frjack wrote:
Does anyone have suggestions for creating and managing "sessions" in Capture One? .... I keep everything on an external drive that switches between two computers. ...
I can appreciate your frustration in trying to get accustomed to a new program but it seems that your intended use (switching between two computers) is exactly what Sessions are intended for.
I have been working with computers for over four decades and I find Sessions to be more intuitive, portable and safer than catalogs. They are also easier to back up.
There may be easier ways to get going but here is how I do it:
1. Open Capture One and click on File/New Session...
2. Select a new name for the session to replace "Untitled Session" with, for example "Temp"
3. On the "Location:" line, select a location on your hard drive or external hard drive, for example "C:\Digitals"
4. Click OK. That will create a new set of folders, for example: C:\Digitals\Temp\Capture, C:\Digitals\Temp\Output, C:\Digitals\Temp\Selects, C:\Digitals\Temp\Trash
5. Turn on your camera and connect it to your computer (or plug the memory card from your camera into your computer)
6. Using Windows Explorer (or whatever Mac calls it) open the directory containing your camera's raw files, select and copy them
7. Open the Capture folder, for example C:\Digitals\Capture, and paste them
8. Back in Capture One, click on File\Import Images... , select the session's Capture folder and click on "Import All" or select any of the raw files and click on "Import
n Images"