Need Identical C1 Environments on Two Macs - How?
I'm trying to switch from Lightroom to an already licensed Capture One 8.3.3 running on my Mac under El Capitan.
I want to have the same environment regardless of whether I'm working on my Mac Pro or on my MacBook. That's been accomplished using Lightroom by keeping image files and configuration files on an external drive.
Seems that the C1 image catalog and also the C1 files installed by default in ~/Library/Application Support/Capture One/ would have to live on the external drive to give me what I need.
How do I get C1 to look to the external drive for the C1 /Application Support/Capture One/ files?
Is that the best way to achieve identical use on two computers? Am I missing anything?
Thanks in advance,
I want to have the same environment regardless of whether I'm working on my Mac Pro or on my MacBook. That's been accomplished using Lightroom by keeping image files and configuration files on an external drive.
Seems that the C1 image catalog and also the C1 files installed by default in ~/Library/Application Support/Capture One/ would have to live on the external drive to give me what I need.
How do I get C1 to look to the external drive for the C1 /Application Support/Capture One/ files?
Is that the best way to achieve identical use on two computers? Am I missing anything?
Thanks in advance,
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If you have set up a customised workspace, like say having the tools on the right instead of the left if you prefer that, hiding the capture tool tab if you never use it, and so on, you might like also to save your workspace and copy it to the other computer. It seems that these settings are saved in a plist file. I have a workspace called Ian which has some settings I prefer. It seems to be stored at
Macintosh HD > Users > {my user name} > Library > Application Support > Capture One > Workspaces
and it is a file called Ian.plist.
I expect you could copy that to the equivalent location on the other computer.
(I am on Yosemite not El Capitan, but I expect the principle is the same.)
Ian0 -
Hi Ian,
Thanks for your suggestions.
I'm really trying to have a completely automated process with all of the C1-related files (except for the app itself) on the external/portable drive.
If necessary, I'll experiment with putting all those files on the external drive and making and putting aliases to the external-drive folders/files back at the expected locations on the internal drives.
Before I spend time on that, I'm hoping someone or Phase One will reply with a known-to-work solution.
Tnx,0 -
Marty
Yes I knew that was your main request. I don't use catalogs or an external drive myself, so I can't help with that. Hopefully someone will come along who can.
I just thought that ensuring the same workspace was an additional thing that you might find helpful.
Ian0 -
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Hi Ian,
Thanks for your suggestions.
I'm really trying to have a completely automated process with all of the C1-related files (except for the app itself) on the external/portable drive.
If necessary, I'll experiment with putting all those files on the external drive and making and putting aliases to the external-drive folders/files back at the expected locations on the internal drives.
Before I spend time on that, I'm hoping someone or Phase One will reply with a known-to-work solution.
Tnx,
Marty,
As this is primarily a User to User forum with unofficial Phase Staff involvement from time to time you may or may not catch anyone passing through who can offer some advice based on experience.
That said the question might have a greater response rate in the Mac forum than in this more general area.
Either way I would recommend that you also create a Support Case and ask the same question in order to obtain an official response and observations from the Capture One support team.
Apart from anything else doing that will raise the subject as something that may benefit all users in the future and so perhaps could be considered for some sort of official feature development. Or maybe there is already a way to satisfy the requirement without much trouble, though this may vary from OS to OS or even OS version to OS version. Or so I might guess.
HTH.
Grant0 -
Grant,
Points well taken. I have already opened a support case and am hoping that PhaseOne will point me to a solution. If they do I will share.
If nothing results from PhaseOne or here after a few days, I'll try restarting my query in the Mac forum.
Tnx,0 -
Marty - you can use symlinks. There is no way to keep configuration somewhere else at least at this stage to my knowladge. 0 -
Andriy.Okhrimets wrote:
Marty - you can use symlinks. There is no way to keep configuration somewhere else at least at this stage to my knowladge.
Thanks Andrly,
Will give it a try over the next week or so. Plan is…- Use "Find Any File" app to hopefully locate all the "Capture One" files.
Set up a reasonable hierarchy on my external drive.
Move the "Capture One" files into that hierarchy.
Use the Mac's "Make Alias" command to create aliases of "Capture One" files or enclosing folders (i.e. symlinks:-).
Move the aliases (symlinks) to the places on my internal drives where the folders/files were originally installed.
Fire it up and keep my fingers crossed 😊
Will post the results.
Best,0 -
Yeh, will happy to see results, because it might open new opportunities. Keep in mind that USB bus may be a huge problem if your drive is USB2.0, but even on USB 3.0 you might encounter performance decrease 0
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