Capture One Find Missing Files



When you import a photo into your catalog, Capture One records the paths of the raw material. But what happens when you accidentally rename or move an image into another location using your file manager?

  1. A locate button is present to point Capture One 7 to the new location. Click the ‘Locate’ button and browse to the correct, new location for the missing folder. Once located, click “Open” in the browser window to re-establish a link in Capture One.
  2. Lightroom have really good feature to find nearby missing files (see screenshot). When I try capture one, I can't find something like this. Do you suggest tagging 300-400 files each individually? Or is the only way to do this export first, then remove them from the catalog, and then import again? Even in trial version C1 lost one of my folders.
  3. A directory must contain at least one file. DISM can also optionally apply and capture extended attributes (EA). You can capture the image as a Windows image (.wim) file or a set of split Windows image (.swm) files, but this option doesn’t support capturing a virtual hard disk (.vhd/.vhdx) file. See /Capture-FFU if you are looking to capture.
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Step One

If those case when Capture One not able to locate an already imported image, you will see a question mark on bottom left corner in the thumbnail of the photo on the browser window and a question mark and an Offline text on the viewer window, indicating that the raw material is missing.

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Like Lightroom, Capture One can open files from your hard drive (s) and work on them directly without moving them anywhere, however. Capture One also has a “Session” option, which creates a project like file called a “Session” and a few folders to contain.

Step Two

In this case you only have to right click on the image, select Locate… from the menu and browse the appropriate image in your file system. In our case I renamed the photo to Dávid Alexander 15a.IIQ, so after the file browser appeared I have to find and select the file named Dávid Alexander 15a.IIQ and click Open.

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In some situations you may wish to export a raw image file that have been adjusted from a Catalog.

This could be to:
– Import the image into another Catalog database
– To continue working on the file on another computer
– To send the raw file to another person for further adjustments

When working within a Catalog in Capture One Pro 7, adjustments for each image are stored within the Catalog database and not in image sidecar files. To get the original image file with it’s adjustments, you therefore need to use the Export Originals option.

A raw file with adjustments can then be imported normally via the Import Images menu.

Step 1: Exporting the raw file with adjustments

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When you have finished your adjustments on one or more images in Capture One Pro 7, choose File>Export>Originals.

The following Export dialogue will then appear:

Simply choose a location under Store Files and make sure the Include Adjustments box is checked.

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When the export has completed, the raw file will be exported alongside an additional folder called CaptureOne. The Settings70 folder contains all the necessary information for Capture One to apply the adjustments made to the file before the export.

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Step 2: Importing the raw file with adjustments

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When you are ready to import the image again, open the Import Dialogue, choose the location of your exported originals and make sure the Include Existing Adjustments box is checked as shown below.

When the import process has completed, the raw file will show in Capture One Pro with the adjustments.

Remember, you can also do this with batches of multiple images to speed up your workflow.

All the best,

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Niels

The Image Quality Professor

The digital pioneer, Niels V. Knudsen, is Phase One’s Image Quality Professor and founder of the IQP blog. Moreover, he is responsible for breakthrough advancements in image quality both in Phase One’s medium format camera systems and in Capture One Pro.





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