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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 Michel de Coninck
Created on Dec 18, 2025

Capability to change default location of Session/Catalogs as a Global preference

Because I am shooting tethered to a laptop and then transferring the Session files via a USB stick to my my editing platform - a Windows PC - changing the default Session file location during the shoot does not help me. I need to be able to point Capture One on my PC to my dedicated Client drive (not C:Pictures) every time it opens up. This needs to be done in a preference setting - completely separate from any options during a Session shoot.


Please allow the location for the default Sessions folder (C:\Pictures) to be changed at the global level. I do not save my Session folder (or Catalog folders) on my default Pictures drive. It is on another drive. This is extremely annoying. If I forget that I am opening the session on the default drive, which is my Pictures folder (on my OneDrive from the shoot) then the pictures start downloading from the OneDrive cloud - which I do not want happening!

I then have to shut down Capture One because it crashes after stopping the download and trying to go back to my other drive where I have already transferred the Session files

PLEASE FIX. This is driving me crazy. Thank you.

Michel

Current workaround

The work around is that I have to pay attention when I am opening up the client session folder on my PC and make sure that I am not opening it up where my default Pictures folder is located. Currently is located in my OneCloud drive where I automatically backup shoots that were tethered to my laptop. I always have to remember to open the Session files from the Dedicated Client drive where I moved the session files via USB from the laptop to the PC.