Converting Elements 3 catalog to Elements 10

I am installing Elements 10 on a new computer and have a backup of my elements 3 catalog on an external hard drive. How do I go about converting the elements 3 catalog to elements 10 from the elements 3 backup file?
Thanks very much...Bev Crone.

This Adobe page has information regarding the changes when catalogs are converted `from earlier versions:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/859/cpsid_85996.html
Ken

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Yes - I can run both versions on my PC. But I really would like to have all of my pictures in the same catalog.
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...But we can also wait and see report from other users.
Unfortunately, there is no doubt that the conversion of PSE12 catalogs has been omitted. It's not the first time : I also had to wait for LR4 to be able to convert PSE11 files. We may hope that Adobe will acknowledge the fact, and possibly solve the problem for future versions of PSE.
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