Elements 10 missing albums and keyword tags

I just upgraded to elements 10 and now have no albums or tags in the new organizer. Any idea why or how to get them?

Did you forget to convert your previous catalog when you installed the new software? You can do it manually.
File à Catalog à Convert
Highlight your earlier catalog and click the convert button.

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Hiya
Using Photoshop Elem’7- I have had a major problem with my pc and I have gone back to factory settings, I have reloaded the Photoshop software – I can see all my photo’s back on my hard drive and also on Photoshop but I cannot retrieve my albums and keyword tags
Can anybody help me on this topic?

Hi
This is actually the Photoshop forum, and you would do better in the Elements forum.
http://forums.adobe.com/community/photoshop_elements
But it seems that Elements creates a catalog file where I suspect it keeps the info you are looking for.
This is one link, but you could try Google with Adobe Photoshop Elements catalog location, ot just go ask in the other forum.
http://don26812.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/photoshop-elements-catalog-file-the-critical-link /

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The album and keyword tag section to the right hand side of the organizer has disappeared. Don't see how to restore it with any of the settigs from the tool bar.

Menu /Window/show task panel
or
click just in the middle of the right vertical bar at the edge of the display.

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I use my iPad to play performance tracks for church and a local gospel group out of our church, Won4Christ.
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I started up iPhoto today and none of my pictures are there! All of the folders are gone, none of the pictures are under Events or Last Import. In my hard drive the pics come up under All Images but after a few seconds the section is empty and it shows that there are 0 items instead of the 6122 items that should be there. I tried importing these pictures back into iPhoto, however after I started to select pictures to import it went back to saying I had no photos. I don't know what is going on! This has never ever happened.

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Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Rebuild iPhoto Library Database from automatic backup.
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Many threads about that error message:
http://forums.adobe.com/community/search.jspa?peopleEnabled=true&userID=&spotlight=false&c ontainerType=14&container=3347&rankBy=date&q=Error+Applying+Keyword+Tag%28s%29
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I created a library without importing the images.
This is should not have any impact on this issue. However: ou need to be aware of a number of potential pitfalls using this system.
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Tripgal wrote:
In Photoshop 11, when I create a new Album name or category, do I need to choose "Save Albums to File"?
No, the wording is misleading. That command only saves the names and properties of your album panel, not the contents, in a text file. You can restore that structure in another album.
Do I need to do something similar with Keyword tags "Save keyword tags to file"? If I don't do this, would I lose my album names and keyword tags when I upgrade to a new Photoshop program? What about my photo captions? How are those saved? Do I need to select all the photos in the album before I do this?
You don't need to if you have a PSE backup, but it may be a good idea, especially if you want to share your tags and ratings with another software (slideshow editor for instance). It's an additional safety measure.
There are three categories of data:
- what is stored automatically in the metadata section of the files (or in .xmp sidecar files) : mostly captions and file 'date original'
- what is stored manually via the 'write metadata to file' command : mainly tags, categories, ratings, notes, captions...
- what can't be stored because it's not information pertaining to individual files : albums, stacks, version sets. That's why you should prefer to use tags instead of albums if you don't need a custom sort order.
As you have seen, you also can save your album structure, and, more important, your tags and categories in text files to copy them in new blank catalogs.

Why aren't album keyword tags written to metadata using Write Keyword Tag... command

When I display file properties within organizer it shows albums as keyword tags but after using the "Write Keyword Tag and Properties Info to File" command, the album keywords do not make it to the metadata.
Why is this? I would really like for it to work.
I am using PSE version 8. Does it change in version 9?
Thank you!

Ken,
Thanks for your reply.
I think the way that Adobe has implemented albums is a little more like keywords than a saved search. The reason I say this is because of the following:
1. They appear with the keyword tags to the bottom right of the photo in the organizer.
2. When you right-click on a photo and choose "Show Properties", they are listed with the other keywords.
3. If you try to create a keyword with the same name as an album (to get the album name written to the metadata), PSE warns you that you already have a keyword with the same name.
I see what you are saying but I think the Adobe should either make a clear distinction between albums and keywords or at least give you an option to write the album keywords to the metadata if you choose.
Do you know how to submit product enhancement requests?
Thanks again for your time.
Patrick

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Bought new imac and upgraded to iLife 08. Upgraded my photo library of some 4000 photos all looked fine at first.
Noticed that in the middle of the photo library are about 20 or so missing photos they display as dashed grey squares. If you scroll so you have these thumbnails on the screen or open an event with these photos in you get the wheel of death and you either have to force quit iphoto or wait for ever to quit iphoto.
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It means that your main Library has a damaged database file.
Option 1
Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Rebuild iPhoto Library Database from automatic backup.
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TD

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