New to C1 / Import existing photo structure.
Hi I'm looking to import my existing library and photo structure, however I just want to rename images on import leaving the physical images where they are on an external drive and just rename them. So basically I'm wanting to rename all of my images keeping the existing photo folder structure. When I did a sample "copy to catalog" the naming token format I created didn't didn't occur to despite setting up my naming token format on import. I don't want to copy any images creating duplicates just rename where they are with my selected "naming token format". How do I perform this Catalog import? or whats the best way to make a constant photo library structure. My current Library is old and has developed over time to what it is today and in desperate need of revamping.
Also when batch renaming RAW images I ran into an issue when I have a sub folder with jpg develops of the same image being issues a different image # than the RAW file. So when I rename RAW images in a folder I want the subfolder Developed jpgs to retain the RAW image # to look like ( 001.jpg instead of 001.RAW )
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When somebody wants to take a single step instead of two or three small steps, things can go wrong. Importing a structure while renaming photos leads to the question, how do the renamed photos find their spot in your structure? Especially when things go wrong. And they will go wrong, I had to learn: background processing sometimes stumbles over it's own feet.
And when you exported photos in a different naming scheme than is possible now, you will run into troubles. Capture One is not well thought as a DAM, some things which were super-easy to do* in Aperture are simply impossible to do in C1. Did you already watch a couple of their tutorial videos like https://youtu.be/SRh-1tUnDA4 ?
A possible way could be to make a new catalog and using your old one as template. This way you get the structures - but need to fill in the freshly imported and renamed photos manually. Y
ou also could try to use the "Rename" command, although I simply didn't enjoy the poorly programmed execution**. And I don't know it it accepts tokens. I ended up to rename pictures in a capable app before importing them, as it turnt out: During renaming with C1 the app occasionally crashed. And didn't find the photos renamed by C1 as they were renamed in their folder, but not in the crashed catalog.
* like "finding out in which albums/collections a certain photo is which I found in "all photos" or somewhere else in it's structure."
**sometimes it keeps a renaming text for the next 20 other renamings, sometimes the default text is highlighted, sometimes only parts or nothing of it. It sucks.
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