Locating files after restructuring storage drives

Colin

• 2022年08月28日 15:51

I needed to manually copy my photo archive to a new drive (actually a DrivePool consisting of several drives which register as a single drive) and for purposes of monitoring the drive health and transfer rates, I had to do this outside of Capture One. Once completed, I wanted to get my Capture One catalog to reference these copied files instead of the originals (retaining all my edits), so I went to the old archive folder in capture one (under the old drive letter), right-clicked, and selected Locate, then I chose the equivalent folder on the new drive. C1 popped up a 'Locating...' dialog (with no actual progress/percentage indication, just an animation) and has been locating now for about 45 minutes with no indication of progress. Should I force quit C1 because something because this is hanging unnaturally? Or is this normal? The folder consists of a good ~8TB of files, so if C1 is checking them one by one (?), I assume that's going to take a while. But how long? The files just need to be read by the catalog, not moved in any way. Any advice here is appreciated, thanks!

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  Colin

  • 2022年08月28日 19:11

  Update for anyone facing a similar behavior: After 3 hours of the 'Locating' animation I threw in the towel and force-quit C1 via Task Manager. Upon restarting the app it appeared about 3/4 of my files were relocated on the new drive and the rest remained listed under the old drive. So I think ultimately C1 was doing what I expected it to do, but A) in a completely opaque way with no indication of process, and B) in a way that suggests to me it's not really designed to relocate terabytes of files at one time. And FYI for anyone in the same situation, to complete the final ~3 of years of references, I selected and 'Located' the remaining files on a per-year folder basis instead of from the parent archive folder containing everything. The smaller chunk process seemed to make go quicker, each resolved in a few minutes. 

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  Permanently deleted user

  • 2022年08月29日 11:43

  

  Yeah, boo on C1 for not offering any type of visual progress

  A user not using the software as it's designed to be used, is hardly the fault of Capture One...

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  Colin

  • 2022年08月29日 13:31

  A user not using the software as it's designed to be used, is hardly the fault of Capture One...

  Thank you for this contribution, Keith, however as both a UI/UX designer and a working photographer who initiated this thread by pursuing a fairly typical action for professionals managing a large volume of raw media, I would disavow the notion that I was at any point not using the software as it's intended to be used—that the Locate action exists is a testament to that. And John Friend merely reiterated my point that the software performs the Locate action in a decidedly opaque way, potentially leaving the user uninformed for hours on end. There's no question that this represents a negative user experience. And as for my later speculation that this experience "suggests to me it's not really designed to relocate terabytes of files at one time," I must not have made it clear that such is an indictment of C1's development of this particular feature; I was not admitting to some kind of wrongdoing. I think it goes without saying that dealing with many terabytes of files is commonplace and expected in photography today. 

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