Sessions: Show images from sub folders (session folders, smart albums, session favorites)
Please add the possibilty to show and use images from sub folders for Session Folders, Smart albums and Session Favorites, you do not nessesarily need to implement to show the folder structure.
I would like to have the option that C1 would use images from sub folders
- to show all images of the sub folders in the browser when selecting a a session folder, a session favorite, or a folder in the lib tool which has one or several levels of subfolders with images
- to use the images in the collection "All images" as well as in other smart albums
Especially for bigger sessions it can be very useful to give your images a hierachical structure on the file system with sub folders.
It is also very useful if you want to create a master session which spans over many other sessions. (Instead of a master catalog with its shortcomings e.g. redundant settings and masks storage).
I don't need groups, projects and other catalog stuff in sessions, I think the sessions should remain relatively simple and remain file system centric as it is now, but (images from) sub folders actualy belong to the file system organisation.
Thanks
BeO
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I wonder why my post cannot be seen anymore under Community>Recent activities, but a different feature request from somebody else with an even older activity can be seen. One difference it that the other post has comments.
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+1 for me. When they said showing subfolders was added I was so happy, but then really disappointed when it is apparently ONLY for catalogs and not sessions.
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Thanks for voting.
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Is this the official request? It's a plus one from me.
I am also bemused. I just watched a Capture One film in which David talks about showing sub folders in C1.
https://youtu.be/JeQSob64qlQ?t=1495
This does work even if it's not really how I want it to work.0 -
Yes. Thanks.
Yes, David shows how to add a folder as a Favorite, then the images in this folder will be shown under Allimages too, and in any smart album or filter search. Imagine you have 10 subfolders underneath this added folder, I woiuld like to have the option that these would be part of smart album or filter search on All images collection too.
Same for sub folders under the session folder e.g. Capture.
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I agree it's painful. I just did my holiday snaps. It was only 4 folders but that was annoying enough. I do some photo journalism and its not uknown for me to split a couple of weeks of work in date sub folders.
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If you split an import of images into sub-folders in a session you should be able to get C1 to do the work to create the required "Favourites".
However, if you have already split the images across different folders before importing to it's your decision whether or not to make the hosting folder a "permanent" Favourites folder or simply to open it, edit what you want to edit and then close it without making it a "permanent" link for the session.
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If you split an import of images into sub-folders in a session you should be able to get C1 to do the work to create the required "Favourites"
Ok, how would I do that?
It would still be more elegant if it just listed and was aware sub folders created during the import process.0 -
Use the Tokens available on import would be one way. The most obvious way when considering a split by dates.
Or one can specify the name of a folder to create and this will then be automatically included as a Session Favourite.
Bear in mind that a session can also be used (as many people do) without any form of import operation.
If the host file system for a session includes not only the images the user wants but also sub-folders with, say, output files generated from other sources in other folders, automatically drilling down might well produce a lot of extra C1 activity preparing valid image file types for editing when no editing of those images is planned.
This is not a problem for a catalogue because the contents are controlled (along with the preparation activity) by the import process. Importing is not a required part of a session process so the chances of unplanned and unwanted additions to a session together with the creation of Settings files, Thumbnails and Previews are greater and most likely not very welcome.
Thus it probably makes more sense, given the differentiation, to use a catalogue rather than a session if automated subfolder access is desirable for ones preferred workflow needs.
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Use the Tokens available on import would be one way. The most obvious way when considering a split by dates.
This is what I do. It doesn't add the sub folders by default. So I would then need to create something in the import to add the sub folders? I've not seen that option but I'll take another look to see if I have missed.
Again, doing this is inelegant compared with just showing the contents of the folders with sub folders.
I use photomechanic when I am out in the field. It's true that I can just dump the contents into the relevant folder but it's not a really great way of working. Not if you're working with lots and lots of images taken over a number of days. Or even topics.
This thread is about improving one thing in Sessions so saying "just use catalogues" isn't helping. I've found catalogues to be quite cumbersome in my workflow.0 -
Hey, PhaseOne, when will you finally FIX THIS FLAW? It is a flaw for sure - you just don't provide us with such a basic feature I can't name it differently.
We've been waiting for "show images in subfolders" for 10, TEN freaking years, and when you finally bring it - it's not in sessions which most of us use. Seriously?
(And I don't even talk about you could automatically show first image in a folder when we select it in a list, saving us a hundred clicks a day. Or an ability to delete a folder from within C1 (!). That's too much to ask, I understand)0 -
> Intenditore: Hey, PhaseOne, when will you...
PhaseOne left the software building 2+ years ago.
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> PhaseOne left the software building 2+ years ago
You've hurt my very heart - we have no hope ;\
I've struggled so long with all those omissions they left in C1, I can no more. I've been trying to jump from LR to C1 for freaking 7 years and can't yet, as they ALWAYS leave something broken, always leave us without some very basic things. I just can't get why they do so. I could pay them out a few good thousands bucks through those years, but I didn't, as experience in everything except editing was simply TOO BAD even for 30 days trial.Can't get it. Period.
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