Help with Organizer in PSE 10

In setting up PSE10, the organizer sort of took over. Yeah, I know how stupid this sounds but I've never used organizer until now. I'm an artist using photos extensively and upload all pix to 2 thumb drives - one master and one for backup. Never directly to a computer. Then, I bring only those files into my machine that I'm working on in present time and transfer them back to my thumb drives when completed.
When I tried to upload my current shoot, it didn't allow me to send files to the thumb and seems to have dumped them into the machine. Also, it some how found a lot more that it started cataloging. My question is - how can I get control over the beast? If I have to forget the organizer, so be it. I've done that for years anyway. I just can't figure out what I'm taking out or how to find its hiding place. Is it pulling pix files from one or more of my attached thumbs? It had been doing something with about 6 gigs of files before I found the stop button.
Thanks for your help,

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Please, please, please bring back Bridge to the Mac for PSE 9.

>Organizer wasn't designed to perform this task.
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In my classroom I use PSE to teach digital photography. I want to concentrate on PSE - but my students and I spend way too much time trying to find images hidden away in Organizer. They buy books on PSE - and half of the book is devoted to Organizer.
I advise my students to build a simple system of folders and download images into those folders - independent of a "photo" program. Then, they can back up the whole master folder to a second drive (time machine does it automatically on a Mac). My advice is to NOT give the download task to Organizer, or to iPhoto, or to any Program that came with the camera or the computer. 5 years from now all of them will have new computers and will be using a new photo program - I know for certain that, then, they will all be able to open images stored in simple folders. Ever try to help someone open images with PSE that were stored away by an old iPhoto program on an old Mac? Where are my images?
I am about to give up. I'll use PSE 9.0 for teaching - but I'll use the "open" function from PSE to go to the images. If I want to demonstrate how to apply Adobe Camera Raw to a JPG image, I have to do that anyway. I have not found a way to open a JPG image directly with ACR from organizer ----
Do I dare say it again ???? I hate Organizer. Please sell me a version of Bridge for PSE 9.0.
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Help with Organizer (Ver 11) after hard drive failure

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First of all, did you backup your catalog/media files via the catalog manager ? In that case the answer is to do a restore to the new custom location.
Since you are asking for help, I presume you have no backup available.
Now, the explanation for the problem. Network drives are considered 'offline' just like CD or DVDs when there are not active. On the other hand, each of those removable storage media are identified in the catalog database with a unique internal identifier which has the letter drive, device serial number, name and type of device. I am not competent about network drives, but I am sure that pluging another network drive will show different properties. Your drive will be considered offline.
Then, when you want to reconnect, the organizer does not consider the files are missing, it waits for you to plug in the original drive.
What solution ?
What could you do to enforce the Organizer to recognize the new drive as the old one ?
Let's suppose your files had not been on a network drive, but on an external USB drive. Then all your files would have been seen as 'missing' because the recorded paths of your media files would have been different for thedrive identifier, and reconnecting could have been a solution.
The main problem I see is that I am pretty sure that you can't tell the catalog manager how to change the identifier of the offline drive, and I can't see any easy workaround. If someone knows a way, I would be extremely interested! Would it be possible to fool the Organizer to identify the new network drive with the same parameters as the old one?
So, what I would do in your case would be to use an external sqlite database manager to look at the catalog.pse11db file and see how I could change directly the identification of the new drive.
I am pretty sure I could do that if the files had been on an external USB drive (not considered 'offline'). It's worth trying that for a network drive.
Tell me if you want to try such a solution. Otherwise, if you have 'written metadata to files', your only immediate chance is to start a new catalog and import from the new drive.

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Answers to following queries would help-
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Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 12:20:54 -0700
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: need help with Editor
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