[Leica] Raw Developers - Capture One LE question

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

>Mine isn't working that way, by default I've got:
>
>~\Pictures\
>       Capture One Default Session\
>               Captures\
>                       Capture One Settings\
>                       L1000032.DNG
>                       ...
>               Default.session
>               Processed\
>               Trash\
>
>The DNG's are all 10.1 M, even after modifying them. Did you 
>"capture" them from external media or the camera or copy over from a 
>directory?
>
>c.

I just pointed Capture One to the directory that had the DNGs. They 
were read in with a card reader. v3.7.6 LE on a Mac.

In the directory with the DNG's a folder 'Capture One Settings' is 
created, and in that three sub folder: 'ImageSettings', 'Previews' 
and 'Thumbnails'.

For a DNG named L1001111.DNG, a 484 byte file 'L1001111.DNG.plist' is 
created in 'ImageSettings', a 213,417byte file 
'L1001111.DNG.thumbnail' is created in 'Thumbnails' and a 
13,735,112byte file 'L1001111.DNG.preview' is created in 'Previews'.

So a total of about 14Mb is created from the original 10.1Mb file, 
and the original is still sitting next to them. Ugh!!

BTW, in my 'Pictures' directory I also have what you show, except all 
the directories are empty. Maybe its necessary to use the 'Pictures' 
directory to avoid this mess. My images are all on external data 
drives.

It seems to me there must be some way to not have it create this huge 
'duplicate' preview. I'm not excited about the thumbnail files and 
plists, but the latter (probably) stores the non-destructive 
processing info, and the thumbnails, well... it's like necessary to 
store that somewhere, somehow.

I'll probably stick to the Adobe products, even though Bridge 
sluggish. With Canon files I never used Bridge, just let iView 
MediaPro catalog the files, and opened the files up directly from 
there. iView MediaPro doesn't read DNG's, and since it's now a 
Microsoft product, it will likely be a loooong time before that gets 
fixed.


>On Feb 21, 2007, at 12:19 PM, Henning Wulff wrote:
>
>>I installed Capture One, and was trying it for a bit.
>>
>>Then I noticed it created a folder alongside my DNG images, and not 
>>only replicated them, but made larger versions of them! The DNGs 
>>went from just over 10 to over 13Mb, plus previews etc.
>>
>>I know that hard drive space is getting cheap, but I've already got 
>>a number of hard drives full of images, backup drives etc. I don't 
>>want to suddenly need more than twice the number of drives if I'm 
>>using Capture One on some images.
>>
>>Is this the only way Capture One works? If so, I'm dumping it.

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