Organizer 12 catalogs with NAS Drive

Does Elements/Organizer now work better with NAS drives? In Ver 11 you could not change out a drive in a network attached Storage (NAS) bay because Elements would not recognize the the new drive and could not use the catalog. It would not be able to reconnect the picture files with the catalog. It worked okay with a USB drive, but not with NAS drives. The fourms had many questions about this. Does Version 12 correct this problem?

I identified the problem as to why PSE 12 Organizer was freezing during backup procedures. The problem of freezing during backup calculation of the file size is caused by the existence of *.MOV file types. Both my Nikon camera and my Kodak digital cameras save video recordings in *.MOV file formats. This is likely a rare case, as only users who have Kodak or Nikon Cameras would be affected.
I had to select, filter, all files with *.MOV formats and delete them from my catalog. After the catalog was backed up successfully on my hard drive, same drive, different folder, I had to drag and drop the videos to get them back into the catalog. All tags and locations and people were lost. I could not search them and import from folder. So the catalog is backed up successfully. This is likely a rare case, as only users who have Kodak or Nikon Cameras would be affected.
Case Solved.
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Front Row problems with NAS drive (2 of them)

OK... having 2 problems with Front Row...
Background
First, I should say I'm new to Mac OS X, had early Macs, but went PC a long time ago.
I burned all of my music from CDs (I own) on my WinXP box, then copied them over to a NAS drive for easy access between computers.
The NAS is an Infrant ReadyNAS. The drive is shared on my network. The keychain app has the password information to the share. Though I should note, it doesn't matter if I remove the password from the share.
The ReadyNAS has a nice feature whereas it will act as an iTunes server, this is enabled. I do not have AFP or NFS enabled on the NAS since I regularly access the drive on WinXP machines. All access is SMB/CIFS.
I mounted the drive and created a link between the iTunes home folder and the network share. Thus, iTunes automatically mounts the share when started and seems to be comfortable that the files are accessible.
Everything works fine in iTunes.
Not so in Front Row.
Problem #1
Front Row will not read the "Shared Music." When I go this route in Front Row, it finds the NAS iTunes Music Server, but insists on being given a password to access the "Share." Of course, you can't enter a password.
Again, everything works just fine in iTunes. It shows the server fine under "Shared," and immediately brings up all music and plays it readily.
Just doesn't work in Front Row.
Problem #2
Front Row stopped auto-mounting the NAS share which is linked to the iTunes music folder. iTunes will mount it, if it is not mounted already when it first is asked to play a song. Up until this morning, Front Row would automount it too. This AM, after getting the Apple security update, Front Row would not automount the share. Note, if I automount the share manually, or go to iTunes (which properly automounts) before launching Front Row everything works fine from Front Row.
It took me a second to figure this out, as Front Row's terribly missleading error message is, you are not authorized to play this song - authorize it (well, that is the point of the wordy message). Of course, this confused me, since these are not iTunes store songs and of course, this worked fine yesterday.
Anyway, what is really happening, (I surmise) is it is not automounting the share and cannot read the song, and seemingly defaulted to the assumption it is a DRM problem.
I have to say, this is one out of the old Microsoft handbook. Missleading error messages and broken functionality from (it would seem) rushed out security updates.
I'm gonna have to tip my hat... some of those Microsoft developers that made the move from Redmond to Cupertino brought their game with them!
LOL
Anyway... anyone that can offer a hand would make my wife very happy. She likes Front Row... and now she has to start iTunes to make Front Row work. Sheesh.
Thanks in advance for the help.
iMac Mac OS X (10.4.8) Nah

Hi,
same thing here: I have 3 LCD-screens (30,26,20 Apple Displays) on two graphic-cards (ATI X1900XT, NVDIA7300GT). Front Row does not display any pictures or movies. Menus work like they should, Music also plays fine, but images are not shown. It only shows a white screen on the main screen (30") and the other two are dimmed to black. If i type ESC i get back to the menus...
Any hint? Regards - Peter

Getting Time Machine to work with NAS Drives

Connect the drive and format it HFS+
for this example I will name it backup
Set it up as the Time Machine drive once formatted.
Go into system preferences and turn off Time Machine.
Go into FrontView and create a share, for this example I will name it backups, set a quota you want to use I did double my Mac's hard drive
Open terminal
type the following commands
cd /
cd Volumes
ls -a -l (make note of .00 filename)
cp ./backup/.00filename ./backups/.00filename
cp ./backup/.com.apple.timemachine.supported ./backups/.com.apple.timemachine.supported
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connect to ReadyNAS through finder afp://IPADDRESS
choose backup volume to connect to
Relaunch TimeMachine...
BAM!
From a link on xlr8yourmac.com
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Eric S wrote:
Can anyone comment on whether this works reliably? I mean, it looks like Apple doesn't officially support it (given the complexity of the setup).
Eric
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First of all I apologise if this is in the wrong section of the comminity!
I need to purchase a NAS drive that is compatible with my MBP 2011 and a windows laptop. I have read in other threads that Lion does not communicate with NAS drives as some protocol or other has been scrapped in Lion. Can anyone recommend a good NAS drive that will allow movement of files and Time Machine back up if possible.
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Mavericks and NAS drives

Has anyone had any problems with NAS drives and Lion or Mavericks?
Seems that I can only see my drive intermittently - and if I get up and the computer goes to sleep, not ONLY does the computer try to shut down or log me out, I can no longer see my drive.
Is this due to the switch from AFP to SMB2?
Any help or suggestions would be awesome because as of now, Mavericks is making is practically impossible to work.

I've tried all the fixes to mount my Buffalo Terrastation, including the cifs://...all to no avail....I have tried smbup..which looks like it doesn't load anymore in mavs. I had posted this in the lion board to help others with lion and older NAS's
Somewhere out in the ether I found the instructions and since I can't find them again..I thought I'd post it...There are 2 scripts I use to set the tstationup or reset the system...I entered the following in applescript editor
tell application "Terminal" to activate
do shell script "sudo sysctl -w net.smb.fs.kern_deprecatePreXPServers=0" withadministrator privileges
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and saved it as an app...like tstation smb connect
and the following script to reset..and saved as an app...
tell application "Terminal" to activate
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end
Saved the apps in applications and run them when necessary..
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Can I Put My Organizer Catalog On A Net Work Drive An Share It With Two Computers?

PhotoShop Elements 11, Running Under Windows 7 Professional
The second system would be Running Windows 8.1
It would be nice if I could share the Organizer Catalog between the two systems.
If that does not work, I can back the Catalog up on the Network Drive from the primary system (Running Windows 7) and then download it to the second system (Running Windows 8) since production would take place on the Windows 7 system. It would just be nice to always have both systems "in sync".

I guess that is not a surprise. Multiple systems accessing a database at the same time is difficult to manage.
I will choose to make frequent back-up on the network drive and then load those backups on the secondary computer. This restricts the secondary computer from doing any work that needs to be retained but, that is OK.
Thanks for your answer.

Photoshop Elements 9 Organizer corrupts Catalog with program crash in offset 000253da

I have just installed Photoshop Elements 9 on a Windows PC (no previous version was installed) but when I try and load photos into the organizer either from a camera or photos already on hard disk I get the following error shortly after Organizer has generated the thumbnails :
Elements 9 Organizer has encountered a problem and needs to close
Error signature
AppName photosopelementsorganizer.exe AppVer 9.0.0.0 ModName tbb.ddll
ModVer 2.2.2009.1011 Offset 000253da
Following this error the program closes and the catalog is left in a corrupt state so that when Organizer is restarted it crashes again with the same error. The only way to get Organizer to start cleanly is by creating a new catalog in the Catalog Manager window by pressing [Ctrl] [Alt] and [Shift] in the Welcome Window when starting Organizer. Repairing the catalog does not resolve the corruption.
I have tried un-installing Photoshop Elements, then re-installing, downloading the latest updates from Adobe and then loading in just one photo from either my camera (Pentax k-x) or a file on the Hard Disk, but still get the same catalog corruption.
Can anyone help? The Organizer is unusable with this fault. My Windows XP operating system is at the latest fix level and all other software on this machine is extremely robust.
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Elements Organizer 9.0.0.0
Core Version: 9.0 (20100905.m.9093)
Language Version: 9.0 (20100905.m.9093)
Current Catalog:
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Catalog Size: 129KB
Catalog Cache Size: 25KB
System:
Operating System Name: XP
Operating System Version: 5.1 Service Pack 3
System Architecture: AMD CPU Family:6 Model:10 Stepping:0 with MMX, SSE Integer, SSE FP
Built-in Memory: 959.5MB
Free Memory: 230MB
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Microsoft DirectX Version: 9.0
Apple QuickTime Version: 7.13
Adobe Reader Version: 9.3
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Try the solution here:
http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/photoshop_elements_9_cd_program_purc hased#reply_5626978

Moving catalog and photos with external drive, Elements can't see catalog database

Tried searching, but couldn't find my situation.
I have an old computer with a second hard drive (1.5 TB). I pulled it from my old computer and put it in the new computer.
I also copied my "My Catalog" folder which contains the catalog database file (catalog with a type "PSE8DB").
Got the second drive installed fine in my new computer.
Reinstalled Elements 8.
But the File / Catalog dialog box can't seen the existing catalog database. I can browse to the folder, but it doesn't show up.
Old computer was Windows XP. New computer is Windows 7.
Both are using Photoshop Elements 8.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
John

solodarwest wrote:
Tried searching, but couldn't find my situation.
I have an old computer with a second hard drive (1.5 TB). I pulled it from my old computer and put it in the new computer.
I also copied my "My Catalog" folder which contains the catalog database file (catalog with a type "PSE8DB").
Got the second drive installed fine in my new computer.
Reinstalled Elements 8.
But the File / Catalog dialog box can't seen the existing catalog database. I can browse to the folder, but it doesn't show up.
Old computer was Windows XP. New computer is Windows 7.
Both are using Photoshop Elements 8.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
John
John,
1 - Where are your photo files located ? What is the drive letter assignment of this second drive ?
My suspicion is that the photos (and perhaps also video files) reside on that second hard drive which you physically moved and installed in the new computer.
2 - Where is the PSE Catalog file (both on the old XP system and on the new W 7 system) ? Is that folder containing the PSE Catalog on the C drive or on that second hard drive which is now installed on the new W 7 system ?
3 - FYI - I agree with the DJ Paige recommendation to "In Windows, double-click on the *.pse8db file" as a means of starting the Organizer with the Catalog that you previously had under XP . This generally works on most versions of PSE although I did have an experience with PSE 8 where it did not work initially.
4 - FYI - If your photo files were stored under My Pictures under XP, then I think that the other suggestions about PSE not being able to find photosand needing to do a PSE Backup are relevant -
"You catalog will be holding the absolute location of the files in the catalog. These will no longer be valid when porting to Win7 from XP"
However, if your photo files are stored on that second hard drive, I am skeptical about that conclusion.
5 - FYI - I have seen a report of successfully moving a physical second internal drive from old XP PC to new Windows 7 PC with PSE 10. I think that you should be able to do the same with PSE 8.

Motherboard fried -- replaced with new computer -- now need to salvage catalogs from old drives

Rather than replace the fried motherboard on an old box running Windows XP, I bought a new box running 64-bit Windows 8.1. I have my two 11-year-old internal sata drives attached to the new box with USB enclosures, plus my old 300 MB usb drive. I have fresh backups of 'My Catalog', 'My Catalog 2', and all the 12,000 photos. I also appear to still have download rights to my original copy of Adobe Elements 9 (thank you for that, Adobe).
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I was indeed too pessimistic. I purchased a copy of Elements 13; installed it; went into Manage Catalogs and pointed it at My Catalog; and then took the options to convert, repair, and optimize. Lo and behold, within seconds it had found all my folders and albums and everything was there as it should be.

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Sharing a NAS drive between 2 PCs running itunes with different accounts....

I have 2 Windows 7 PC's with different iTunes accounts, both accessing the same NAS drive for their save location.
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How do I use Time Machine with a NAS drive?

I was hoping to use a USB drive with my new Netgear router to do Time Machine backups, but I have since learned that the router only supports Windows or FAT formatted drives.
Will a NAS drive work with Time Machine? If so, can someone give me a crash course on how to set one up and use it?
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...JER
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Anyone tried to use TC with A Nas Drive attached in a windows / Osx enviroment?

Hello There
I'm interesting to use TC in a windows/osx enviroment where i already have a network ..
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I just bought a couple of macs and one TC 3TB..
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I would have not bought the TC as many NAS have time machine extensions you could have just kept using the existing NAS. Anyway..
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