Disappearing .tly files

I have PSE11 on my old Windows XP computer. I have installed it also on my new Windows7 computer and hoped it would be easy to transfer the photos by backup/restore via an external hard drive.
When I try to restore a backup on to the new computer, no tly file is found. When I then look at that backup folder in Windows explorer the .tly file is absent. I tried again with an older backup, checking first that a tly file had was present, by looking on the old computer with Windows explorer. Looking with explorer on the new computer - no .tly file. Looking again with explorer on the old computer, the .tly file is gone!
I am completely mistified. I dont't want to keep trying as each successive backup is older. If the .tly files are gone, I assume the backup becomes useless. Any ideas would be most welcome.

Hi,
The .tly is certainly the key factor when doing a restore and without you are stuck.
The .tly file will be the last file to be written when doing a backup.
If you are saying that when the backup on the XP PC has completed, you can see the .tly file on the external disk but not when you connect the drive to the Win 7 PC then I suspect that it wasn't ejected from the XP correctly and the last write was still in progress.
When you do the backup on the XP, try shutting the PC down before you disconnect the hard drive. That will force to to complete the write.
We can configure XP to work better but the above would be the easiest way of testing my theory.
Brian
PS - I've had another read of your problem and have a few more questions.
I assumed that you still had PSE on the XP system - is that correct?
How many backups do you have and where are they?
Is there plenty of free space on the external drive?
Brian

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Thank you Andaleeb. I appear to have an old backup of a year ago, and a more recent full back up plus an incremental backup.
Regrettably I don't really understand what is going on because firstly the restore does not complete its cycle so I cannot see what that backup file contains and secondly all I have read would suggest that the .tly file is the full backup and the catalog.buc file is the incremental backup. For the present, the catalog shows the photos for 2014 which makes me think I might have backed from the old back up file.
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I do a FULL back up of the Catalog to my C drive so that it gets copied onto my external back up drive with automatic back up software. But when I try to do an INCREMENTAL back up next time I cant find the .tly file for the previous back up path.

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