Problem with sessions..lost all my progress.
Hello,
I was wondering if someone can help me with this.
I usually save all my sessions on a NAS drive. I imported the images and started to make changes to a lot of images. I close the program a few times and continue working on the images no problem.
Yesterday, I had to format my hard drive and I install again the capture one. I install same version that I was using before. I open the folder of the session on the NAS drive that I was working on before the format and double click on the cosessionsdb to open the session I was working. Capture one open the session but the previously imported picture thumbnails and everything that was there before was gone. All the progress completely gone. This has happened to me a few times already and is frustrating. I don't know why the data base is loosing all previous progress.
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Do you mean that your NAS has deleted all of the files?
That would be unusual for a NAS drive.
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No. The files are still on the newtwork drive how ever when I double click on the cosessionsdb to open the session is like if the seccion was created completely new. No imported pictures but the raw files are still on the Capture folder in the NAS drive. All the progress done before is completely gone. All the thumb nails gone. It just say on the side "No imported pictures". If I re-import and look for the previous picture that i was working on everything is like starting again. All the retouches are gone, layers everything.
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To confirm - are you using a Session or a Catalog? (Seems like a session but best to confirm that the original activity was also a session.).
Where is the cosessionsdb file located? Local drive or NAS?
Does it have the same name as your original session?
If the cosesssion file was on the internal system drive that you have replaced an newly created session file that a "new" installation of C1 would create will not know about the NAS drive work and files. You would need to tell it where to look for files.
In the folder with the RAW files you should see a "Capture One" folder if you are using a session. In that folder should be 2 more folders for Settings and Cache. These will contain your edits (Settings) and Previews/Thumbnails (Cache).
You can connect these to a new session if required.
It would be unusual, using sessions, to separate the cosessiondb file from the "Original" images and their edits/cache.
So I would expect that the cosession file you need would also be on the NAS and would need to be found there since you will have nothing in the "Recent" list.
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I'm working in sessions I save all my sessions like this on my NAS drive:
W:\Photos\YEAR 2020 (then create a session in this folder in capture one that generate this for example):
W:\Photos\YEAR 2020\Maternity
inside it creates the following folders and files:
capture
output
Selects
Trash
Maternity.cossessiondb
If I cant find the resent session in the Recent section in capture one..I usually go to the file explorer and double click on Maternity.cossessiondb to open the session.
When I double click with the mouse on the Maternity.cossiondb it opened but with no imported images in the session. But since I re-import all the files that you shown in here were all updated to the latest import:
"In the folder with the RAW files you should see a "Capture One" folder if you are using a session. In that folder should be 2 more folders for Settings and Cache. These will contain your edits (Settings) and Previews/Thumbnails (Cache)."
Am I doing something wrong? Why if I double click the database file it lost everything if everything was working before?
You said "You can connect these to a new session if required." To me it looks like at some point the session data base lose a link to the file edits.....how I connect those previous edits to the session?
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Is the NAS "device name" (or whatever link was used) the same after the system rebuild as it was before?
Did you import the files to the "Capture" folder in the default Session file structure or are they somewhere else?
The session database will have links to the folders where the files were originally IF the import process correctly added them as "Albums" you should still see them listed in "Session Albums" . If yo uadded the folder to the session by some other methods you can make them "Session Favourites". Do you see some "favourite" folders in the library tool?
If you do see albums or favourite folders but they do not show any files when you try to open them then a link has become obsolete.
Open the System Folders section of the Library tool, navigate to where you know one of the image folders is located and select the folder. Do not click to open it.
The images should appear in the browser complete with edits. You can make the folder a "Favourite" to make the link permanent so that the images will always appear in that session.
If you originally imported to the "Capture Folder" or a subfolder of Capture the the RAW files will be in the Session folder structure and assumed to be favourites automatically.
If you have re-imported the images to the original session at its original location. you may now have 2 copies of the images in the folder. One that the new session cosession file recognises and one that it does not. I'm guessing about that - but there could be some confusion in the future and I think you would be well advised to try to identify where the 'missing' set of files are in terms of the NAS storage.
I would also ask you about backup processes - but I think that might make this conversation too complex.
In reality at the screen and with the system working this is quite an easy things to resolve. Using words it becomes a much longer and more challenging task!
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Thanks for helping me. I'm at work and I dont have capture one here. I will see if I can find those places in capture one when I get home.
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Ok....I believe I solved the problem. Looks like sometimes when Capture one opens the cosessiondb it is selecting other subfolders in the "Library" section and make it look like the images were gone and I had to re-import. Once I select the "Capture Folder" section under "Session Folders" all the images appeared with all the previous changes.
Thanks SFA now what you said makes sense.
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I'm glad you found the solution.
Sessions are usually very reliable and simple but, as I found when I first started to use them properly a long time ago, there can be unexpected things seem to happen from time to time depending on how one is working with them. When files seem to go missing it is always good to go back to the basic concept to check whether an accidental or unremembered "click" just before closing a session has changed how it opens next time. Or maybe a system level "tidy up" action has moved folders in some way.
There is also the difference between importing files into the session's folder structure and making folders outside the session into Favourites that needs careful understanding to avoid self-confusion!
Once understood, which is simpler than it might sound reading this, it should all be quite easy to work effectively and flexibly. And more important, reliably.
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