Converting Catalogs From Photoshop Album (2.0) to Photoshop Elements 13

Question

My Photoshop Album currently holds some 23,000 photographs/jpgs from 2003 to date. Each is catalogued to provide a very high level of granularity to assist in identifying specific photographs and their subject content.
I have purchased Photoshop Elements to update the management of the collection. The Adobe information identifies it to be a suitable successor but indicates that there is likely to be some effort required to update the catalog. Using Catalog Manager I have attempted to Convert the old catalog which didn’t work because it “couldn’t be seen” in Elements. Further research of the Forum and other Adobe resources pointed to the Catalog Conversion Utility. Again this also failed to work.
I then reduced the number of photographs to about 4,500 (year 2014). I have noted by the way that this has had virtually no effect on the psa file size. As I gradually Deleted photos from the Catalog I have come across about 100 items which cannot be deleted and returns the following error message….
The ODBC data source reported the following error:
“[Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] Indicator variable required but not supplied on column number 10 (fDateTimeHigh)”
I have tried a number of ways to delete the photos including removing them from their folder; “Reconnecting the Missing File” with/without the same name in a different Folder; and generally getting myself very frustrated with my lack of knowledge. Googling/search for help and pointers hasn’t found the solution.
What or where can I find a way of deleting these errant files? (I have MS Access if this is a tool that might get me the solution.)
Note that one very old and small Catalog did convert and successfully integrated into Elements so it all works in principle. It seems to point to these problem jpgs.
Any help would be much appreciated.
FROM PHOTOSHOP ALBUM
System Details:
#### NOTE the following is incorrect (copied from “System Info” on Album Help. This is the original build OS; currently Windows 7 with latest updates. See further down for Photoshop Elements for System Info. ####
Adobe Photoshop Album 2.0.0.16271
Current Catalog:
Catalog Name: Main.psa
Catalog Location: C:\ProgramData\Adobe\Photoshop Album\Catalogs\
Catalog Size: 45MB
Catalog Cache Size: 536MB
System:
Operating System Name: XP
Operating System Version: 6.1 Service Pack 1
System Architecture: Intel CPU Family:6 Model:10 Stepping:7 with MMX, SSE Integer, SSE FP
Built-in Memory: 4GB
Free Memory: 4GB
Important Drivers / Plug-ins / Libraries:
Microsoft DirectX Version: 9.0
Apple QuickTime Version: 7.76
Adobe Image Viewer Version: Not installed
Adobe Acrobat Reader Version: 11.0
Adobe Acrobat Version: 10.1
Adobe Atmosphere Version: 3.0
FROM PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS
Elements Organizer 13.0.0.0
Core Version: 13.0 (20140831.m.62014)
Language Version: 13.0 (20140831.m.62014)
Current Catalog:
Catalog Name: Mum & Dad Document Scans
Catalog Location: C:\ProgramData\Adobe\Photoshop Album\Catalogs\New Catalogs\Mum & Dad Document Scans\
Catalog Size: 132KB
Catalog Cache Size: 31.8KB
System:
Operating System Name: Windows 7
Operating System Version: 6.1 Service Pack 1
System Architecture:
Built-in Memory: 8GB
Free Memory: 4.6GB
Important Drivers / Plug-ins / Libraries:
Microsoft DirectX Version: 9.0
Apple QuickTime Version: Not installed
Adobe Reader Version: Not installed
Adobe Acrobat Version: 10.1
CD and DVD drives:
D: (ATAPI iHAS624 BUS: 1 ID: 1 Firmware: B)

Answer 1

Yes. Thanks for your reply. Just shows my age doesn't it! I've really got to upgrade my system from Windows 3.1.
Still it lasted me for quite a few years over its various issues and wasn't a bad investment for me considering I think it was a magazine cover freebie, though I can't remember whether it was issued on 5" or 3" disks!!!
Interesting to note that conceptually the original design was quite good and together with the new face recognition technology which is as good if not better than Picasa the PSE13 Organiser does a good job. It's a pity Adobe doesn't promote more of this side of the product. I wasn't able to find the replacement to Album as it was starting to struggle as the photo count increased and I hadn't been able to find an obvious replacement. Still that's over now.
All I have to do now is to raise a query as to how to order/sort certain tags and it's a near perfect product for me. Can't find the answer in the Manual(s) or FAQs - or I'm not using the correct query key words.