Upgrading from Elements 10 to Elements 12, and new computer, how do I hook up old albums?

Our old computer stopped working, and i've had to move our photos from the old computer to the new one. The old computer had Elements 10, and the new has Elements 12. I have the old directory structure and catalog intact from a backup, and want to point Elements 12 at the old stuff in a way that it doesn't lose the album structure that my wife had done. And I need it to be on the secondary drive (where it was in the old computer as well) since the primary hard drive is an SSD, and is too small for all of our pictures.
Is there a way to do that? Like enter the folder name of the top of the old hierarchy somewhere in Elements 12? I'm afraid that if I just import the top level folder that the old catalog and album structure will just be ignored, and we'll end up with a big pile of unstructured pictures (like about 13,000 pictures *smile*).
Will importing the pictures the obvious way (when you open a new installed Elements, it asks to import pictures) ignore the album structure, or will it just work within the hierarchy that's been left by Elements 10?
The top level structure is D:\Adobe Element 10 Pictures, and under that is D:\Adobe Element 10 Pictures\My Catalog and D;\Adobe Element 10 Pictures\...\My Pictures.
Any help with this would be really appreciated.
Thanks.

Okay, found my own answer, finally. Ran across a posting including this line:
You can test that the catalog copy is ok by double clicking (or the Mac equivalent) on the file : catalog.pse10db. That should open the organizer with the catalog copy.
which gave me the idea to find that catalog.pse10db file. Found it, double clicked on it, and the organizer came up with all of our pictures, albums, etc. and has apparently decided that this is what we want *smile*.
So all's well that ends well.

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