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Request a new feature, or support for a camera/lens that you would like to use in Capture One.

Status Future consideration
Workspace Feature requests
Created by Jan Hammerstad
Created on May 26, 2025

Add folder to Smart Albums

I like the new concept of Session Albums. But it also breaks some things, especially Smart Albums.

I have several Smart Albums that previously only reacted to pictures in the Capture folder. Now they include all pictures in the entire session, including output-folders. So I get a lot of doubles - the original in Capture, and all the different versions in the Output-folder.

Eg. I have a Smart Album called 'Without Title'. It simply looks for images that does not have the Title set. I have almost no images without title in Capture, and I alwasy use this Smart Album to find newly added images that need a title. So I usually have very few. Now I have 5988 in this album because it includes all the folders in the session, - and I have several export-folders with the exported images.

It would be much better if I could include what folder to use in the Smart Album logics.

Current workaround

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  • Maxim Lemeshenko
    Jun 30, 2025

    Exactly! There should be a middle ground between no new features, and new feaures with extra stuff we didnt ask for. I think we should be able to limit which folders C1 looks into in session, especially not subfolders in OUTPUT

  • Admin
    Capture One Product Manager
    May 26, 2025

    Hi Jan, thanks for the feedback!

    We're aware of that, we're looking into solutions as we speak. In the meantime, you have a setting to disable the new section completely, it will return your library tool to how it worked before the update.