Importing From SD Card Issues
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The message appears because Capture One can't work with images stored on an SD card - that's because as soon as you remove the card from the card reader, the files are no longer available to Capture One. You have two options on import from an SD card.
- Copy the files into the catalog
- Copy the files to a location on your computer (which could be an external drive if you like) and Capture One can reference those.
If you don't want the computer to fill up with raw files again you have two main options as I see it.
- get an external drive and have them stored on that and referenced from there. External drives are pretty cheap these days even for quite large capacities. If you do it this way it is still likely to give you better performance if the catalog itself is on your internal drive, even if the images are on an external drive.
- have the images on your computer, but delete them after you have done your edits. The problem with this is that you'd be left only with your output JPG files, and your raw files would be gone. (But so they would if you had edited them on the SD card, if it were possible, which it isn't.) If you decided you wanted to have another go at editing a particular image some time down the line, you couldn't.
Ian
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Hey Ian thanks so much for all of the info. You did mention some drawbacks of referencing pictures from an sd card. The thing is, I explained how if I make a copy of the original picture in the SD card and place it in another folder IN that same SD card it does let me reference that picture. So it does let me reference a picture outside of the internal storage or external drive. That tells me that referencing from the SD card isn't the problem. Why doesn't it let me reference the original file then?
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It is a good thing that it doesn't let you reference images on the SD card, because once it is removed they are gone, and if you reuse the card in your camera, they are gone forever. I think that it is surprising that it lets you reference another folder on the SD card, but I would suggest that it is not a good strategy for the same reason. Capture One is programmed to not allow you to reference images on the SD card (in their original location at least) and I don't think they should change that.
Ian
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I appreciate your point of view. I'm getting deeper into photography and learning a lot as I go. You're probably more experienced than I am and can foresee problems that I might not due to experience. I'll trust that what you're saying is for the best. Thanks a ton for replying and helping out!
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One thing you’ll find repeated time and again is to format SD cards in-camera instead of deleting image files via Finder, Explorer, etc.
When you select format through your camera’s menu, everything on the card is gone. Everything. So saving images to a different folder on that card gets you no safety. They’re just gone.
As Ian said, get a good SSD (I’ve used Samsung T7 for years and they’ve been solid) and use the Copy to Folder selection in the import window. Pick a folder on that SSS.
Now you can easily transport your image files and back them up (simply by copying the SSD). Your catalog will live on your internal and you’ll be able to see previews but will have to attach the SSD to edit anything.
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That sounds like a good plan. I am curious to know how you manage your sd card backups. Do you end up with some duplicates in your SSD since you import the pictures when you want to edit and also when you backup the whole SD card? Or do you have two separate SSS; one for entire sd card backups and one for edits?
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Why back up the SD card? If you have imported the images to your computer, and if you back up your computer, they are all backed up.
Ian
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Yes, back up your image files on yet another drive, before you delete them from (or format) your SSD card.
And don't forget to backup your catalog whenever it seems you spent sufficient time with editing which you don't want to loose.
But the originals files from your SSD card are of course much more important. Store the backup drive in another place or in the cloud. (think burglary, damage from water or fire and the like).
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I think the workflow can be fairly simple. This is mine.
- Import the RAW files from the SD card to an album or as a recent import.
- Tag the ones with a color tag that you want to discard and delete them the album if you wish.
- Delete the tagged images from the recent imports folder or drag them to the trash.
- Empty the trash. The only files remaining on your storage medium will be the keepers.
- Use referenced files on an external storage medium if you want to limit the internal data storage. If so, drag the RAW files' thumbnails to the desired folder on the external storage medium. Important: Do this from within Capture One NOT Finder, or Capture One will not know where you put them.
If you are concerned about the size of the catalog on your internal drive, you do not have to use the internal drive for the catalog. If you have a fast NVME SSD and a recent model Mac, you have almost the same speed putting all of the data (catalog and referenced images) on an external drive, or drives. If you use multiple computers to edit and display images, you can easily move the external drive to another computer as long as the other computer has Capture One on it. Whether or not you use external storage, you need to be sure to make frequent backups on separate external storage media.
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