Move or rename sessions

Peter306

• 2015年08月28日 23:17

I'm running Capture One 8 on a Windows 7 PC. I use sessions, not a catalog.
My photos are stored under Pictures, I have a folder for the year, followed by a folder named with a 4-digit date and the name of the session. So, for example, C:\Users\MyUserName\Pictures\2015\0828OregonTrip The standard "untethered" session folders names are under that.

The problem I'm encountering is that Capture One's control files have the full path to session folders and files hard-coded inside. This makes it very difficult to move or rename folders.

My questions:
1. Every so often, I misname the session when I create it. Is there a way to rename the folder? If not, is there an easy way to recreate the session folders with the correct name, then move everything (raw files, adjustments, etc) into that new session folder?

2. My hard drive is about 3/4 full. If I add an additional hard drive to my PC Is it possible (meaning reasonably easy) to move old work to the new drive? Or am I stuck with leaving things where they are and using the new drive for new work? Since I have a couple hundred gigs of images on the old drive I'm sure my system performance would improve if I could free up space on the original (system) drive.

Thanks!
--Peter

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  Paul Steunebrink

  • 2015年08月29日 11:15

  Hi Peter,
  
  The concept of sessions is that it is entirely folder based and that all sessions sub folders are relative to the parent folder. That said, you close CO8, rename the session folder (and optionally the session db file) to a new name from Explorer and fire CO8 up again. If won't find the session if it was the last one used, browse from the Recent dialog to the session db file and open it.
  
  You can safely move the parent session folder with all subfolders and images inside it to a new location and open the session as just described.

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  Peter306

  • 2015年09月15日 21:53

  Thank you, Paul. This seems to work. When I do this, the newly-renamed or moved session takes a very long time to load the first time. So Capture One must going through the control files and repointing them correctly. It doesn't change all the old references (I looked with a Hex editor), but so far everything seems to work once the session loads the first time. After that, subsequent reloading of the session then works at about normal speed.
  
  I thought that renaming the folders outside of Capture One didn't work in Capture One 7.x. It's possible that the reload took so long that I stopped it and shut down the program before all the "housekeeping" was finished.
  
  --Peter

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