Some groups of images have lost connection with masters on external drive

Steve Wolfe

• July 04, 2022 14:56

I have apparently random groups of images that have lost connection to their master images on an external drive.  Instead of a thumbnail imager, some groups show "?" with "image not found, corrupted, or in wrong format" (or words to that effect).  Other groups just say the images are offline (when they aren't) but still show the thumbnails.

I can easily locate and reconnect single images, which still have the correct name and are located where they are supposed to be (they are merely stored in folders on the external drive labeled with the year they were taken).  However, there are a number of such disconnected groups containing some hundreds of images total, and I haven't been able to find a way to reconnect them en mass.  One at a time will take way long.

Any suggestions gratefully accepted.  I have to say, I find C1's file handling a frequent aggravation.  Now if they would just connect their excellent image editing to the old Aperture's file handling, they would be stellar!

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  Permanently deleted user

  • July 06, 2022 07:10

  I have the same issue whatever the version (21 or 22). I imported a bunch of images in a new session and stored them on an external drive. Everything worked fine until I closed C1 to later reopen it. Now some are available, some show the question mark with "image not found..." text, although all images are located in the same folder.

  I ran a verify process and there were some errors:

  Checking uniqueness of variant indices
  Checking image relationships
  FAILED!
  Checking image relationships done
  Database content error
  The database failed verification.
  The database failed a full verification check.

  I chose to repair the database, but I still have the same issue.

  This is really cumbersome, and reconnecting hundreds of images one by one is not an option.

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  Steve Wolfe

  • July 16, 2022 22:31

  I was really hoping someone would have some helpful suggestions as to cause and, especially, cure.  I went through the other threads without being one on this particular problem before I posted.

  An help out there?

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  Permanently deleted user

  • July 21, 2022 15:39

  I have been able to solve my issue by manually editing the database (the .cosessiondb file). This is a sqlite database, so if you are familiar with SQL, you can fix the bad entries from the ZIMAGE and ZPATHLOCATION tables.

  This is not ideal, but it's still better and quicker than reconnecting hundreds of pictures one by one. I hope Capture One team will fix that quickly.

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