Catalog Conversion PSE 6 to PSE 10 Fails but did it?

I have gone through all of the links regarding problems (repairing the catalog in pse 6, optiizing, reindexing, etc.) and no problems are apparent in pse 6 but I get the "comversion failed..." error when trying to convert to a pse 10 catalog. Nevertheless, a "temporary" catalog is created and as far as I can tell it seems to be OK. I have repaired it in pse 10 successfully, it seems to show all of my images properly in the "folders" display mode, my tags seem to work, but it bothers me that pse 10 said the conversion failed.
What's the deal? I don't want to put a lot of effort and confidence into pse 10 and find out some serious flaw is there after all.

OK, I very methodically did every step in
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/916/cpsid_91690.html
for the third or more time and get the same "conversion failed." As far as the log file here is what it says:
conversion log: xxxRawCatalog to xxxRawCatalog temp 1
updating volume for creation 64622
updating volume for creation 126413
updating volume for creation 231561
updating volume for creation 231731
where xxx is just the detailed path to the folders involved. I don't see any clues as to something going amiss.
Any further help - anyone?

Similar Messages

Conversion of PSE 6 Catalog to PSE 8 fails

I recently purchased PSE 8 and installed it on my computer. When I attempted to convert the PSE 6 catalog, I get the error message that the conversion failed and to repair the catalog with the original program. I had the program to seach for disconnected files (I found a few and either reconnected them or deleted them) and then ran the repair and optimize functions and then attempted to run the conversion again. The conversion failed again and the log shows the following:
conversion log: C:/Users/Bob Brown/Pictures/Adobe/Photoshop Elements/Catalogs/Bubbas Catalog to C:/Users/Bob Brown/Pictures/Adobe/Photoshop Elements/Catalogs/Bubbas Catalog temp 1
updating volume for creation 30186
updating volume for creation 33981
updating volume for creation 38992
updating volume for creation 115033
updating volume for creation 115046
updating volume for creation 115059
updating volume for creation 115068
caught exception "The path specified already exists in the database."
I am not sure what the last sentence means.

It is slightly more work but copy and paste does work between the two applications.
I am still curious, without copying them why so many round about steps are needed. For instance why not just copy the files off the thumbdrive instead of the convoluted process of getting the file icon in TextEdit? What is that supposed to achieve?
P.

Getting conversion PDF to MSWord? paid subscription but did not get activation - What to do?

I paid the subscription price of $19.95 to enable conversion of an Adobe PDF file to MS Word. But it never shows up as active in the Tools list. How do I get Adobe to retrieve and activate? I do not see any e-mail way to contact customer support.

Which service exactly did you sign up for? If you go to My Adobe at http://www.adobe.com/ you can select My Subscriptions and Services to see what you have signed up for.

Catalog conversion error from PSE 9 to PSE10

Each time I try to convert the PSE 9 catalog using PSE10 I get an unspecified error.
I had problems after initially loading the programs and probably didn't choose the correct option to convert the catalog when first prompted. (I loaded Photoshop Elements and Photoshop Premiere 10). I currently have PSE 9.
I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the programs. When I tried to convert the catalog, the program acted it was going to work, but then the conversion stopped part way through and gave me the error.
After a couple of tries more unsuccessful tries at converting the catalog, I logged out of the program. The next time I opened the PSE10 Organizer, it showed a message that said it was updating and seemed to get stuck in a loop. I stopped the program and restarted it with the same result. I ended up uninstalling and reinstalling the programs again so that I could get past this step.
Before I tried to convert again from PSE 10, I first tried to repair and optimize the catalog from PSE 9. That did not seem to help and I got the same unspecified error part way through the conversion.
Please advise.

Ken,
I wanted to thank you for your help and tell you how the problem got resolved.
I sat down last night to implement some of your suggestions below and the Adobe chat window popped up. I decided to give that a try.
My previous attempts at conversion of the catalog from PSE9 to PSE 10 seemed to stop at about 35% complete and then I got an unspecified error message. After a few false starts, t he technician had me find a temporary file that was created in that process. In my case the program added temp 1 to the catalog folder name, so it was in a folder called My catalog 1 temp 1. Surprisingly, choosing that catalog in the catalog manager window resulted in what appeared to be a complete catalog/set of thumbnails in the PSE 10 organizer. The technician then had me restore my PSE9 backup in PSE10 (I did a PSE 9 backup before I installed the 10 software) . The restore took some time so I haven't had the opportunity to put it to the test but everything seems to be there, incuding videos and face recognition and I confirmed that I have access to the organizer from Premiere 10 also. I hope this helps you help someone else.
I hope Adobe developers read these forums and use that information to improve their programs this was an awful experience.
Thanks,
Kim

PSE 10 Catalog Conversion (from PSE 6) fails

Installed 10, prompted to convert catalog from previous version. All is well so far. Process starts, gets to 34% and hangs. Eventually times out and says conversion failed, that the catalog should be repaired in original app. I repaired in PSE 6 (though it did not say it needed to, did anyway). Then went back to PSE 10. Selected PSE 6 catalog and it completed conversion in 2 seconds 16, 227 photos, I don't think so!) Sure enough no photos came over to PSE 10.
I am now in a state where I can only get to my photos from PSE 10 and can not get the catalog to PSE 10. Please help??

There may be several reasons for this conversion failure, especially from version 6. I had two main catalogs and several smaller ones for projects for friends. Before trying the conversions, I did just like you, a repair and optimize before converting. In most cases, no problems. However I met two different failures.
One was due to the fact I had a couple of pictures in jpeg2000 format. The jpeg2000 format plugin was present in PSE6, not in PSE10.
In that case, instead of asking PSE10 to convert, I did a backup in PSE6 and a restore from PSE10 : bingo, I got a message showing the offending files. So my advice is to use the backup/restore way which does an automatic conversion with less problems.
The second case was on one of my main catalogs, which showed its age, with a lot of transfers between computers via backups on various external disks. I simply used psedbtools to check if something was wrong with my PSE6 catalog. (http://johnrellis.best.vwh.net/psedbtool/).
The result was 4 types of drives errors in the catalog from the 7 shown by John R Ellis... The organizer did handle that perfectly withi PSE6 : I never noticed errors in backup/restore. But as stated in the help documentation, those errors can be very problematic when upgrading to versions above 6.
So my advice now : first try the backup/restore way, then if not successful, install and run psedbtool and report back for more help.

Convert catalog from PSE 6 to 10, is it necessary to include the jpegs?

Hello
I am testing PSE 10 (from PSE 6) and have copied the catalog to a test XP box (but not the jpegs). The catalog refuses to convert with an unspecic error: "Catalog conversion failed" see "Catalog Conversion Errors" for more details.
PSE 6 can find no problems with the existing catalog and I have worked trhough eg http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/515/cpsid_51525.html .
If the conversion process requires the jpegs etc. then that will certainly cause a problem, they are not visible to this PC! On the other hand, if it is simply a matter of converting the catalog without reference to the source files then there should be no problem.
I am reluctant to allow a conversion process to break a very considerable investment in effort in the PSE6 catalog and want to see it work (and have useful benefit to me) before committing the original.
Some rough statistics: 45,000 images, 140GB data, catalog is around 1.5GB. It takes about 3 mins for 'repair' to run (having forced a 'repair anyway') and under 10 mins for 'optimize'.
I should add that I have run the psedbtool and while it finds that two drives are missing (E: and F:), there are no missing files. E: and F: are USB backup drives and are not connected, nor would I expect them to be. All photos are in one (top level that is) folder on one drive. If the convertor can only run when the backup drives are connected, that seems a little odd.
If the only option is to restore the backed up PSE 6 archive into PSE 10, that is do-able, but I was trying to avoid doing that.
Perhaps the more pertinant question is "what does PSE 10 offer that I haven't got in PSE 6?". So far I have not found any really useful function, maybe a couple of the irritating bugs have been fixed? (Mostly the date orderby bug) I have lived with the multi-core hang since PSE 6 came out and don't use PSE to catalog my raw files, so that fix has no benefit to me.

Well after an all day effort, I have a working W7 64 bit with a spare 1TB drive and all the updates done (about a 2GB download). That has taken about eight hours. Then recover the PSE 6 created backup files into PSE 10, (took about three hours) and for good measure forced a repair and optimize on the catalog. No errors at any point.
PSE 10 crashes when in slide show view. Sometimes it gets through about two images, sometimes 100 or so, but always it crashes. So I am ready to give up, PSE 6 is stable at least (though I have yet to try PSE 6 under W7 64bit, my standard PC is W XP 32 bit).
One possible benefit of W7 is the color fidelity is better (I have color calibration too). The management of the twin screen is not better though, PSE keeps vanishing from view (this is not related to the crash) and has to be coaxed back onto the secondary screen. PSE 6 under XP gets this right.
I checked the arm chair arm image again, it is the wooden arm of a director's portable chair seen from the side, no matter how I try I can't see a face in it. I realise now that the 'obvious' faces that get missed are when the eyes are not horizontal, even a small turning of the head results in the face being missed.

Import PSE 3 catalog into PSE 13?

I have an old PSE 3 catalog (.psa file) that I need to open in PSE 13. I downloaded, installed, and ran Adobe's dedicated converter, per Adobe's instructions and obtained a "successful conversion" message upon completion. However, when I open the resulting catalog in PSE 13 thumbnails for the "first" images display, but when I attempt to scroll down, or "Ctrl End" to the end of the catalog (there are more than 12,000 images in the catalog), PSE 13 hangs and "stops responding". Of course, what I care about is the tags attached to the images, and used to sort them in PSE 3. How do I recover/preserve/access this tag info? or, how do I "fix" the, obviously failed, conversion so that I create a catalog from my original .psa file that PSE 13 can correctly open?

On the new computer, in PSE9, select File->Restore Catalog, and point it to the backup you made from PSE3. You will be given several options about restoring the photos, including one that is to original directory location.
More details are here: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/402/kb402894.html (which was written for PSE6, but applies to later versions of PSE as well)

Problem converting pse 6 catalog to pse 7

I am a longtime pse user, I started with Album. I have photos from a trip that I had in pse 6 on my laptop that I want to get into pse 7 on my desktop. I have not found a lossless way to merge catalogs in pse so I have three catalogs. I successfully converted my desktop catalog from pse 5 to pse 7 with no problems. I backed up two catalogs under pse 6 on my laptop and restored them to my desktop system. I tried to covert each one but the conversion failed. I found that I had two eSATA drives with the same volume ID so I backed up my desktop catalog (the photos resided on one of the drives) and reformatted one drive. Pse was still confused so I reformatted the other drive as well. Pse 7 now runs fine for my former pse 5 desktop catalog which I’ll call catalog A. I restored the first of my pse laptop catalogs, I’ll call it catalog B, and after multiple attempts got it to convert by restoring it with pse 7, the automatic conversion after the restore was successful. I did the same with the remaining pse 6 backup file, call it catalog C, restoring it with pse 7 but the conversion failed. I did catalog repair but it found no errors, did ‘repair anyway’. Convert failed again. I optimized it, convert failed again. I checked the convert log and it says the catalog copy failed. The log showed that pse tried to copy the catalog to the location of my photos for catalog A to a file named the same as my catalog C name. The last line in the log is - caught exception "catalog copy failed". This implies to me that it never got far enough to encounter a ‘poison file’.
I have run out of ideas and any help would be appreciated. My last choice option is to use ‘get photos’ to get the catalog C photos into catalog B to get everything running under pse 7 rather than under multiple products.
I am going to make another forum entry but it may matter here that the catalogs of catalog B and C are in the same directories that I restored their photos to and are only found when I ask to find ‘custom location’ directories. The psedbtool program never sees them.

I created a new folder ‘Black Sea and Spitsbergen CATALOG’ and moved the catalog and thumbnail files to it. Pse 6 opened it and displayed the thumbnails faster than usual. When I do the catalog option Black Sea and Spitsbergen CATALOG shows as the current catalog. I did the reconnect all missing files and got the no missing files message. Did the repair catalog and got the no errors message did repair anyway. No errors found, I did the reconnect again, no missing files. I closed pse 6. Opened pse 7 file>catalog>convert>find more catalogs and pointed to the folder ‘Black Sea and Spitsbergen CATALOG’.
Pse found the catalog, I highlighted it and clicked on convert. I got the conversion completed successfully message! Clicked OK>done>open and the converted catalog opens. Catalog manager now shows both catalogs under the Custom Location radio button, fantastic! I did a reconnect and got the no missing files message.
Ok; so I think I learned the following:
1)      The current catalog name is determined by the name of the folder it resides in.
2)      The catalog and thumbnail files need to be in the same folder.
3)      It works better if the catalog and thumbnail files are in a separate folder from the pictures. I suspect performance is improved because it finds the thumbnail file faster; I have 21,000 photos in the catalog.
I suspect this could also solve my catalog move problem because pse may be moving the contents of the folder where the catalog resides. I am going to try it, will post the result under that discussion.
If you would be kind enough to confirm the above three points I would appreciate it. I will keep this open for your reply.
Thank you again, it seems simple now that I understand a bit more, thanks for your time and for sharing your knowledge.

More trouble trying to convert catalog from PSE 8 to PSE 9.

I am on a PC platform using the XP operating system. I am currently using PSE 8 and have just installed PSE 9. I have over 85,000 photos in my catalog, so would really like to have the catalog conversion work. What I've done so far is in PSE 8 reconnected, repaired, and optimized. When I try to convert the catalog in PSE 9, I get an error message that I need to try to repair the catalog in the original program. I've tried to backup the catalog to a hard drive and that fails as well. Any suggestions would be appreciated..............

Are you still facing this issue ? Try turning off the Auto Analyzer in preferences and also turn OFF the sync engine.

Converting PSE 4 catalog to PSE 7 catalog

I have several slideshows I put together in PSE 4 before saving them as wmv files to take over to Premiere Elements 2 to add a menu and burn to DVD. I had problems doing this and have just installed PSE 7 so I can save them as avi files instead but I am unable to find the original slideshows in the PSE 7 catalog. I did a search in Program Files for My Catalog and found the PSE 4 one but I'm not sure where to find the PSE 7 one, or how to move them over. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

1. When I did the catalog conversion in May, many of my tags and tag categories were missing or rearranged. Is there something I need to do in converting my PSE 4 catalog to 7 to prevent this from happening?
The conversion process is pretty buggy. Make sure you do File > Catalog > Recover in PSE 4 before attempting conversion. If that doesn't work, see steps 2 and 4 of this FAQ:
http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/photoshopelements-6-7-faq.htm#_Problems_converting_cat alogs
2. Now that I have re-installed 7, the old catalog I converted in May is still there. I need to delete this PSE 7 catalog in its entirety and reconvert my current PSE 4 catalog. When I try that, I get an error message that says "My Catalog already exists - use another catalog name". How do I get rid of the version 7 catalog from May?
You can delete the old catalog by doing File > Catalog, selecting My Catalog, and clicking Remove.
3. PSE 4 gave me the choice of showing my photos in either date sequence or in file name sequence within each folder. Does PSE 7 have the same ability to display in file name sequence? If so, I can't find it.
Display > Folder Location

Converting a catalog from PSE 6 to PSE 11

I am trying to convert a PSE 6 catalog to PSE 11. Both are in a Windows 7 environment. The conversion appears to proceed normally until it reaches about 36% complete, then it gets "stuck". Eventually I receive an error message indicating that the catalog did not convert correctly. Any suggestions on next steps would be appreciated.

If it’s on the same computer PSE normally prompts to upgrade automatically when you install PSE9
If transferring to a new computer, use full back-up and restore to a new location letting the program choose the set-up.
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/402/kb402894.html

Can't delete slide show from catalog in PSE 6

I am a fairly new user of PSE working in a Windows Vista environment. When I right click on the thumbnail of an unwanted slideshow in PSE 6
and select "Delete from Catalog" I get the message "An error occurred while reading files or writing files to disk. The disk may be full or there may be a problem with the source media". My disk is NOT full. The same thing happens when I try to do a full backup of my catalog. It seems to complete the backup, but then gives me the same error message.
Also, I cannot go in and edit a slide show and then save it - the "SAVE" option is grayed out and I am forced to use the "SAVE AS" and save it under a different name thus creating a duplicate.
I am VERY FRUSTRATED as I have spent much valuable time creating these slide shows. Can anyone help???

I didn't use it because of comments I've read by developers who've had problems with the Linked function. You don't need to select the Linked function to edit an imported slide in Captivate, though, do you? I thought unlinked slides were imported into the project library, and that you can edit them there. Have I misunderstood how this works?

Updating pse 9 catalog to pse 10: images missing

14 years of images in my pse 9 catalog
converted catalog to pse 10: last 4 years are missing.
Suggestions??

Moving this discussion to the Photoshop Elements forum.

When restoring backup catalog conversion fails.

when restoring backup catalog conversion fails.

HI,
Could you please try the steps mentioned on the link http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop-elements/kb/troubleshoot-catalog-backup-conversion-elemen ts.html
-Harshit yadav

Catalog Conversion Problem

I have been trying to convert a photo catalog from Photoshop Album 2 to Photoshop Elements 9. The PSA is on an XP system and the PSE 9 is on Windows 7. The backup and restore both go fine. The conversion begins and stops right at 27% every time. I get an error telling me to repiar with original software. I've tried just about everything I know and have seen on the blogs with no success. I removed any photo creations from the catalog and that did not help. The catalog contains a few thousand photos that are really well organized by my 80 year old mother and I'm petrified she will lose them. If anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated. Neither product is supported any longer by Adobe.

The catalog conversion process is quite buggy, and PSE 6 and later have serious bugs in handling drives. As a first step in troubleshooting, download and run the utility psedbtool:
http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/#_Downloading,_Installing,_and
Copy and paste the output here -- come to the Web to post your reply, rather than using email, since the Adobe forum software will truncate your reply.

Catalog Conversion PSE 6 to PSE 10 Fails but did it?

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for