Catalogs in Elements 6 ( spliting a large catalog )

Is there a way to split a large catalog into smaller catalogs, for example a catalog that contains images from several years split into catalogs for each year.
Creating a new catalog and importing your previously edited images means that you have to re-tag them all and stack them, they will then not be in version sets.
The new catalogs of images when split from the main catalog should retain the original tags and be identical to the main catalog. Images when viewed in the browser should show all edits and be in there version stacks.
Is this possible or am I expecting to much?

I misspoke in PSE 6, the command to optimize the catalog is File > Catalog > Optimize.
> You would think, based upon first principles of how a database works, that compacting/repairing it would make it run faster. Pretty much every database works this way.
I agree. But based solely on reports on these forums and at ElementsVillage.com, I get the impression that PSE 5 catalog bloat and fragmentation is much worse than PSE 6. There have been many postings where people have improved PSE 5 performance and dramatically shrunk their catalog file by recovering. But I dont recall any such reports for PSE 6. (This is all from memory, so I may be wildly wrong.)
I just optimized my PSE 6 catalog (12K photos) for the first time in at least 6 months. It shrunk from 41 MB to 40.5 MB.
By the way, modern databases have facilities for automatic or background compaction that try to minimize impact on applications. SQLite has such a mode, but I just checked and it looks like PSE 6 doesnt enable it.

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dj_paige wrote:
I would favor a second solution in your situation. Simply make a full backup before cleaning your catalog.
Not sure what happens in new versions of PSE, but making a full backup does not give you a copy of your catalog to work with, unless you also do a restore, which would of course include 2nd copies of all photos.
If the goal is to delete the original catalog once you are sure the copied catalog is ok, it is equivalent to having a backup before attempting a risky change in the catalog. If you are paranoid and don't trust a PSE backup, the only way to test it is to do a restore elsewhere. Not a bad idea (like having belt and suspenders...)
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I've watched the tutorial to convert my catalog but I don't have anything that remotely resembles the Organizer on my screen. When I go to File, there is no catalog. I upgraded to Elements 10.0 and also use Lightroom but chose to maintain Elements to do things that Lightroom can't like layers. I don't want all the organization that I've done on my old photos to disappear and don't want to import my Lightroom catalog into Elements. What am I doing wrong? Where would the Elements catalog file reside on my drive and what would the file extension be? I did a search on Catalog and came up empty. I'm using Mac with Lion OS.

LindaCLee wrote:
Thanks for trying. I was on a Chat with someone from the Adobe team and I got no help whatsoever. Basically his response was that I needed to reimport all my phoios. That means I lose all my keywording and editng. What's the point? Ok, I'm just ranting. Really, thanks for all efforts!
Did you see my remark about Mac PSE8 having Bridge and not Organizer ? Since nobody corrected me, I am confident that you can't find a catalog, which is only an Organizer feature. As far as I know, Bridge does not store your keywords, only thumbnails. So your keywords must have been saved within your media files themselves. That means that if you re-import those files in an Organizer catalog, you'll get them back. The advice to reimport is a sound one.
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Back-up doesn't progress. I have a large catalog...should I keep waiting or is something wrong?

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I have mine set to not push or automatically check my email, it only checks my email when I actually use the mail app. I also keep 3G turned off unless I'm using an app that needs to get online like safari, mail or Pandora radio. Just this week I wanted to see how long it would last with my normal usage to go from full to zero and it was in stand by most of the time but I played a few games, used safari and mail a few times (I use 3G at work but at home it's turned off b/c I use my wifi connection)used it as an ipod a couple times in the car, had a few phone calls and several text messages and I think I played around with the GPS and map utility on the drive home from work one day and in the end it lasted almost 48 hours. I was plugged into my laptop for about 5-10 minutes to sync so it was charging then but overall I was quite happy with the battery.
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Remember that Apple recommends that you fully cycle the battery once a month, fully charge it then let it drain to zero then fully charge it again.
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Thanks Geoff, that was very helpful!
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I have never met the situation described here, with the "catalog converted successfully" message.
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http://johnrellis.best.vwh.net/psedbtool/
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I suppose you still have version 10 available on your new computer ?
I have no experience with NAS drives, but I think it would be interesting to test the conversion after moving (from PSE10) the old catalog to the default location on your main drive : menu catalog manager, 'move' button.
The catalog folder will be moved to the default location (to be found by the help menu, system info).
Perhaps this will make it accessible to the PSE11 conversion option.
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Bumps a écrit:
Yes - I can run both versions on my PC. But I really would like to have all of my pictures in the same catalog.
You can't merge catalogs (even PSE13 ones) in any PSE version (only LR can do that). So, converting catalogs is not the solution to your problem.
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To be able to re-import the files indexed in PSE5, you may have to move them to a new master folder.
I am not sure what your problem with the conversion may be. It's quite possible that the resulting catalog.pse13db is ok and that the issue lies in the ability to open it in the PSE13 organizer.
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