11.plist from Finder does not delete the plist (it is reloaded from a system cache). Instead, run the following Terminal command:
    defaults delete com.phaseone.captureone11


    Hi Ben, a few questions just for the official answer;

    1) What is the com.phaseone.captureone11.plist?
    2) Is it important for our catalogs or sessions?
    3) Why should we run that terminal command?
    4) If it is important and a feasible solution to any errors a user might have... Can you make it easier than a Terminal Command? A less technical direction.
    5) Can you keep an updated KB article about it so we don't have to ask people, or search forums? Something we can send a Photographer. A search for plist presents uninstall KB's.

    Thanks for you time!
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  • Jerry C
    Ben is correct. I forgot about the cache, however I could not see any change in performance with the large plist as opposed to the very short one. I still can't understand why all of that history needs to be in the plist.
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  • Jerry C
    Is it possible that the plist grows, in art, because it is the repository for previous metadata entries that autofill when you type the first few letters of a word into a metadata field? If so, deleting the plist, would delete the auto fill function. This would not change overall performance, but would delete a helpful feature.
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  • Eric Valk
    [quote="NN635680879799322049UL" wrote:
    Is it possible that the plist grows, in art, because it is the repository for previous metadata entries that autofill when you type the first few letters of a word into a metadata field? If so, deleting the plist, would delete the auto fill function. This would not change overall performance, but would delete a helpful feature.

    I wouldn't normally suggest deleting the plist. But if one is having trobule with CaptureOne, then deleting the plist may be a good step, done once.

    Things like Metadata entries will be accumulated again, as CaptureOne sets up a plist file when it starts if one isn't present already.
    I was having trouble with CaptureOne 10, and at one point I deleted all the CaptureOne files, plist file,cache files, SFA file - anything under ~/Library with "phaseone" in the name.

    CaptureOne rebuilt everything, and I think this was a contributor to improving the performance. I didn't notice any CaptureOne features that were negatively affected.

    sudo find -x ~/Library -iname "*phaseone*" copied and pasted into terminal willl find all of the "phaseone" files in the users Library.

    /Eric
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