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.

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