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

Status Awaiting review
Workspace Feature requests
Categories Capture One Pro
Created by Вячеслав Мурашкин
Created on Aug 22, 2025

Exporting with maintaining the folder hierarchy

Tokens are good at creating hierarchy, but they don't adapt to a dynamic structure.

For example, I have a structure:

D:\Work\Capture One\RAW\08/19/2025\204511\1 Studio

D:\Work\Capture One\RAW\08/19/2025\204511\2 Reportage

D:\Work\Capture One\RAW\08/19/2025\204511\3 Teachers


There is a task to save all this to a folder D:\Work\Capture One\JPG

All other structures should be identical to the files in the RAW folder.


By selecting folder 204511 and creating tokens in Subfolder

[Current Day of Month (dd)]\[Collection Name].[Current Month (MM)].[Current Year (yyyy)]\[Image Folder Name]

We get a suitable option (the edit date will be the current one, not the one indicated on the folder, but this is not so important).


But if we need to make edits to several files in a folder 1 Studio We won't be able to simply select files and export them. In order to find the file in the "1 Studio" folder faster, the logical step would be to select this folder. Because of this, our entire token structure will shift, and as a result, when exporting, we will not overwrite this file (as expected), but export it along the way ...JPG\08.19.2025\1 Studio\1 Studio\

The essence of creating the structure was to ensure that exports were made to the same location.:

...JPG\08.19.2025\204511\1 Studio\

Current workaround

In order for the structure to always work correctly, when exporting, you need to select a certain folder level around which the structure was created and select it when exporting everything. After that, in the displayed photos from the subfolders, select those that need to be re-exported and exported. Or (which is easier), just select all the photos and re-export them with overwriting. But to be honest, it's very inconvenient.

  • Admin
    Capture One Product Manager
    Aug 25, 2025

    Hello, I think the two tokens named "Image Parent Folder Name" and "Image Grandparent Folder Name" might help achieve what you want, see this article: https://support.captureone.com/hc/en-us/articles/360002578618-Tokens-and-their-definitions