Rename and move DB

[joreku]

Hi,

I'm new with PhotoSupeme and I created my first catalog without a clue how it should be named.
Now the catalog file is in the standard director with the standard name (../Library/Dimager Systems, Inc./Catalog/photosupreme.cat.db).

Because I would like to have some another catalogs for different reason , I would like to rename and move this standard catalog to another dir.

What's the promising way for this ?

Thanks,
Jo

[Hert]

Hi Jo, a warm welcome to the forum.
Try this;
1. Start PSU
2. Open preferences
3. Enable the login dialog
4. Apply the preferences
5. Close PSU
6. Move the catalog files with Mac Finder to the folder of your liking and name it if you like
7. Start PSU
8. In the login dialog, point to the moved/renamed catalog
9. Optionally disable the login dialog again

[kdms]

100% new to this Forum and Photo Supreme. I have been using Media Pro, extremely simple to use. I just need a software that can catalog my images but I need to know where the catalogs are located- what was outlined previously - the catalog isn't there. I also would really like the ability to NAME a catalog before I make one, does that option exist? I am running in Demo mode at this point to evaluate Photo Supreme. So far all I am getting are headaches and an app that is DEFINITELY not user friendly at this point. Importing is easy, but like I said, I'd like to know where the catalog is and how to add to that catalog if the need arises. Or is the simplest method would be to have an older system to run Media Pro 2? I am really hoping Photo Supreme can work as I see a cataloging software should and what I have been somewhat use to using teh last 25 years.

[Hert]

A warm welcome to the forum.

By default the catalog is located in:

macOS: ~/Library/IDimager Systems, Inc./Catalog
WIndows: %localappdata%\IDimager Systems, Inc.\Catalog

You can create a new catalog, and name it yourself. Click the top left hamburger menu, then Catalog -> Create a new Catalog

[kdms]

Thank you, I have been completely frustrated by Photo Supreme so far. Could this be an age thing? thank you for that information. I have been creating the catalog but when I go to look at it, it doesn't show up, when I ask it to open the catalog later, I get nothing. So obviously I am missing something. Mind you I have been using Medi Pro2 for sometime now which actually was perfect expect, it didn't see 3F files from the Hasselblad or the Imacon Scanner, Photo Supreme at least sees those formats. I just need to get my head around this from the very beginning and no skipped steps which from the tutorials I have seen do not go step by step explaining the terminology that is being used which seem to be different from what I am use to. Thank you

[Hert]

You mentioned switching away from MediaPro.
Switching applications is never easy and even more so if you switch not because you want to switch but because the old application is no longer maintained and you're forced to look into something else.

The most important thing is the mind set. Do not expect any other application to behave and work the way your old application does. Don't expect anything to be the same and you won't be surprised that it's different in other software. One thing is sure, PSU can probably do everything you used in MediaPro, just not the same way.
Beside that, start with a small set of copied images and try to learn the basics of what you need. Getting started is really simple. Don't try to understand the entire application at once. Stick with the basics of what you need.
Going from MediaPro to Photo Supreme is quite a culture shock, especially if you've been using MP for years and are fully comfortable using it. Many went down the same path as you're going through now. I've had former MP users sending me many many many (and many more) question going forward learning about Photo Supreme. And the light at the end of the tunnel: all of them stated afterwards that they are so happy that they made the switch to Photo Supreme.

Again, start with a small set of images and learn the Photo Supreme way without expecting that things are the same as in MediaPro.

And ask, ask ask. If you can't find how to do it: ask your question here before getting frustrated

I assume you also read this:
https://www.idimager.com/mediapro-to-photo-supreme

And here's a blog from someone who also made the switch:
https://oldgoodlight.blogspot.com/p/photo-supreme.html

[dlp0918]

I was a Media Pro user through two product owners. Before that I used Canto Cumulus. I struggled with each transition to a new program (typically forced by product abandonment or by equipment changes on my side). The easiest transition of these was moving from Media Pro to Idimager because Hert and company had provided some product-internal support for the Media Pro data migration. The other conversions were nightmares -- the worst of which was the need to manually re-enter fields of data that did not move to the next product accurately or at all.

After the products mentioned above, I moved my photo data to Idimager, and was not pleased at the time to have to move later to Photo Supreme. BUT, in that transition I did not lose data and did not need to spend untold hours manually recreating catalog information in the newer program. (There was a learning curve going from Idimager to Photo Supreme and there was an initial loss of some program functionality, but the underlying program design of Photo Supreme seems to be more sturdy and more future-proof than Idimager's. Also the ongoing development of Photo Supreme quickly provided far more capabilities than the older program.)

And I should mention that Photo Supreme's use of metadata standards should make future moves to other systems somewhat painless.

Sometimes being able to chat with someone who has experienced similar problems to those you are facing can be very helpful. If there is a safe and simple way to manage such conversations, I'd be happy to chat with you, kdms.

- dPaine