Catalog refuses to backup? Elements 9

Every time I try to backup the catalog to my hard drive I get a message "Error encountered while writing files" no further explanation. I do not have this problem with my other programs. I have a Dell Dimension 4600, upgraded to Windows 7. 160gb hard drive, 2.5gb memory and 2.66GHz Intel CPU.

Thanks, but that didn't seem to do the trick. Time Machine seems to be getting stuck on .wav files. The problem is, I have countless wav files on my computer that are part of Logic, Ableton Live, sample libaries, viynl conversions, and so on and so forth. They must be backed up. I find the solution to exclude these files from the backup extremely pointless consdiering the fact that I need them. Any other suggestions? Anyone else have any tricks? I hope this is fixed eventually; I don't want to upgrade to Lion for various reasons nor do I want to upgrage for something this simple and something that should've been fixed and polished before the OS was released.

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As long as there is nothing currently wrong with your catalog and nothing interferes with the conversion process, you should have a save catalog conversion.
Besides, when the conversion takes place, a copy of your catalog is created. So even if the conversion fails for some reason, you'll still have your original catalog working in PSE5.
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Catalog addiional rman backup files

Im trying to catalog addiional rman backup files, and getting this error:
RMAN-07518: Reason: Foreign database file DBID: 2319619701 Database Name: SASP
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Enterprise Manager was reconfigure with create repos due to same problems....
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Previous activities: Database dictionary was
recreated due to charset problems while exporting the
database...
Enterprise Manager was reconfigure with create repos
due to same problems....I have not seen the full error messages that follows this one (post it if possible). However, if you recreated the database, then your database will now have a new DBID after it was recreated. You can see the current DBID of the database to see if it matches the one above.
If it is a standby database and it is logical standby, then it will also have a different DBID.
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There is another thread on this which for some reason is marked as resolved, so I thought I'd post a new thread. Suddenly after months of no complaints I get the following error:
*+Time Machine Error+*
+A volume you are backing up is case-sensitive, but the backup volume is not.+
+To Select a different backup volume, or to choose not to back up the case-sensitive volume, open the System Preferences and choose Time Machine.+
The only thing I've changed is that yesterday I ran Software Update. Unfortunately I can't remember exactly what was updated, but I suspect Quicktime was one of them since I needed to reboot. So now I'm at 7.4.5 in Quicktime.
Time Machine refuses to backup my drives now complaining about the case sensitive filesystem. The thing is, *NONE of my drives are case sensitive.* Looking at the Change Drive window in Time Machine, I see that most of the drives on my system say "reforat required" if I am to use them with Time Machine. All drives on my system are *Mac OS Extended (Journaled)*. The fact that some drives are not requiring a reformat and some are, even though they all are the same format is quite puzzling.
I took a spare drive and allowed Time Machine to reformat it for it's use. It has now reformatted the drive as Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Case-Sensitive).
Can anyone shed any light as to why TM would suddenly require my backup drive to be case sensitive when none of my drives are?
This make no sense...
-K

Ok - Running Disk Utility Verify on both the system disk and the TM disk seems to have magically stopped this error. Note that Disk Utility didn't actually find or fix any problems with either disk. The problem just went away....
It doesn't make any sense.
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Current catalog is a backup catalog, is this a problem??

Not sure how this happened but the catalog that I am currently downloading pictures to is a backup catalog.
I think that I opened a back up catalog and then the next time I opened lightroom it opened the backup and did
not realize I was in a backup catalog and continued to download pictures. By the way, I have lightroom 3.4.1.
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everything is there, but my catalog location is users/butler/pictures/lightroom/backup/2011-05-21 1935.
If I open my main lightroom catalog it is missing tons of pictures but the backup file has everything.
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Thanks, debbutler

Yes, you have a potential problem when your working catalog is also the backup catalog. The problem is that now you don't have a backup.
You have to make sure that the locations for the working catalog and the backup catalog are NOT identical.
The location of your working catalog is displayed in > Edit >Catalog Settings >General Tab.
The location of your backup catalog is displayed in the backup dialog that comes up when you close LR ; to make sure that the backup dialog appears select <Every Time LR Exits> in >Catalog Settings >General Tab.
I've had this problem and solved it as follows:
In your backup catalog select the location where your working catalog should be and make the backup. After this you have 2 identical catalogs in 2 different locations. In your OS (with LR still closed) navigate to the just created working catalog and double-click it. LR opens then with this catalog.
Don't forget that next time LR closes and the backup dialog comes up you have to change the backup location to where the backup should be.
Alternate procedure: In the Library Module (Grid Mode) >Catalog Panel select <All Photographs> or whatever the name of your main catalog is.
Select >File >Export as Catalog and select the location where your main catalog should be.
To prevent the problem from happening it is worthwile to ckeck occasionally in >Catalog Settings >General Tab that the working catalog is where it should be; and also to ckeck the location of the backup in the backup catalog.
WW

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I'm in a similar situation including movies I've purchased from iTunes...
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I appreciate that I have an old product (Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0), but it has worked perfectly for several years on an IBM R50e laptop running Windows XP SP3.
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My catalog won't backup in Elemnents 11

The backup sequence freezes up when calculating the stotal media size of the file. It freezes up at 32%. This also happened with Elements 10.

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