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The View

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Moving a catalog to a new external hard drive
« on: December 07, 2015, 12:13:26 am »

My external hard drive that hosts my catalog has been reporting write errors through Carbon Copy Cloner, so I'll move it to a new and bigger hard drive.

How do you get Capture one Pro 8 to follow this? I have about 300 to 400 image folders in there, so it can't be that I use the "locate" feature for each folder.

How do you move the whole catalog so the reference files get updated?
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Re: Moving a catalog to a new external hard drive
« Reply #1 on: December 07, 2015, 04:08:19 am »

My external hard drive that hosts my catalog has been reporting write errors through Carbon Copy Cloner, so I'll move it to a new and bigger hard drive.

How do you get Capture one Pro 8 to follow this? I have about 300 to 400 image folders in there, so it can't be that I use the "locate" feature for each folder.

How do you move the whole catalog so the reference files get updated?

Just locate the top parent folder.

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Re: Moving a catalog to a new external hard drive
« Reply #2 on: December 07, 2015, 04:50:29 am »

Just locate the top parent folder.

Does that work also with only some moved folders?

I import my files always to C:\...\pic\capturedate\
after processing I move the finished folder to Z:\...\pic\capturedate\
then I use the locate function for each moved folder.
But if I understand you right, I just can use the locate function on C:\...\pic\ and set it to Z:\...pic\. it will only update those I moved and let anything else as it is?

I'm a little scared to just try it, because I don't want to have a mess at the end. :)
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Re: Moving a catalog to a new external hard drive
« Reply #3 on: December 07, 2015, 05:57:43 am »

Does that work also with only some moved folders?

I import my files always to C:\...\pic\capturedate\
after processing I move the finished folder to Z:\...\pic\capturedate\
then I use the locate function for each moved folder.
But if I understand you right, I just can use the locate function on C:\...\pic\ and set it to Z:\...pic\. it will only update those I moved and let anything else as it is?

I'm a little scared to just try it, because I don't want to have a mess at the end. :)

Maybe a naive question - why not just import to Z in the first place?

In your case it wouldn't work as Z does not need to be relocated but in the OP's scenario he has moved an ENTITRE structure.   ;)

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Re: Moving a catalog to a new external hard drive
« Reply #4 on: December 07, 2015, 07:25:28 am »

Because the first folder is local and SSD (C-drive) and the 2nd is in the network and SATA (z-drive). The catalogue is on another local SSD (D-drive) and stays there.
But maybe there is not much (performance) difference in C1, if the RAW file is local/SSD or 1GB-network/SATA? I hardly work on files on the Z-drive, so I don't have tried this out jet...
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Re: Moving a catalog to a new external hard drive
« Reply #5 on: December 09, 2015, 12:18:59 am »

Just locate the top parent folder.

The top parent folder of all the RAW files?

From Capture One Pro?

How?

Also, I have one top folder per year of RAW files, but not one that unites them all.

And I can't see a single folder in Capture One Pro.

So I can't really place your comment.
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Re: Moving a catalog to a new external hard drive
« Reply #6 on: December 09, 2015, 08:53:11 am »

The top parent folder of all the RAW files?

From Capture One Pro?

How?

Also, I have one top folder per year of RAW files, but not one that unites them all.

And I can't see a single folder in Capture One Pro.

So I can't really place your comment.

Hi View,

This is really like shooting fish in a barrel, without seeing your folder structure and so forth.

Can I suggest the fastest resolution is to make a support case?  Www.phaseone.com/support

David
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Re: Moving a catalog to a new external hard drive
« Reply #7 on: October 21, 2018, 02:11:51 am »

Just locate the top parent folder.

Returning to an old subject ...

What do you mean by "locate" ??
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