How can I open Elements 7 Downloader on an External Hard Drive?

Hi there,
Last night I moved perhaps a thousand photos from "My Pictures" on my computer's hard drive to an external hard drive--first time I have done this ever. I have a Toshiba Satellite that is rapidly running out of space. I have Vista Home Premium, and the new hard drive is a 320 GB FreeAgent Go (by Seagate).
When I attach the handsome little red device to my computer via USB port the Adobe Photoshop Downloader appears with 24 folders (3 across, 8 down) but the interface (I think that's the right term) doesn't seem "alive", i.e., I click here-and-there and nothing happens at all.
It seemed to easy last night that I thought something was amiss--now I see I probably botched the operation--alas, something that is the norm for me.
Hope this makes sense, and thank you.
Bill Powers

billp545 wrote:
Hi there,
Last night I moved perhaps a thousand photos from "My Pictures" on my computer's hard drive to an external hard drive--first time I have done this ever. I have a Toshiba Satellite that is rapidly running out of space. I have Vista Home Premium, and the new hard drive is a 320 GB FreeAgent Go (by Seagate).
When I attach the handsome little red device to my computer via USB port the Adobe Photoshop Downloader appears with 24 folders (3 across, 8 down) but the interface (I think that's the right term) doesn't seem "alive", i.e., I click here-and-there and nothing happens at all.
It seemed to easy last night that I thought something was amiss--now I see I probably botched the operation--alas, something that is the norm for me.
Hope this makes sense, and thank you.
Bill Powers
Bill,
1-- what model of Toshiba laptop do you have?
I have a Toshiba Satellite A305-S6872 with a 15.4 "screen and its native or maximum resolution is 1280 x 800 pixels. I can barely see some of the Downloader dialogs on that screen, so I think it is important that we learn more about your laptop.
2 -- you say that you moved photos from My Pictures to the external hard drive
Had you imported these photos to the PSE 7 Organizer BEFORE you moved them to the external drive ?
In other words, when you were using the PSE 7 Organizer BEFORE you moved those photo files to the external drive, did you see thumbnails for these photos in the Organizer? If yes, don't use the Downloader to import them now. There needs to be a different discussion about what you should do.
Paige,
I think that you and I are actually having some similar thoughts about this problem. I returned to the original post here because I thought that using a method of comparing his laptop to mine of the same brand might be helpful. Of course, it would not be necessary to be the same brand, so this is primarily a method of problem analysis.
I keep wondering why the PSE 7 Downloader is appearing when connecting the Seagate external hard drive? On my Toshiba the Seagate external GO drives are being treated as a disk drive and not as a flash drive or camera card reader (where I would expect that the Downloader might launch).
IF these photos were previously imported to the PSE 7 Organizer, then continuing with the Downloader is NOT the correct action. I realize that you understand this. I mention it now so that we do not loose sight of that possibility while we are discussing screen resolution.
Returning back to the topic of screens, I am thinking about the other threads which say that some of the Downloader screens do not fit within the 768 height which is stated as the PSE minimum. So far all the PSE 7 Downloader screens I have experienced fit within my 800 pixel height but some have been so close that I can observe the probability that they don't fit 768.

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