Elements 12 Catalog Backup Issues

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  • Elements 12 catalog backup hangs up.

    Elements 12 hangs up during catalog backup to internal drive at 83%.  Had already reconnected lost files, did a repair (nothing broken), and optimized.  Program is new.  Catalog converted from Elements 8.  First backup has this problem. Please help.

    Also sometimes project files (e.g. slideshows or other creations) can effect the back-up process.
    Try excluding them.
    Try making a full back-up rather than incremental back-up?

  • Elements 10 catalog backup problem

    I Am running Elements version 10.  Recently it lost my Catalog, which I run on an external hard drive.  I reloaded all of the images, around 10,000 but I am now unable to backup the catalog. The error message I get are "waldodata\imagelist_idx\fwdfile" and "breezedata\breeze-2256.xml". I have run the Repair routine in Catalog manager but the problem persists.  Any suggestions?
    latics Brian

    Breeze is used for the face recognition. For each file that has been examined for faces you will get a "breeze-[number].xml" file. What this means is there is something wrong with the face recognition for a specific image in your catalog. You can delete this file, which will remove the ability to check this file for faces.
    Waldodata is the information used for image similarity searches (similar color or shape search).
    You mention that your catalog was lost previously. Did you create a new catalog and place it in the same folder? The items mentioned above are support files for the catalog and if you lost the catalog, these files may have also been damaged at that time. If you created a new folder in the same place, it is probably using the same support files and this could be the source of the issue. You could try moving the items mentioned before trying the backup and see if that helps resolve things.

  • Catalog backup issue

    I have just recently been getting the following error when I attempt to back up my catalog to my external hard drive:  "Your system is low on disk space, and element organizer cannot perform this operation.  Try removing some files to free up disk space."
    I am using PSE 8 and have plenty of disk space free as noted:  c:--40 GB  d: 225GB i:--65.9 GB
    From system information I am showing the following as to my catalog and casche size:
    catalog size is 26.4 MB
    cache size is 203 MB
    I am stumped!  Any help on solving this problem would be appreciated.
    PS.  I did remove some backups to no avail.  I also tried to save the backup to my d: drive and got the same error.

    I FOUND THE PROBLEM!
    I had installed Premiere Elements a couple of weeks ago and started a few of "test" files.  Apparently, I had forgotten to delete one of several.  I just checked the Organizer for "untagged" items and found it.  The size of a video file is significant and put me over the limit.  Good to know, so when I start editing the video files, I likely will open a new catalog.

  • Catalog backup hangs at 8% calculating size (Photoshop elements 10)

    I am trying to back up my catalog (+30,000 pics and video's ) to an external drive (full back up). The program starts calculating the size and then hangs at 8%.
    The catalog was on another computer before and I moved it by making a backup (successfully) and restoring it on the new computer. After adding new files and tags I want to make a back up at the new location (unsuccesfully so far)
    I searched the Internet and came across several similar cases, also with earlier versions of elements and this problem still doesn't seem to be solved by Adobe.
    Of course I tried all steps mentioned in: http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop-elements/kb/troubleshoot-catalog-backup-conversion-elemen ts.html without any results. The only step I didn't try was step 4 (Turn off Sync Agent). I could not find it in the menu (Elements 10, Dutch version).
    I learned from several posts that the problem might be caused by damaged or not supported files.
    But how can I find out which?
    It feels a bit scary not to be able to back up and in the future I must be able to move my files to another computer again.
    If anybody could help me? Thanks!

    MarwanSati your install log appears to be free of errors.  I would recommend you post your inquiry about accessing this feature within the Photoshop Elements forum.

  • When doing catalog backup get message " your system is low on disk space, and elements organizer can

    When doing catalog backup get message " your system is low on disk space, and elements organizer cannot perform the operation.  If create a catalog with 20 pictures backup works OK.  backing up to a 1TB external drive.  Have 16705 pictures in catalog.  Total disk space for pictures is 192 MB.  Why am I getting message?

    kdrozzen a écrit:
    Total disk space for pictures is 192 MB. 
    Do you really mean MB (megabytes) or GB (gigabytes) ?
    Even if its GB, the free space may be enough, depending on your files size, especially with videos or raw files.
    When you start the backup process, it first shows you the total size of the catalog.

  • Elements 10 full backup crashes computer @ ~70%

    I am running Elements 10 on Windows 7.  I am trying to do a full backup of a catelog and it crashes my computer somewhere between 60 and 80% complete.  I left the computer overnight so it isn't just "taking a long time". 
    I have successfully done backups in the past using Elements 10 backup on this computer.
    Tried it to the local drive as well as a USB Drive.  Nothing else running at the time.  Done a catalog repair (no errors found) as well as an optimization.
    Elements 10 was the first version I had so shouldn't be a catalog conversion issue.
    Any ideas?
    Thanks.

    Did you tried on the different locations of the hard drive, sometimes in the specific location there is a limited perssimison issue.
    Also, check if you have any videos on your catalog, if so please try to move them into a different catalog and try only with images.
    Harshit

  • How to import Photoshop Elements 6 Catalogs to Elements 12

    One of my customer purchased Elements 12 and he need to import his Catalog files originally from Elements 6. He created the BUC file from PSE6 machine and Transfered it to the new PSE 12 system. Tried to open the backup  catalog.buc file  with PSE12 but it said, "Could not complete request because not the right kind of document". Please help me to resolve  this issue. Please give me exact steps to resolve the issue.
    Regards
    Jins

    jinsmn wrote:
    One of my customer purchased Elements 12 and he need to import his Catalog files originally from Elements 6. He created the BUC file from PSE6 machine and Transfered it to the new PSE 12 system. Tried to open the backup  catalog.buc file  with PSE12 but it said, "Could not complete request because not the right kind of document". Please help me to resolve  this issue. Please give me exact steps to resolve the issue.
    Regards
    Jins
    A catalog backup created by the organizer is a folder containing many files and sub-directories. It contains everything to restore both your 'catalog' and your media files.
    Those files are mainly renamed version of each media files (also of the xmp sidecar files which contain metadata changes), but two files are very important:
    - the catalog.buc is a renamed copy of the sqlite database : catalog.pse12db. You could rename it back to recover the database, but normally only the restore process uses it.
    - the backup.tly file contains everything necessary to re-create your folder tree and rename your media files to their original names. It's the important file the backup process searches for before starting the restore. Note that when you start the backup process and browse to the catalog backup location, you may not see the backup.tly file immediately, but only after a few seconds. As soon as that file is displayed in the dialog, your can start the restore.

  • Catalog backup on online service

    I have my all my data (photos) automatically backed up with an online service (Carbonite).  But they cannot backup the Photoshop Elements 12 catalog database file.  Is there any sort of work-around for this so that i will not loose the catalog content?
    ~Laurie K

    Theres always the standby of resetting your preferences file.  These go wacky and cause all sorts of issues sometimes
    http://members.lightroomqueen.com/Knowledgebase/Article/View/1148/198/how-do-i-delete-the- lightroom-preferences-file

  • Where is photoshop elements 11 catalog files stored in windows 7 for carbonite to back up?

    Where is photoshop elements 11 catalog files stored in windows 7 for carbonite to back up?  Also any other files besides the pictures that I should back up?

    [email protected] wrote:
    Where is photoshop elements 11 catalog files stored in windows 7 for carbonite to back up?  Also any other files besides the pictures that I should back up?
    Very important : your catalog does not contain your pictures. They are where you have imported them in your computer. If they are all under a master folder like 'My Pictures' or 'Pictures', you should set your backup software to backup those folders.
    The catalog itself is mainly a database keeping all the information about your pictures : location, keywords, ratings, albums...
    It's a folder containing the dababase and several other components. You find its location looking in the help section, system info.
    The integrated backup / restore process in Elements saves both your media files and the catalog.
    http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/photoshop-elements-faq.htm#_Backing_up_your

  • Catalog Backup Piece Manually

    We are currently running Oracle 10.2.0.4 and IBM TSM to do our backups, but we moved to a new machine and some of our older backups are sitting on tape in TSM and i need to manually catalog these pieces, I logged a SR with Oracle and they sent me the following response
    +"There is an undocumented command that allows catalog backuppiece from tape,+
    +catalog device type 'SBT_TAPE' backuppiece '<name>';+
    +You need first configure an sbt_tape device and then you can execute the catalog device type sbt_tape+
    +command.+
    +As and example the following will catalog a backuppiece on netbackup:+
    +CONFIGURE CHANNEL DEVICE TYPE 'SBT_TAPE'+
    +PARMS 'ENV=(NB_ORA_CLASS=sv2n2admoraclelogbkup, SBT_LIBRARY=/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/libobk.sl64';+
    +catalog device type 'SBT_TAPE' backuppiece 'orig-lij1qaa3_1_1';+
    +Note: This command works from 10g. The reason why it is not documented for tape is if the backupset contains more than one piece, then it will take long time to catalog backup piece. As long as there is one backuppiece per backupset, then the undocumented way should work without any issues."+
    This solution is for netbackup when i try the following in TSM
    RMAN> CONFIGURE CHANNEL DEVICE TYPE 'sbt_tape' parms
    'ENV=(TDPO_OPTFILE=/usr/tivoli/tsm/client/oracle/bin64/tdpo.opt)';
    RMAN> CATALOG DEVICE TYPE 'SBT_TAPE' BACKUPPIECE 'tiaprd_monthly_rman_7pl75al9_3_1';
    I get the following error
    allocated channel: ORA_SBT_TAPE_1
    channel ORA_SBT_TAPE_1: sid=1754 devtype=SBT_TAPE
    channel ORA_SBT_TAPE_1: Data Protection for Oracle: version 5.3.3.0
    allocated channel: ORA_SBT_TAPE_2
    channel ORA_SBT_TAPE_2: sid=1699 devtype=SBT_TAPE
    channel ORA_SBT_TAPE_2: Data Protection for Oracle: version 5.3.3.0
    allocated channel: ORA_SBT_TAPE_3
    channel ORA_SBT_TAPE_3: sid=1625 devtype=SBT_TAPE
    channel ORA_SBT_TAPE_3: Data Protection for Oracle: version 5.3.3.0
    allocated channel: ORA_SBT_TAPE_4
    channel ORA_SBT_TAPE_4: sid=1987 devtype=SBT_TAPE
    channel ORA_SBT_TAPE_4: Data Protection for Oracle: version 5.3.3.0
    ORA-19870: error reading backup piece tiaprd_monthly_rman_7pl75al9_3_1
    ORA-19507: failed to retrieve sequential file, handle="tiaprd_monthly_rman_7pl75al9_3_1", parms=""
    ORA-27029: skgfrtrv: sbtrestore returned error
    ORA-19511: Error received from media manager layer, error text:
    ANS1302E (RC2) No objects on server match query
    RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
    RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
    RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
    RMAN-03002: failure of catalog command at 05/05/2010 11:37:18
    RMAN-06209: List of failed objects
    RMAN-06211: ==========================
    RMAN-06212: Object Type Filename/Handle
    RMAN-06213: --------------- ---------------------------------------------------
    RMAN-06214: Backup Piece tiaprd_monthly_rman_7pl75al9_3_1
    RMAN> exit
    As you can see it fails but if i specify a wildcard "tiaprd_monthly_rman*" it works anybody please help
    Regards
    Grant

    Hi Grant,
    As you can see it fails but if i specify a wildcard "tiaprd_monthly_rman*" it works anybody please help.It isn´t an undocumented feature without a reason.
    Why not just use the wild card option anyway saves you a lot of time keying in unique tag names?
    Regards,
    Tycho

  • 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

  • Photoshop Elements Organizer 10 backup freezes at 49%.

    I have a large collection (~80,000) photos.  I have been trying (unsuccessfully) for a week to back up my collection.  Every time it freezes at 49%.  I did all the steps here: http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop-elements/kb/troubleshoot-catalog-backup-conversion-elemen ts.html  Still freezing. Then I did a complete disk scan/repair and tried all the steps again.  Still freezing.  I am running Windows 7 on a powerful machine.
    I want to move my collection to a new hard drive, so I really do need to use the bulit in backup.  What else can I try?  

    thor_x9 wrote:
    I was able to do the backup of just the photos, what can I try with the videos?
    That's very good news.
    Here are a few ideas :
    - from your original catalog, create a copy leaving only the video media types just like what you have done with photo files.
    - generally offending video file types are not with 'common' video formats, rather with cell phone formats.
    - There may be 'corrupted' files, but non recognized formats are probably more common
    -To have a look at the different formats (file extensions), look at the total number of video files and take a note of it.  Use the search by file name, 'files containing' and select a file extension visible in the browsing space (avi, mov...). Take a note of the number of files in each category.
    For each category, select all and hide the files. Continue with the next  category and so on until nothing is visible.
    You'll have all your files extensions with the number of files in each category.
    Now, un-hide all files and make a second copy of your video catalog.
    Try a backup of the video files after having deleted one of the categories. I would start with the less common video formats.
    Try this until the backup works ok : you'll know the offending format.
    A variant of this method would be to select the videos by camera type rather than by format type.
    Something you could do with the video catalog until you have found the offending format or corrupted file(s) : you could try move (from the organizer menu) all the video files somewhere on a new empty master folder as a standard (non PSE backup). You might get significant messages in the process. Be aware that this 'move' may be impossible to 'undo' in case of a problem. A safer variant would be to 'export' instead of 'move'.

  • Trouble restoring catalog backup

    Hello
    Last week my hard drive died on me so I had to replace it and reinstall my operating system (Windows 7) and my programs.  I had
    trouble finding my old Elements 6 install files so I decided to upgrade to Elements 9.  Before the HDD died I did do a catalog
    backup of my Elements 6 pictures to an external hard drive.  After upgrading to Elements 9 I went to restore my Elements 6 catalog
    only to find out I apparently had an original and an incremental catalog.  So after restoring the incremental part, Elements 9
    asked for the location of the original .tly file.  Unfortunately I couldn't locate it so the restore operation was aborted.  I have
    approximately 4500 pictures that I backed up on the external hard drive and as I had also stored them separate from the Elements
    catalog backup I can get them back into Elements 9.  However, that means recreating all my tags, categories, subcategories etc all
    over again for about 4500 pictures which is something I'd rather avoid.
    So does anybody out there have a way I can just restore the incremental catalog backup or use the files created to at least get my tags, categories etc back?
    Interestingly enough, there seems to be a lot of duplicate pictures with different file numbers in the Elements backup.  The pictures I have stored
    independently is the the 4500 number, while the pictures on the external hard drive in the Elements 6 catalog folder amounts to
    about 7300.  Why would that be?  In theory shouldn't they be very close to the same number?
    While on the topic of Elements catalog backup, is there really any reason to do an incremental backup?  I tried a couple of
    experimental Elements catalog backups:  the first was an original and the second I added a dozen pictures or so to the catalog and
    tried an incremental backup.  I chose the same folder for the incremental as I used for the original.  I was asked if I would like
    to overwrite and I responded yes.  I then found the .tly file in the next stage of the process and was then informed that I
    couldn't use the same folder for the incremental as the original.  Why on earth not?  Although I initially I thought Elements 6 was
    quite good, I have to admit this whole process has put me off the Elements program quite abit.  So if any of you know of a similar
    product that does essentially the same thing as Elements I would be very interested to hear about it.
    Many thanks in advance

    Hi,
    function(){return A.apply(null,[this].concat($A(arguments)))}
    The pictures I have stored independently is the the 4500 number, while the pictures on the external hard drive in the Elements 6 catalog folder amounts to
    about 7300.  Why would that be
    Some of the extra files should most probably be the breeze.xml files. These are created due to preprocessing of face data. I didn't quite get "duplicate pictures with different file numbers in the Elements backup" ?? . Do you mean they have numbers like -1 , -2 etc attached. If yes, then they exist mostly when you had ediited files present in Organizer. Since these are part of version sets in Organizer so theie count is not shown in Organizer but you see it in your backup.
    function(){return A.apply(null,[this].concat($A(arguments)))}
    So does anybody out there have a way I can just restore the incremental catalog backup or use the files created to at least get my tags, categories etc back?
    To restore the catlog, you will need to go to File>Restore catalog from ... , browse for the .tly file and hit restore.
    Incremental backup comes into picture when you had taken the backup of catalog before. So next time, you make changes to catalog and wish to take a backup , you have the option for an incremental backup which backs up only the changes done in Organizer since the original backup was taken. Incremental backup builds on the original backup and hence its not allowed to overwrite the original.
    Hope this helps. Thanks

  • Photoshop Elements 7 Catalogs Not Where They Should Be?

    My first post. Greetings all!
    Using PSE7 to 'catalog' my pictures. Have about 400 gig worth. I use drive c for my apps and data and all my pictures are on a different internal hd. Back them up every 3 mo or so onto external drives. But...........
    I've added some since last backup and my drive c took a dump!. Drive still works but can't boot up. So my pictures are intact on the other internal hd.
    I removed the bad hd (with elements & my catalogs (4)), put in a new drive c hd and reinstalled the os (Vista 64bit) and most of my apps including PSE7.
    I bought an external hd enclosure and put the bad hd into it in hopes of recovering my catalog data. After searching and reviewing numerous threads on forums, I gleemed that my catalog files should be in
    C:\Useres\me\Application Data\Adobe\Photoshop Elements\Catalogs\sub
    I've checked all the users (me, Default, Public) on the old but there are no catalogs (catalog.pse7db) or any other .pse7db files there.
    So I did an 'advanced search' on the bad hd for ".pse7db" and found one called catalog.pse7db in
    root\ProgramData\Adobe\Photoshop Elements\Catalogs\My Catalog
    but that file is the exact same file size as the one created this a.m. when I reinstalled PSE7 with an empty 'My Catalog'.
    So I renamed the new catalog file to.old and copied the catalog.pse7db from the old hd to the same place it was on the old hd to the new hd. Fired up Elements 7, selected 'Catalogs' for the File menu, but my old catalogs weren't there. So I put everything back to the default state (file-wise)
    My original catalogs were named:
    Dave & Debi's Collection
    RAW Files
    Business
    Clip Art
    Are all my original catalogs condensed into on master catalog file somewhere?
    Anybody have any ideas of where my old catalogs are on this bad HD?
    Thank you
    toots101

    Thanks for the reply. I did another advanced search including non-indexed, hidden, and system files on the sub-dir ProgramData on the bad drive and it only found the same catalog.pse7db as it did before.
    It is the same filesize as the new one with no files cataloged in it.
    Again are all four of my catalogs condensed into one catalog file by default?
    Any other help guys?
    toots101

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