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Request a new feature, or support for a camera/lens that you would like to use in Capture One.
Request a new feature, or support for a camera/lens that you would like to use in Capture One.
I backup my catalog weekly. Over time the backups pile up on the hard drive and take up a lot of space. It would be nice if there was an option in the backup dialogue to automatically delete backups older than x upon completion of the current backup activity.
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Current workaround
There isn’t one really. When I start running out of disk space I dig into the backups folder and manually delete old backup files. |
This made me look and I had 25GB of backups that I wasn't aware of. I can delete manually but options to do cleanup should be standard.
FYI, I developed my own script (scheduled with Windows Task Scheduler) that runs nightly that lets me specify the minimum number of days of backups to keep (default is 30) and the minimum number of backups to keep even if they are all older than the days setting (default is 10). So, I will always have at least the 10 most recent backups and if I was backing up daily, it would keep backups for the last 30 days. If I go a long while without backing up (such that all the backups were older than 30 days), then it would keep the last 10. Capture One should implement something similar, but it probably only needs to run the cleanup algorithm after it makes a new backup rather than nightly.
Adding to this .. let the user choose either date-based retention (ie 1 month, 6 weeks, etc) or number of backups to retain (3 most recent, 1 most recent, 10 most recent, etc).
It also should warn if disk space is getting low on the backup destination volume.