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capture one file management is an absolute mess

or rather: my use case is poorly covered by it

i want to: 1. copy on import into an capture-time ISO8601 dir structure of my choosing, so all my masters go into iCloud 2. cull into long-running sessions that reference the masters, but keep outputs local iCloud/Photography/ ./RAWS/YYYY/MM/DD/raw+xmp ./Sessions/<name>/{selected,outputs}

#1 right now catalogs would either reference files (so i have to manually copy them from the SD cards) or manage them inside the .cocatalog file (which is massive and supposed to be opaque) a session always copies and you can do is8601 BUT it won't *see* the files below the first folder

this means i can import into asession from my sd card, and on disk it'll look like ./Sessions/{name}/Captured/YYYY/MM/DD/raw which is very close to what i want but the session browser doesn't see pictures in child dirs of Captured! so i gotta manually create favorites or tag 'em which is ugh

what sessions do *great* is being self contained: captured, selected, and outputs are all within the same folder (so yay i won't lose those exported JPEGs anymore!)

the recommended flow is to create sessions for every day/shoot/whatever you do, and then once you're done editing and outputting things for it, import a session into your catalog and then use the catalog as an archive. BUT then you can't re-edit the session and have it sync

lightroom would handle this for you, so i never saw my raws on disk they were cloud sync'd by adobe. that was great! in fact, these past few days trying to find a reasonable way to impoirt and cull a 30,000 picture catalog have made me miss lightroom catalog management (for my use case)