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Same catalog opened in a new external hard drive

Sagitario1964
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Hi,

My catalog and photos have been on a Lacie external hard drive (thunderbolt 2) so far. I have just bought a faster Kingston NVME 2 tb disc (thunderbolt 4) using an Acasis enclosure. I have copied the files from the Lacie to this Kingston to work, edit etc. from this faster disc. The problem is that when I try to open and work from the Kingston disc,  the catalog C1 opens is the Lacie.

What am I doing wrong?. What do I have to do to work from the Kingston using the original catalog and not from the Lacie?

Thanks ever so much

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  • Abbott Schindler

    Are you saying that when you launch Capture One, it automatically opens your old catalog (which I assume you did not delete after copying)? That’s because C1 remembers the last catalog you used and automatically opens to it. Have you tried just “Open Other” and then navigating to the catalog on your new drive? Once you do that, C1 will automatically open that catalog, assuming you only use that catalog.

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  • Sagitario1964

    Thanks Abbott. I see "open" and "open recent" in the file menu, but I don't see "open other"

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  • Abbott Schindler

    Sorry; my bad. It's the "Open" option. Like other Mac apps, that option lets you navigate to the document you want to open. Did you try it?

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  • Sagitario1964

    Yes Abbott, I tried even with the old disc unmounted and it keeps pointing to this old one. I have a catalog per year so, the only solution I see is create a new catalog again and start developing from scratch.

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  • Abbott Schindler

    Are you saying that when you Click "Open", you're unable to navigate to your new catalog?

    I'd expect the dialog to start at the old catalog location, perhaps even if the disk isn't mounted, but you should be able to navigate to the new one. What do you see when you try to navigate?

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  • Sagitario1964
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    If I open a catalog on the fast disk, it points to the Lacie and all the folders are with a triangle at the end. If I try to point it to the new disk, it keeps showing me the old one. 

    No worries Abbott. You've been very kind and I appreciate that help a lot. I don't want to bother you so,  I was making new catalogs in the meantime to start from the ground up on the new disk, and when I finish, I will make a back up. Developing is a fun work for me so, no worries. 

    Thanks ever so much for your attention

    Cheers

    Jose

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  • Abbott Schindler

    One other thing to try Jose: double-click on the new catalog, or drop its icon onto the C1 icon, and C1 "should" open it. If that fails, I think you've got a problem with the Mac itself and you might want to call Apple Support. Please let me know if double-clicking on the file works.

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  • Sagitario1964

    Thank you Abbott

    Regards

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  • Abbott Schindler

    Did either of these suggestions work?

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  • Sagitario1964

    The new catalogs worked !!

    Thank you, Abbott

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  • Meredith Cosgrove

    I am also encountering this issue and the solutions offered are not working. C1 is preferentially loading images from an older drive - whether double clicking or dragging to the C1 icon. I have rebuilt the libraries several times under C1 23 - and yet C1 keeps referencing the images in the old drive. I am finding this frustrating. Both drives function normally and do not exhibit any other issues working with Mac.

    Regards,

    Meredith

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  • Michael Zeldin

    The key is that if you copied or moved the image files OUTSIDE of Capture One, using the Mac finder for example, the catalog has no way to reference them. Thus you must work within Capture One Library tab to establish the new reference site.  In order to regain the connections between a catalog and the image files at the new drive, first back up both catalog and files; lets call the file with your images on your "old drive" file A.   Create a  (new folder Y )  in the new drive. You can use the + in the folder section of the library. Then, within Capture One Library tool, drag the folder A (in the old drive) with the images on to the new folder Y.  Give it a few minutes depending on the total size of all the files. This will allow Capture One to adjust the routing etc info needed by a catalog to link with the image files in the folder in the new location on the new drive. The same principle applies to image files that reside on the same drive as the catalog.

    You can practice this a a few image files to get you familiar with the process.  I call this the Ian Wilson Process since Ian taught it to me.

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