Does anyone know how to move edits from an Inside Catalog (by mistake) unto a Current Location ?
I am still in the process of learning Capture One. I wasn't aware of the different between an "Inside Catalog" and "Current Location", and imported a lot of pics as an Inside Catalog, which just duplicates the files on the hard drive. Does anyone know if it is possible to make a new Current Location Catalog and copy the edits from the Inside Catalog to the new Current Location Catalog? I have exported some of the pics, but would like to keep my settings so I don't have to start from scratch again. It would sure be nice if it was possible. (Exposure allows one to have two sessions running at once, and one can copy from one to the other, but Capture One does not.)
I have looked at the above similar posts, but none seem to address my issue above, of moving the settings from an Inside Catalog to a Current location Catalog.
Has anyone come across this delema and know how to fix this?
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There are two ways to achieve this.
One way is to move the images from inside the catalog to the desired location outside. When you do this from Capture One, the adjustments will carry over.
Another way is that you go to File > Export Images > Originals and export to the desired location. Next, you delete the images from your catalog. Next, you import the images you just exported with 'Current location' to your catalog.
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Just to explain further, when doing an inside Catalog of images already on the hard drive, it already duplicates the files size (in my case Gigs).
So was looking for a way to capture the edit files, and then apply them to the images already in my pics folder but in a new Current Location Catalog. So there would only be one set of Raw files on my hard drive.
With all of the C1 customers, this must have happened to some, so would think C1 would like to make this an option.
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I should have added in my instructions, that you delete the raw files in their current location, as you do not need a double set, and save (move or export, as per instructions) the images into the location it was initially copied from.
You can not capture the edit files from a catalog. They are in the catalog database and stay there during the move or are exported with the originals in sidecar files and put back in the catalog on import.
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Suggestion.... I highly recommend you making a small catalog with subdirectories and images that live on your hard drive. Edit some of the images, star them, etc. Then play around with the various ways suggested here and other ways you think might work to move the files.
It is what I did and I learned a lot about "finding missing files", synchronizing, sharing folders, adding in existing folders a catalog, importing from outside of C1 (and then figuring out that was not the best way to do imports), etc.
Kevin
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Hi Kevin,
Appreciate your response. Very good suggestions.
I should not started with such a large number of Raw files on my hard drive from a photo shoot.
I have been doing photography for many tens of years, so have tons of images in tons of folders.
I have used many different software over the years, and refrained from having any software control where my images are stored etc. Although C1 is the top pic right now, really don’t want to have it control where my images are.
It is an easy mistake for newbies to make. It would have been better if C1 made “Current Folder” the default, and forced people to think before making a Catalog. Hope they listen.
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Hi Lawrence,
I would suggest you go to the top level of the forum and add a suggestion to the feature request. I have to agree on that. I have it drilled into my brain now to change the destination in imports when I do them. Another thing that I have to deal with is the destination folder. I use the year as my top level directory, but I have more that one catalog using the year in different directory structures, so I have to hover over the destination so I can see where that destination really points to before I select it.
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