Hi everybody.
After using a quite big referenced catalog (20GB, 6 years of images) for a while, I decided to clean it up and make it leaner. So I removed about 80% of the content. I got rid of the images in the C1 browser, but surprise: the catalog size didn't shrink! Still 20GB.
To reproduce it I...
1) created a referenced catalog with just 4 images. I used images on a USB drive, just like in the 'real' catalog.
2) removed 2 of the images. They were removed from displayed images in the image browser.
3) used finder, looked with 'show package contents' into the *.cocoatalog file. Result: .cof and .cop files were still in the 'cache' folder.
4) re-add the 2 files previously removed.
5) removed them again.
6) used finder, looked with 'show package contents' into the *.cocoatalog file. Result: these .cof and .cop files were now left twice in different folders within the 'cache' folder.
...) can be repeated.
(Re-opening the catalog, restarting C1 or Mac at any point, trashing or keeping image files doesn't change behavior.)
So removing images from a catalog leaves a lot of garbage, eating up disk space. I found up to 4 Mbyte per image. All .cof and .cop files ever created are in there, from all ever removed images.
Forever? Why? Is there a way to clean it up?
Best regards,
Hans-B.