Exporting Categories and Tag Associations to New PSE Installations
Hi,
Traditionally I have always organised my photos in folders. Although there are definite limitations with this method I can move my photos to different PC's without loss of the organisation. Since I am a software developer I oftern rebuild my PC and try out new windows OS's.
Last night I played around with Catagorizing and Taging photos. Due to the number of photos I have it will be a huge task to get them all done. With that thought I do not want to put 'all that time in' if I cannot migrate the catagory and tag associations with the photos to a new installation of PSE.
I have been unable to see how this is done in the literature. Any help would be much appreciated.
Geordie
PSE versions 5 and earlier were pretty good about not corrupting their database files. I think PSE versions 6 and later are even better -- they are built using a very well-regarded database technology called SQLite that is used by many commercial products, include Apple's OS X. I've seen no reports of users losing their catalog information.
However, the PSE application does have bugs which in some circumstances writes incorrect information into the catalog database files (e.g. the wrong drive where your photos are stored). Also, since PSE 6 Adobe has provided very poor support for upgrading to new versions of PSE, and some people have had a lot of trouble upgrading and/or have lost information when they upgrade. Strictly speaking, this is not "database corruption" as engineers would use the term, though many users would probably called it "corruption".
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