Importing a Capture one catalog with folder structure

Roshan Malik

• November 11, 2020 02:43

Hi

Thanks in advance for your help. I have a MacBook that I process my images on first and have a few months of photos that I work on at a time. They are stored in a month by month folder on my MacBook. I am looking to export all the folders under 2020 like Jan,Feb, Mar, Apr ..and each subfolder under each month as one catalog and then reimport them into my desktop which is my final destination. When I export and import the images they show up under the "In catalog" folder and I do not see any folder structure there- all the images are no longer organized. How can I export and import like I would in LR - by maintaining the folder structure when importing ? 

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  Permanently deleted user

  • November 11, 2020 11:24

  Hi,

  There are two ways of creating a catalogue. You can store your images together with the catalogue ("In catalog"). This is called "managed catalogue". But you can also leave your images where they are (for instance, on an external HDD or SSD), and the catalogue contains then only the previews and the adjustments. This one is called "referenced catalogue". In this last case, if you go to "Folders" in the library, you would be able to retrieve your structure.

  When you import images, be careful not to select "In catalog" in the "Import to..." field, but choose the requested folder or disk or whatever, or "current location", which will leave the images where they are.

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  Roshan Malik

  • November 17, 2020 02:16

  At the moment I have all the pictures on a laptop that are stored in a folder structure and processed. What would be the best way to export from laptop and import them to my desktop while maintaining the folder structure and without losing my edits ?

   

  There are close to 3k pictures and about 20  folders in total.

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  Permanently deleted user

  • November 17, 2020 10:25

  Using a laptop as mass storage device for pictures to be processed using a desktop doesn't seem to me the best way to proceed ;-).

  I think you should store (by copying) all your images (with your folder structure) on an external hard disk (HDD or, better, SSD) and the catalogue on your desktop. The catalogue contains your edits. Its default location is in the "pictures" folder of your computer. It is far better to have the application and the catalogue on your Mac HD drive. This is what is called "referenced catalogue".

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