Capture One has lost track of thousands of photos
A large number of my catalogs and Sessions display the message "The Selected Image is either unavailable, in an unsupported format or corrupted".
I can usually click on the image frame and use locate file to locate the file. However this has it's own issues.
1. The file name will sometimes have 15 or 20 files with various extensions an often even more than one RAF. How do I know which RAF to select.
2. Even when this works, it doesn't seem to be intelligent enough to assume that ther photoes in the same session or catalog would likely be in the same folder so I have to do this one by one. This is ridiculously slow if you are looking at a catalog with hundreds or even thousands of files.
Is there a way to do this more efficiently?
Shame on the Capture One developers who have created a DAM that can so easily lose assets. I love Capture one for image processing but as a DAM it is horrendous!
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1. I have a few old images which I gave a name having iso and f-number in its name and once in a while I notice that they are missing in the catalog lib tool, including their folder. I could add them back (locate) but they didn't stay for good. This happened throughout various versions throughout the years and as I haven't identified the exact reason I since stay away from complex file or folder names. This seems to help C1 not to be confused.
2. Every other mean I tried (other than locate file) was not successful, if I remember right, I remember having duplicates in the catalog if using "sync" for example, so I ended up removing duplicates and locate file again.
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I've had a similar issue after the path to an external harddrive no longer corresponded to the path stored in my Capture One catalogue (not sure why or how this happened). I solved it by editing the catalogue using an SQLite editor (DB Browser for SQLite), though it still took quite a while. See this thread.
One thing that would have been useful was an option in Capture One to see the file paths stored in the catalogue.
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It would be helpful if Capture One would at least show where it thinks the file is supposed to be rather than just saying it's missing, can't be found or corrupted. Losing tack of files is not a minor issue. This should be a high priority issue for there developers to address in a robust manner. Now I find myself investigating whether something like Photo Mechanic Pro might be a viable solution if it plays nicely with Capture One. If the Capture One developers don't have the skill set to develop a robust DAM in house, it would be nice to see them partner up with someone else who can.
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Here's a request for an option to see stored file paths for missing images.
As it is, the only way to see stored file paths is by using an SQLite editor.
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