Inexplicable PSE 7 Behavior

I have a catalog with about 25,000 images. Starting last night, whenever I
Get Photos and Videos > From Files and Folders…
PSE 7 adds them to the catalog per usual, but when I click on any thumbnail to look at individual images it tells me they're missing and attempts to reconnect. Reconnect never finds the file. If I manually browse to the "missing" image, PSE refuses to load it, saying it is already in the catalog. Well, it's not -- these images have never been loaded before. Also, PSE 7 reports the file's original location as being on another drive (on which there are no photos and no catalogs).
Effectively, I cannot add any files to this catalog. I'm reluctant to create another catalog because that's going to complicate my use of photos, not to mention the fact that the current problem indicates something's wrong, and I don't want to do much of anything with the photo collection until it's solved.
This is complicated by the following:
1. I recently upgraded to Windows 7 from Vista (which resulted in a reassignment of drive letters and required a total reconnect of the catalogs at the time, which was successful)
2. I moved my catalogs (using the move catalog function within PSE 7) to a preferred drive
3. I repaired the catlog in question even though it did not report any errors.
I need a magic fix that will allow me to continue to add photos to my existing (and heavily keyworded) catalog. Help! TIA.

Thanks for your help! Here's what I got:
psedbtool version 1.08
Opening catalog F:\Catalogs\Main\Main 7\catalog.pse7db
Photoshop Elements version:      7
Total files               :  35154
Total files missing       :      7
Total files offline       :      0
Total files wrong volume  :      0
****** Volumes with warnings: 4
PSE Volume Table
Path used by PSE        : C:
Type                    : builtin_drive
Status                  : online
Total files             : 0
Total files missing     : 0
Total files wrong volume: 0
Description             : OS
Serial                  : C299-402B
Drive_path_if_builtin   : C:
Id                      : 358176
***** WARNING *****     : Wrong serial number in catalog
Path used by PSE        : F:
Type                    : builtin_drive
Status                  : online
Total files             : 35144
Total files missing     : 0
Total files wrong volume: 0
Description             : Media 2
Serial                  : B61B-2176
Drive_path_if_builtin   : H:
Id                      : 2600
***** WARNING *****     : Wrong drive letter in catalog
Path used by PSE        : D:
Type                    : builtin_drive
Status                  : online
Total files             : 9
Total files missing     : 6
Total files wrong volume: 0
Description             : Media 1
Serial                  : 5A7B-C49F
Drive_path_if_builtin   : F:
Id                      : 649651
***** WARNING *****     : Wrong drive letter in catalog
Path used by PSE        : I:
Type                    : builtin_drive
Status                  : online
Total files             : 1
Total files missing     : 1
Total files wrong volume: 0
Description             : RICHARD
Serial                  : BDAC-1CF2
Drive_path_if_builtin   : I:
Id                      : 649083
***** WARNING *****     : Wrong serial number in catalog
Path used by PSE        : F:\Catalogs\Main\Main 7
Type                    : database_relative_drive
Status                  : online
Total files             : 0
Total files missing     : 0
Total files wrong volume: 0
Description             : database relative
Serial                  : amoc:database_relative_volume
Drive_path_if_builtin   :
Id                      : 2
Path used by PSE        :
Type                    : no_drive
Status                  :
Total files             : 0
Total files missing     : 0
Total files wrong volume: 0
Description             :
Serial                  : no drive
Drive_path_if_builtin   :
Id                      : 649013
Windows Drives
Drive  Type             Serial     Path
C:     builtin_drive    4A3D-1EA8 
D:     builtin_drive    5A7B-C49F 
E:     builtin_drive    5A97-04F7 
F:     builtin_drive    B61B-2176 
G:     readonly_drive   0000-0000 
H:     readonly_drive   0000-FD20 
I:     builtin_drive    284A-3AE4 
J:     builtin_drive    DC1D-8CC0 
K:     builtin_drive    0436-132E 
L:     readonly_drive   0000-0000

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    Apply the existing tag “San Francisco, CA” will create two new tags, “San Francisco” and “CA”.
    [U] After applying a tag, the Keyword Tags text box loses keyboard focus and you need to mouse-click in the box again to enter another tag.
    Forcing the use of the mouse defeats the purpose of the Keyword Tags text box, which is to make tagging much faster.
    [U] The Find > Find People For Tagging command locks up the Organizer for about 30 seconds after you click Done (even if you haven’t made any changes), when using larger catalogs.
    On a catalog with 10,000 thumbnails showing, the cursor spins for 30 seconds after clicking done.  But you can work around this by doing a tag search or setting a date range to have only a small number of thumbnails showing before you invoke the command.
    [U] In the Find > Find People For Tagging command, when you select Add Missing Person, you usually can’t resize the selection box by grabbing the lower-right or lower-center handles, which are the handles that most right-handed people are likely to use.
    If you move the mouse very quickly so that it is over the photo before the selection box appears, you can usually resize the box with those handles.  But you have to be very quick.
    [U] The Find > Find People For Tagging command doesn’t do auto-complete on pre-existing People tags, making it very hard to use with existing catalogs.
    I have over two hundred People tags in my catalog.  Because the command doesn’t auto-complete on pre-exisiting People tags and will silently create new tags, and because I don’t remember exact spellings (that’s the point of auto-complete!), I found myself creating duplicate tags (e.g. “John Ellis” instead of “John R. Ellis”, “Bob Smith” instead of “Robert Smith”).  It’s painful to clean up such a mess.
    [U] Full Screen view (F11) is much slower than in PSE 7 on larger catalogs.
    With a 14,000-file catalog and all thumbnails visible, PSE 7 takes 6 seconds to invoke F11, while PSE 8 takes 13 seconds.   With just 20 thumbnails visible (e.g. when working on the most recent import batch), PSE 7 takes 1 second, while PSE 8 takes 7 seconds. This makes selecting the good and weeding out the bad significantly slower.
    [U] PSE doesn’t remember the settings if you toggle the Full-Screen Quick Edit Panel and Quick Organize Panel to disappear completely.
    On 4:3 displays, it’s desirable to hide the panels completely in full-screen view, so you see the entire image without the panels overlapping them (that’s the point of full-screen view, no?).  But PSE forgets the toggle settings, even in the same session.
    [U] The keyword tagging in the Quick Organize Panel doesn’t auto-complete tags you type, making it useless with more than a dozen or so tags.
    It’s worse than useless, since it will silently create a new tag if you mistype the name of an existing one.  And the “tag cloud” is a silly toy that doesn’t help with hundreds of tags.
    File Management and Tagging
    Major Problems
    [F] After reconnecting a file on a network drive, PSE will let you import the file a second time, failing to recognize it as a duplicate.  The catalog is left in an inconsistent state, with two entries in the volume table for the network drive, one upper case and one lower case.
    [F] The Reconnect command fails to reconnect when: you move your photos to a new drive, assign the drive the letter of the old drive to the new one, and leave both drives connected to your computer.
    [F] If a hard drive containing photos in the catalog gets its drive letter reassigned by Windows, then the left-hand folder pane of Display > Folder Location view shows the old drive letter, not the new one, as containing the photos.
    This sounds innocuous, but it led a user on the forums to select the wrong drive when dragging and dropping a folder, permanently deleting some files.  This bug and the previous one with Reconnect had the same underlying cause – the Organizer didn’t update drive letters in its catalog.  Fixed in PSE 8.
    [F] The Restore Catalog command puts the wrong path into the restored catalog for folders whose name starts with the catalog name, and it will mark files in those folders as missing. For example if the catalog is named “houses”, and a folder containing photos in the catalog is named “houses photos”, files in the restored catalog will have the path “houses\ photos\” instead of “houses photos\”.
    [U] Folder Location view shows incorrect folder contents when more than one keyword tag is selected in the Keyword Tags pane.
    Based on reports on the forums, there appear to be other situations where Folder Location view shows incorrect folder contents, but they haven’t been easy to reproduce.
    [U] The Organizer fails very ungracefully when two drives have the same volume serial number, e.g. because of the use of a disk-cloning utility.
    I remain mystified that Adobe didn’t add the three lines of code that would have issued a warning when it discovered two drives with the same number.  While most people will never encounter this, when it strikes someone, its symptoms are very mysterious (and a lot of people using cloning utilities).
    [U] The conversion of a catalog from PSE 6 to PSE 8 doesn’t properly handle photos that are stored within the PSE 6 catalog folder (as occurs when PSE 6 was used to restore a catalog from a backup).  As a result, it isn’t possible to save photos in version sets, and PSE 8 will create duplicate thumbnails in the Organizer for an edited file.
    [U] File > Backup/Restore Catalog doesn’t backup and restore audio in slide shows.
    [U] Using Folder Location view to move a folder containing hidden files imported in the catalog will silently fail to move the hidden files and will leave the unhidden files disconnected in the catalog.
    [U] When converting a previous-version catalog whose photos are stored inside the catalog folder, as occurs when you’ve previously used File > Restore Catalog with New Location, PSE 8 needlessly copies all those photos. If you have a very large catalog, this will waste huge amounts of disk space; and if there isn’t enough disk space to do the copy, the conversion will fail instantly with a generic non-explanatory error message.
    Minor Problems
    [U] In File > Export, the Common Basename can no longer be empty, and a hyphen is added automatically, so you can no longer get files named 1.jpg, 2.jpg, etc.
    You can get files named 1.jpg, 2.jpg, etc. but you can’t get files named p1.jpg, p2.jpg, etc. – a hyphen is still added in that case.
    [U] Setting the Apply Metadata > Author or Copyright fields or the option Preserve Current Filename In XMP of the advanced options of the Photo Downloader causes duplicate files to be downloaded and imported.
    Integration with Photoshop.com
    Major problems
    [F] Adding a photo to a second synced album will cause Photoshop.com to lose any changes you’ve made with PSE’s Edit > Adjust Date And Time.
    [F] If you you rename a file that’s synced with Photoshop.com, Photoshop.com doesn’t pick up the new name (important if you’re using Photoshop.com as a backup service).
    [U] Photoshop.com shows an incorrect date/time taken for photos with unknown month, day, or time.
    The date/time shows as the the first month/day/minute/second in that time period in UTC that then gets converted to local time; e.g. “7/2/2005” gets shown as “7/1/2005 5:00 PM” for a user in PDT.
    [U] Photoshop.com doesn’t obey the EXIF Orientation metadata field and can show photos rotated incorrectly, e.g. if they were rotated with the PSE option Edit > Preferences > Files > Rotate JPEGs/TIFFs Using Orientation Metadata.
    [U] Changes to the order of photos in a PSE album aren’t synced to Photoshop.com, and vice versa.
    [U] Only the top photo in a version set is synced with Photoshop.com (so you can’t rely on Photoshop.com to backup version sets).
    [U] When a stack is synced with Photoshop.com, all the photos in the stack are synced, but the fact that they were in a stack is lost (so you can’t rely on Photoshop.com to backup stacks).
    Map View
    Major Problems
    [U] It takes 4 seconds to assign a keyword tag to a photo if there are 2,000 or more photos with map locations.
    It takes 2 seconds with 1,000 photos, 6 seconds with 4000 photos, and 11 seconds with 8,000 photos, and 21 seconds with 12,000 photos.
    [U] Map view is unusably slow with more than 8 - 10,000 mapped photos.
    When I imported 12,000 photos (the size of my catalog) that had GPS locations, the Organizer crashed a number of times when I tried to zoom and pan the Map view.   When I selected Limit Search to Map Area, PSE took over a minute to respond.
    [U] Giving a map location to a tag assigned to hundreds of photos makes both the Keywords pane and the Map view unusably slow.
    Giving a map location to a tag assigned to 1700 photos makes assigning any keyword tag to a photo very slow, 12 seconds.    Searching on keyword tags and Show All each take 13 seconds.
    [U] Removing the map push-pin of a tag assigned to hundreds of photos mistakenly tries to update the metadata of each photo, which can take tens of minutes and fill up your recycle bin.
    The weird thing is that assigning a map location to the tag doesn’t try to write the metadata of files with that tag.
    [U] Moving map locations always fails, silently (too bad if you want to record backcountry locations not namable via a place name).
    [U] If a photo with GPS coordinates is imported, it doesn’t show as a red push-pin on the map.
    Scrolling the map or restarting the Organizer causes the pin to appear.
    Color Management
    Major Problems
    [U] The Organizer considers photos produced by cameras set to the color space Adobe RGB as untagged with a color profile, showing their colors incorrectly.
    Metadata
    Major Problems
    [U] The File > Write Keyword Tag command doesn’t create or update .XMP sidecars for Nikon D300 or D80 .NEF raw files (but it does for Canon CR2 raw files).
    The PSE 8 Write Keyword Tag command now gives a warning when you try to invoke it on a D300 .NEF raw file. Why PSE can write sidecars for Canon but not Nikon raw files is a mystery – it’s no harder to handle one than the other.
    [U] File > Write Keyword Tags and Properties fails to write the map location (GPS coordinates) of TIFFs (tested with TIFFs produced by the PSE Editor and the Nikon Coolscan V, Nikon Coolscan 5000, and Epson 4490 scanners).
    [U] File > Write Keyword Tags doesn’t write the map location (GPS coordinates) into the .xmp sidecar files of Nikon D80 or Canon G9 raw photos.
    [U] The Organizer ignores correctly formatted EXIF GPS locations in some files that many other programs can read without trouble; this may be because the EXIF is encoded in little-endian byte order.
    [U] New dates set by Edit > Adjust Date and Time sometimes get silently lost.
    See http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/photoshopelements-6-7-faq.htm#_Date/times_of_files for details and workarounds.
    [U] Edit > Adjust Date and Time > Shift To New Starting Date And Time and > Shift By Set Number Of Hours writes the time in UTC rather than local time, as required by the standard, causing other tools to show the wrong date/time.
    [U] In Thumbnail View, the Organizer incorrectly orders files that have unknown time. For example, it will show a file dated 12/25/1976 8:00 PM PST after a file dated 12/26/1976 (unknown time) on a computer in time zone PST.
    [U] If you set a file's date/time fields to all unknown with Edit > Adjust Date And Time, the value of EXIF:DateTimeOriginal isn't cleared by File > Write Keyword Tag.
    [U] Edit > Adjust Date and Time doesn’t properly handle US Daylight Savings Time when setting date/times many decades ago, e.g. October 5, 1961 12:00 PM.
    [U] When setting the Organizer’s date/time for imported photos containing EXIF:DateTimeOriginal but not XMP:DateTimeOriginal, PSE 7 doesn’t properly handle US Daylight Savings Time in years prior to 2007, e.g. October 31, 2006 12:00 PM.
    Minor Problems
    [F] The Properties – Metadata window shows the wrong value for Date Time Original when the month, day, or time is unknown.
    [F] When you save an edited photo as a new file but not in a version set, the edited version picks up the date/time and caption of the original but not the keyword tags, star rating, or notes.
    Now, the edited version picks up date/time, caption, notes, and keyword tags, but not the star rating, which could be charitably interpreted as a plausible design decision.
    [U] Deselecting the option Use “Last Modified” Date If EXIF Date Is Not Found does not work – the last-modified date is always used for an imported file that doesn’t contain an EXIF date.
    [U] Edit > Adjust Date and Time applied to a file with time “unknown” decrements the date by one day.
    [U] With the Import EXIF Caption option turned off, captions pre-existing in a file’s EXIF:ImageDescription metadata field reappear in the Organizer after invoking the Full Editor.
    Searching
    Major Problems
    [U] The timeline doesn’t correctly display date ranges spanning many years.
    [U] Using the Keyword Tags pane, you can no longer exclude a parent category from a search, e.g. exclude all photos tagged with any tag in the People category.
    The User Guide gives two examples of how to use category exclusion that just don’t work in PSE 6, 7, or 8.  Interestingly, you can almost work around this by doing a text search of “not <category tag>”, e.g. “not People”.   But this will also exclude photos that happen to have the word “people” in their filenames, captions, or notes, probably not what you want.  You can also use the text query “not tag:<category tag>”, .e.g. “not tag:places”, but this will exclude all tags containing “places” as part of their name – there is no way to get an exact match of a tag name.
    [U] Find > By History > Imported On sorts the photo dates alphabetically, rather than by date/time.
    When the results first display, they are now sorted by Imported From then (correctly) by Date/Time. However, if you click on the Date/Time column header to sort by that column, the dates are sorted alphabetically (incorrectly).
    [U] Find > By History > Imported On takes a couple of minutes on a large catalog, making the command almost useless.
    [U] Find > By History > Imported On shows a scary message “Deleting Keyword Tags” that is apparently harmless.
    [U] Searching with the Find Bar for “1 star and lower” doesn’t show photos with 0 stars.
    Find > By Details > Rating Is Lower Than 1 Star does work.
    [U] Searching for “0 stars only” doesn’t work for photos in a catalog converted from PSE 5.
    [U] Searching with date ranges doesn’t properly handle time “unknown”.
    Minor Problems
    [U] The Show All button sometimes doesn’t appear if you quickly type a query into the Search text box and hit Enter.
    [U] Setting a date range and then excluding two tags from the search clears the date range.
    [U] Show All doesn’t clear a date range set by Find > Set Date Range (can be very confusing).
    [U] Save Search Criteria As Smart Album isn’t available if a date range has been set but no other search criteria have been.
    [U] When searching, you can exclude a keyword tag and then include an album, but you can’t do it in the other order.
    User Interface
    Major Problems
    [?] On 1024x768 displays, and sometimes at higher resolutions, the Editor Print window is positioned to perfectly obscure the scroll bar of the drop-down list of printer profiles, leading people to think their printer’s profiles aren’t available.
    I can’t reproduce this in PSE 8.  The Editor’s Print dialog is all rearranged.  But this bug struck some people and not others, so it may be still lurking.
    [U] The menu bars don’t display if you have changed the screen DPI to be larger than 96 (as many people do on today’s ubiquitous high-res displays).
    Adobe should be embarrassed about this, given that more and more computers are shipping preconfigured with higher DPIs.  See http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/photoshopelements-6-7-faq.htm#The_Organizers_Menu_Bar_ doesnt_show for a workaround.
    Minor Problems
    [F] Copying a paragraph from Microsoft Word and pasting it into the Notes field of a keyword tag causes some of the spaces between words to be deleted.
    [F] In the full Editor, if at least one open photo is minimized to the Project Bin, Ctrl-Tab no longer cycles through the open windows.
    [F] The Editor window can’t be resized the standard Windows way by grabbing any edge, just the lower-right corner.
    Well, almost – you can grab the left, right, and bottom edges but not the top.
    [F] Alt doesn’t underline the shortcut letters of top-level menu items in the Full Editor (but it does in the Organizer).
    Both the Editor and Organizer don’t show the underline until you let up on the Alt key, whereas other Windows program show the underline when you first press the Alt key.
    [F] The width of the Editor's Palette Bin can't be adjusted by dragging the left edge, as you can with all the other similar panes (Project Bin, Organizer Bin, Map View).
    [U] In the Properties window of Full Screen mode, if you click in the Notes field and do Ctrl-A to select all the text, then click in the Caption field and do Ctrl-A to select its text, the notes remain highlighted.
    [U] In the Organizer, Help > System Info reports the wrong amount for “Built-in Memory” on computers with more than 2GB of installed memory.  (The command reports the correct amount in the Editor.)
    [U] The setting of View > Show Borders Around Thumbnails isn’t remembered after you restart PSE.
    [U] Ctrl-A to select all text doesn’t work in the text fields of the Properties window.
    Interestingly, you can use ctrl-A in the text fields of the full-screen mode Properties window.
    [U] Dialogs in the Editor sometimes bounce back when you try to move them.
    [U] Dates are shown by Display > Import Batch as 2\20\2008 rather than 2/20/2008.
    [U] In Create > Slide Show > Slide Show Preferences dialog, you can't use backspace or delete to clear the text in the Static and Transition Duration fields -- you need to select the text and then type over the selection (non-standard Windows behavior).
    [U] Escape doesn’t close the full-screen-mode Properties dialog.
    [U] You can’t use the Windows Explorer Tile command to tile the PSE Organizer and Editor windows.
    The Editor can now be tiled by Windows Explorer and other window managers, but the Organizer still can’t.
    Slide Shows
    Major Problems
    [F] The duration of a video clip included in a Slide Show is set to the default duration, not the length of the video clip, and right-click Edit Duration doesn’t change the clip’s duration.
    PSE now sets the duration to the length of the clip.  You can’t edit the duration, though – you can invoke Edit Duration, but PSE ignores the new value.
    [U] An audio caption attached to a photo isn’t imported into a slide show even though the option Include Audio Captions as Narration is selected.
    For an individual slide, you can give the Use Existing Audio Caption command to import that photo’s existing audio caption.
    Editor
    Minor Problems
    [F] The Editor crashes if you invoke Quick Fix and use just one Touch Up tool (e.g. Whiten Teeth) and then save the file (but your changes are correctly saved).
    [U] The File > Save For Web command doesn’t remember the last settings (e.g. file format and quality) after your restart the Editor.
    For a workaround, see http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/photoshopelements-6-7-faq.htm#_Allow_Save_For.

    John,
    Firstly, my apologies for the length of this post – it has been fermenting a while.  For those in a hurry I have split it into two sections – the first contains some general comments on the situation with PSE (v 7 in my case) and Adobe (as I see it) and the second contains a list of issues that I have encountered and some suggestions for improvement.  As with you, my comments are largely directed at the Organiser module within PSE.
    Part 1:
    Before going any further I’d like to say what an excellent job you’ve done in cataloguing, understanding and in many cases providing solutions to a number of bugs.  Adobe should be paying you a hefty sum for doing this work.  It’s a welcome change from a large percentage of what you read in blogs and forums to see things dealt with systematically, objectively and in an informed way.
    I’m less impressed with Adobe’s approach.  In my opinion, if you choose not to provide program updates to your customers (i.e. you get what you bought in the box and that’s it) then you have a moral obligation to make sure that what you sell is as robust and free of bugs as possible.
    I would be very surprised if they were not well aware of the comments you have made (if they aren’t then that would indicate an appalling failure of their ability to process feedback).  The fact that they have not, in subsequent releases, dealt with all of the issues that have been highlighted is not good.  I would go further and suggest that it is actually a breach of fair trading practice and disingenuous to sell the product as “fit for purpose” knowing these bugs are still in place.
    It’s unreasonable to expect software to be absolutely faultless, and this is why the issuing of updates is a much “fairer” system.  The problem, I think, with Adobe’s approach is that to entice new customers to each release they need to provide new features.  A natural consequence of this is that there is a temptation to prioritise development of new features rather than providing solutions to existing issues.  There is no incentive for Adobe to change this state of affairs for as long as customers are purchasing their products.  In this respect one of the problems is that many of the reviewers to whom prospective customers go will rely on first impressions and will not uncover many of the issues.  Adobe may be comfortable with this situation (and on relying on the reflected aura of Photoshop) but their product is not cheap and there is plenty of scope for competitors to provide a more robust, dependable product at cheaper price.  With free applications like Picasa they will need to be very careful they don’t drop the ball.
    Don’t get me wrong I think the concept of PSE organiser is excellent (I actually prefer it to my experience of Lightroom), it is the quality of execution that I have issues with.
    My first experience of PSE was version 3 and this was positive enough for me to purchase PSE 7.  However, my biggest disappointment with PSE 7, because to me it is fundamental, has been the quality of rendering images in full screen mode.  Yours is the first comment I have seen that comments on the appearance of “jaggies” when displaying images in PSE.  My understanding is that this relates to the anti-aliasing which is carried out when converting from image to display resolution and the level to which this smoothes out gradients in hue, saturation and luminance.  I never observed this problem is PSE 3.  Although the degree of anti-aliasing is a subjective preference, I was deeply disappointed and still find it hard to believe that free or bundled software (picture manager, windows picture viewer, etc) can manage this when PSE 7 can’t.
    Anyway, I’m not sure how to illicit a change from Adobe.  One way is to write the sort of rant I have above although I doubt this will make much difference.  In any case keep up the good work and hopefully something will come of it.
    Part 2:
    Some issues I’ve encountered:
    Migration from Windows XP to Windows 7 – change in directory structure means that the “documents and settings” part of the user directory path in XP (i.e. c:\documents and settings\<<username>>\etc.) is now a shortcut which redirects you to the new location for user files which is c:\users\<<username>> \etc.  If you are migrating from an old XP machine to a new Windows 7 one, you’ve kept your username the same and you have tried to retain the same directory structure then PSE 7 will still find files in your catalogue with the old style path.  However, it will not recognise duplicates if you accidentally re-import the same files now they are on your Windows 7 machine.  My workaround for this is to use an external file manager (e.g. windows explorer) to change the name of the directory that contains all of your photos.  This causes PSE 7 to fail to resolve the path locations.  You can then can select the relevant files and reconnect using the reconnect facility (File-Reconnect-Missing Files);
    Watched folders are lost for any drive other than C when PSE 7 is closed and then reopened;
    Duplicate files are not recognised and can be imported if they are not on the C drive (i.e. on an external drive);
    Selecting a category selects all of the keyword tags/subcategories beneath it but excluding it does not exclude all of the keyword tags/subcategories beneath it; however, both selecting and excluding a sub-category selects and excludes the tags/sub categories beneath it;
    Searches bring back the entire version set or stack even if only one of the files within meets the search criteria;
    The instant search facility will sometimes decide that a number typed in is a date and will not find some files you would expect it to e.g. those where the number typed in is part of the filename rather than a date;
    Anti-aliasing is insufficient – jaggies appear on jpegs displayed at certain zoom level.  Interestingly this does not seem to occur if a jpeg has been created from a raw file through PSE 7 rather than an external application (at least for the camera I have).
    Some suggestions:
    Find duplicates facility;
    Sort by filename and other file data;
    Hide directories in the folder directory pane of the folder view if they contain no imported files – in PSE3 this was the only option and was actually quite useful to confirm that there were no imported files in a certain location (e.g. if e:\...etc was not in the list then you knew that you had no imported files located on the e:\ drive).  It would be good to have this a display option.
    Allow filters to be applied only to selected files;
    Allow files to be rotated in the organiser without actually resaving them as a rotated file.

  • How do I get PSE 8 to open just one file, not previous ones?

    I just reinstalled PSE 8 (which I prefer to PSE 10) on my new iMac (using Lion 10.4.7; the previous iMac used Leopard 10.5.8) and when I click on a file in a folder or from Bridge to open it in PSE 8, the previous files I worked on also open. I can easily get to prevously worked on files through the drop-down menu, and it's annoying to have to close them when I don't want them opening when I start PSE 8. Any ideas, please? I've looked at Excel Preferences and System Preferences, to no avail.

    This is mostly a lion thing, rather than a PSE thing. To disable applications opening where they left off last time for all the programs on your computer, go to system preferences>general and untick this box:
    You can also do on a per-program basis, but it's more complicated and the best thing to do is to search around for directions on the web and see which way is least uncomfortable for you.
    There's an odd little glitch in PSE that it opens the last image you had open, even if you closed it before quitting last time. Adobe says this is correct behavior, but of course it isn't.

  • All my .psd files created in PSE were changed  to CS files--how can I get them back to PSE?

    Running PC, Win7, HP Pavilion dv7.  PSE6, CS4.
    I use both PSE6 and CS4 depending on the project.  I am very happy with both of these elderly versions and have no desire to change.
    Recently, all the projects (works in progress, .psd files) that I had created and saved using PSE suddenly converted themselves into CS4.  Literally.  I booted my computer and there were no more PSE projects.  (To see what was going on, I created a .psd file with PSE and saved it; it also saved itself as CS4.)  I can find no way to open them in PSE.  This isn't a crisis, obviously, since I can still open them in CS4.  But I prefer to work on these projects in PSE (that's why I used PSE to create them in the first place).  And it's impractical to go through a laborious process of opening in CS4 and then transferring everything to PSE, only to have it end up as CS4 again.
    The only change I have made: I downloaded and installed Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) updates, upgrading the PSE from v4.2 to v5.6, and upgrading CS to v5.7.  Both installed and function without difficulty.
    I will be very grateful for any advice/info that will allow me to work in the Photoshop program of my choice (PSE or CE), save and reopen in the same program.
    Update:
    The problem is half solved.  Somehow CS4 was made the default for .psd files.
    Unfortunately, it seems that for whatever reason, since this incident all .psd files must have the same default "Open with..." program.  If I select a PSE project and make PSE the default program to open that type of file all .psd projects--even those created and saved in CS4, show the PSE logo and open with PSE when clicked.
    So basically I have to decide which one I use more, then use the "Open with..." option for the other.  Which introduces a small but noticeable hiccup into the work flow.
    I'm still at a loss to understand how this happened.  Used to be that CS4 projects displayed a CS4 logo, and PSE projects displayed a PSE logo, and each would open in the correct program when clicked.
    Simple is better.
    Message was edited by: drwin88

    "Not typical behavior". I think not. I am yet another person this happened to. Even if I can get them back, you've just wasted an hour or two of my time. I won't be using firefox again after I've recovered my bookmarks. If I recover them. Thanks for nothing.

  • PSE 6 Problems Fixed in PSE 7

    Over the past year, Ive kept a list of PSE 6 problems Ive encountered and verified:
    http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b65e1b/0
    Ive tested those problems in PSE 7 on my computer, and the results appear below.
    PSE 6 problems that appear to have been fixed in PSE 7 are marked [F], and problems that arent fixed are marked [NF]. Because of limitations of the forum, this list is split across several messages.
    Overview
    The good news is that Adobe has fixed many of the most serious problems with PSE 6:
    - The missing Help content.
    - The inability to use raw files on a newer computer.
    - The Move command that deleted files.
    - The low-contrast grey-on-black user interface.
    In addition, the PSE 7 Organizer seems significantly zippier for scrolling and searching (with my 13K catalog and someone elses 68K catalog).
    The not-so-good news is that a fair number of serious problems and a large number of minor ones remain unfixed:
    - The Organizer still gets horribly confused by reassignment of drive letters and drives with duplicate serial numbers, situations that occur when people upgrade their computers.
    - Numerous problems with searching, including the broken timeline and exclude keyword category.
    - Folder Location view still shows incorrect folder contents.
    - Map view remains a buggy toy that cant handle more than several hundred photos.
    - Date/times set by Adjust Date and Time can still be lost silently.
    - High-resolution displays with DPIs larger than 96 arent supported.
    - The Organizer shows incorrect colors for Adobe RGB photos.
    There are 65 issues listed here, 37 of which are major, causing data loss or seriously impeding functionality with no easy, obvious workaround. Of the 37 major issues, 13 have been fixed. Of the 28 minor issues, 8 have been fixed.
    Ive reported all of these problems to Adobe. Almost all of them are in the Organizer. Based on all the reports on the forums, it appears that the PSE 6 Editor has far fewer problems the Organizer. Perhaps thats because the Editor shares the same code with the professional Photoshop, while the Organizer appears to be an orphaned consumer product whose development Adobe has moved offshore.
    For reference, my computer is a midrange laptop with a dual-core 1.8 GHz processor, 3 GB of memory, and a 7200 RPM disk (the same speed as desktop disks).
    Raw Files
    Major Problems
    [F] On a multiprocessor, the Organizer behaves erratically with catalogs containing raw files: sometimes it crashes, sometimes it shows the hourglass icon for raw files, sometimes it shows the broken-image icon.
    [F] In a catalog with large numbers of raw files, scrolling quickly over dozens or hundreds of large-sized thumbnails will consume 100% CPU for a minute or longer.

    Part II
    File Management and Tagging
    Major Problems
    [F] The File > Move command will silently and permanently lose a file if the destination folder has a file of the same name as the file being moved; this is different behavior than PSE 5.
    [F] The File > Move command loses the association between the photo and the audio caption, even though it moves both files to the new location.
    [F] If you move or rename a catalog using File > Catalog > Move/Rename, you can no longer edit existing slideshows in the catalog.
    [F] Tag hierarchies with more than 500 or so tags make the Keywords pane unusably slow (but worked fine in PSE 5).
    [F] The Photo Downloader process APDProxy.exe crashes at startup because of a missing DLL.
    ]This problem doesnt occur in my PSE 7. But it was clearly a timing-dependent bug (a race condition) that came and went for me and many others, so it may be still lurking. Adobe has a tech note that says it occurs with PSE 7, but the tech note gives symptoms and a workaround that only apply to PSE 6, suggesting a cut-and-paste error by a PSE 7 support person.
    [NF] The Organizer fails very ungracefully when two drives have the same volume serial number, e.g. because of the use of a disk-cloning utility.
    ]Im very disappointed that Adobe didnt add the three lines of code that would have issued a warning when it discovered two drives with the same number. While most people will never encounter this, when it strikes someone, its symptoms are very mysterious. Adobes tech note on the issue gives incorrect and misleading information about possible solutions.
    [NF] The Reconnect command fails to reconnect when: you move your photos to a new drive, assign the drive the letter of the old drive to the new one, and leave both drives connected to your computer.
    [NF] If a hard drive containing photos in the catalog gets its drive letter reassigned by Windows, then the left-hand folder pane of Display > Folder Location view shows the old drive letter, not the new one, as containing the photos.
    ]This sounds innocuous, but it led a user on the forums to select the wrong drive when dragging and dropping a folder, permanently deleting some files. This bug and the previous one with Reconnect have the same underlying cause the Organizer doesnt update drive letters in its catalog.
    [NF] Folder Location view shows incorrect folder contents when more than one keyword tag is selected in the Keyword Tags pane.
    ]Based on reports on the forums, there appear to be other situations where Folder Location view shows incorrect folder contents, but they havent been easy to reproduce.
    Minor Problems
    [F] The File > Rename command no longer includes leading zeroes, causing the renamed files to sort incorrectly in Windows Explorer.
    [F] Display > Import Batch shows the wrong time for batches imported by the Photo Downloader; if the local time zone is UTC-8:00, then the time will be 8 hours earlier.
    [F] The Organizer doesnt unlock an edited file saved to a folder whose name contains an apostrophe.
    [NF] In File > Export, the Common Basename can no longer be empty, and a hyphen is added automatically, so you can no longer get files named 1.jpg, 2.jpg, etc.
    ]You can get files named 1.jpg, 2.jpg, etc. but you cant get files named p1.jpg, p2.jpg, etc. a hyphen is still added in that case.
    [NF] Setting the Apply Metadata > Author or Copyright fields or the option Preserve Current Filename In XMP of the advanced options of the Photo Downloader causes duplicate files to be downloaded and imported.
    Map View
    Major Problems
    [NF] Map view is unusably slow with more than about 6-8,000 mapped photos.
    ]When I tested PSE 7 by importing 12,000 photos (the size of my catalog) that had GPS locations, the red push-pins didnt blink uncontrollably as they did in PSE 6. But the Organizer crashed a number of times when I tried to zoom and pan the Map view until I was able to scroll the map to another country and then back again. The CPU continued to consume 80% of a single CPU (40% of two), even 10 minutes after I closed Map view. When I selected Limit Search to Map Area, PSE took over a minute to respond.
    [NF] It takes 5 seconds to assign a keyword tag to a photo if there are 1,000 or more photos with map locations.
    ]In PSE 7, it takes 3 seconds with 1,000 photos, 12 seconds with 8,000 photos, and 18 seconds with 12,000 photos.
    [NF] Giving a map location to a tag assigned to hundreds of photos makes both the Keywords pane and the Map view unusably slow.
    ]Giving a map location to a tag assigned to 2000 photos makes assigning any keyword tag to a photo very slow (see above). Searching on keyword tags takes 15 seconds, and a Show All takes 15 seconds.
    [NF] Removing the map push-pin of a tag assigned to hundreds of photos mistakenly tries to update the metadata of each photo, which can take tens of minutes and fill up your recycle bin.
    ]The weird thing is that assigning a map location to the tag doesnt try to write the metadata of files with that tag.
    [NF] Moving map locations always fails, silently (too bad if you want to record backcountry locations not namable via a place name).
    [NF] If a photo with GPS coordinates is imported, it doesnt show as a red push-pin on the map.
    ]Scrolling the map or restarting the Organizer causes the pin to appear.

  • Photoshop Elements 11 Organizer: Full screen view of lower quality than with PSE 10 and before?!

    Upgrading from PSE 10 to 11, I noticed that when I watch my images with the organizer in PSE 11 in full screen view mode (F11), while the images load faster, they are shown in a lower quality than in PSE 10 or any other version of PSE that I owned before. In PSE 11, after the initial viewing in full screen (in the "fit screen" mode), when I click with the mouse on an image to display the "100%" view, there is a delay and the program says "Loading...", after which the 100% view in the full screen mode appears. When I then click another time with the mouse on the image to get back to "fit screen" mode, I get an image of better quality than during the initial view!
    So it seems like the program first gives a faster, but lower quality view of the image in full screen mode, and only after the user requests a 100% view, it actually loads the image with full detail, which is then preserved when going back to the "fit screen" view. This is a serious issue for me, because I also use PSE organizer to present my pictures to other people, and I don't want to show them some lower quality versions of my images, but the full quality ones, without having to first choose "100% view" and then go back to "fit screen".
    How can I make the PSE 11 organizer give me a full-quality full screen image right away, as this used to be the case in PSE10 and before?
    (I have both versions, PSE 11 and PSE 10, now on the same computer and tested this to confirm that the PSE 11 initial full screen view is of lower quality than the PSE 10 one. Also in PSE 10, there is practically no delay for displaying the "100%" view afterwards, indicating that the image was loaded with full detail right away.)

    - Update:
    * Adobe's senior support level has replied to me about this issue as follows:
    "Thank you for contacting Adobe.
    When you press the F11 button, Organizer 11 uses the Bicubic
    interpolation mainly because it is less processor intensive compared to
    Bicubic Sharper, and it helps to create the preview on the fly, rather
    than based on the thumbnail cache.
    When you zoom out from the 100% view, Elements Organizer uses Bicubic
    Sharper. This is because Bicubic Sharper is used for image reduction, so
    if the 100% view is larger than the available screen space, it will need
    to shrink. The Bicubic Sharper images may look more crisp however, Like
    any sharpening algorithm, Bicubic Sharper introduces halos and
    edge-enhancement artifacts. Those halos are typically slight, but any
    further sharpening (which you'll need when preparing an image for print,
    for example) will exaggerate them.This is expected behavior. The
    Organizer isn't great for determining exact quality, I recommend you to
    use Elements Editor for this purpose.
    Thank you,
    Bobby Johnson,
    Adobe Technical Support."
    * My reply on this to Adobe is:
    "Hello Bobby,
    thank you for your reply. Now at least we are talking about the same thing.
    Why I am wondering about the choice to use the "Bicubic" algorithm when pressing F11 in PSE 11 is that all previous versions of PSE that I owned (which spans from PSE 6 to PSE 10) did use the "Bicubic Sharper" algorithm right away when pressing F11. So apparently Adobe didn't worry about processor intensity of this algorithm then, and computers are getting all the time more powerful.
    It is true that in some situations, the "Bicubic Sharper" algorithm may introduce halos and edge-enhancement artifacts, as you write. On the other hand, especially on smaller resolution screens, the results of the "Bicubic Sharper" algorithm may look more crisp and lively, while the ones of the "Bicubic" algorithm may look more flat and lack fine detail. This is not only my personal opinion, but as I have brought up this topic in several forums, I can see that I am not alone here.
    So assuming that the question about preferring "Bicubic Sharper" or "Bicubic" as a default algorithm when pressing F11 is partly a matter of taste, and partly a matter of the hardware the user has available, why can Abobe not give the user an option to choose which one he/she would prefer? For instance, F11 gives full screen view with "Bicubic" applied, and CTRL+F11 with "Bicubic sharper"? Or make this an option in the preferences?
    As I am using the PSE organizer also to present pictures to other people (and I know many people who use it that way too), I would like to show them my pictures as sharp and detail-rich as possible. Therefore, I would highly appreciate an option as described above to be implemented in the PSE 11 organizer via an update. It should be fairly easy from a programming point of view, since both algorithms are already contained in the program anyway."
    * If you support this suggestion of mine as stated above, please also contact Adobe accordingly! The more support requests they get for this, the more likely it is that they will implement this update! You may mention my case number 0184046323 for reference.

  • PSE 11 - MacOX 10.7.5  -MORE-Printer and Profiles Not Working Correctly for first print

    As suggested by adobe support contacted Epson.   What I expected no help.  Since it works ok with PSE10, PSE 9, CS5 it could not be their problem. 
    However PSE 11 have changed something in the sequence of events.
    I then downloaded a trial version of Lightroom 4.   no problem everything works.
    I have been offered a refund for PSE11.     That is not encourageing.  Does that mean wait for PSE12?????
    I developed a bypass - every time I start up PSE11  I just print a dummy image thumb nail size.   then go on to regular printing and all works.
    original discussion
    Macosx 10.7.5
    When I start up PSE11  and go to print I set up the paper size then select a Printer Profile.  When print the image it is a mess and seem to be black and white it is as if I printed on the wrong side of the paper.
    I then go and try to print it again.   Now it all works as it should beutiful colours and spot on.  all other print following this works.
    Then I shut down PSE11.   Start it up again.  Guess what  first print is a mess again.   all others after are fine.
    I uninstalled PSE11, deleted prefs.  and reinstalled PSE11.    Same thing..   first print a mess all others ok.
    the issue can be replicated consistantly......
    no problems with PSE10 or PSE9
    any suggestions?????
    cheers elo

      It does seem like strange behavior but thanks for sharing the work around.

  • Keywords imported from PSE 5.0 (Poor User Experience)

    When moving to Lightroom, I successfully imported my substantial catalog (6,000 images) from Photoshop Elements 5.0. Keyword importing doesn't seem to be quite right, however. I've noticed the following two problems.
    1. All keywords appear both in their proper hierarchy AND as separate, top level keywords. For example, I have:
    Family
    Kids
    Nick
    as well as just:
    Nick
    All they Nick photos are tagged with both keywords (just "Nick" and "Nick>Kids>Family.")
    These keywords seem to be treated by LR as separate keywords. For instance, if I apply "Nick" to a photo, it does not update the photo count for "Nick>Kids>Family." And vice versa.
    This is a confusing situation. So it seems that I should delete all of the standalone, top level keywords, like "Nick." Do others agree? Is this a bug in the importing process from PSE 5.0?
    2. The hierarchy tags do not seem to update the photo count properly. When I create a parent/child keyword relationship in Lightroom, the addition of a child tag will of course update the count for the parent ("Family" as well as "Nick"). But this does not seem to work with respect to the keyword hierarchies imported from PSE 5.0. So perhaps I should essentially re-create the keyword structure in LR, which wouldn't be that hard to do. (Select "Nick" photos, delete the existing keywords, and create a new "Nick" keyword with the proper parent/child relationships.)
    Again, have others seen this behavior? Or am I misunderstanding how this functionality is supposed to work?
    I'm running LR 1.3.1 on Windows Vista.
    Thanks.

    I'm trying the Lightroom trial version and have had very similar issues on my import from Elements 5.02.
    I get a Top level tag and a matching one in a tree, event though it is only in the tree in Element Organizer. Some seem to have the identical set of photos, but others like "Emma" (my cat) have 10 photos attached at the top level and 200+ in the tree.
    I'm also struggling with using multiple keywords at once like
    Jim + Mexico + Lisa
    In the tree view I can only select one at a time and when typing into FIND it sometimes narrows the selection drastically for no apparent reason.
    Any pointers for someone happy with their Elements Organizer into Lightroom import would be most appreciated.
    Jim Cruickshank

  • PSE 7: Images on Network Drive

    All my images are on a another machine on my network, that I access with a UNC path. The other machine is running XP just like the machine that PSE7 is installed on.
    If I just use the organizer everything works fine. When I send an image to the editor to be worked on, it works great until I save the image. Then the organize will not come back. It shows as "not responding" in the task manager. What is even stranger it breaks all my network shares to the other computer. They are return "no access", until I reboot both boxes. This never happened with the earlier versions of PSE (and I have had them all).
    Any ideas?
    PS: the faq on how to stop the ads says the paths are different for XP. I can't find and "Messaging Pods" program only PodPlayer in application_swfs. Is that the one?

    David,
    > When I send an image to the editor to be worked on, it works great until I save the image. Then the organize will not come back. It shows as "not responding" in the task manager. What is even stranger it breaks all my network shares to the other computer. They are return "no access", until I reboot both boxes. This never happened with the earlier versions of PSE (and I have had them all).
    That is strange behavior. A couple of troubleshooting thoughts:
    - If you run PSE 6 on the same computer with your old PSE 6 catalog, do you get the same behavior? If so, then the problem is independent of PSE 7.
    - Try starting the Editor and using File > Open to open a photo on the network share. Save it back to the network share, being sure to
    uncheck Include In Organizer. Does the problem occur? If it does, then the problem is with the Editor; if it doesnt, the problem is likely with the connection between the Organizer and Editor.

  • PSE 11 Editor with Windows 7  won't start

    Running Windows 7 with automatic and frequent updates.  Adobe PSE 11 and Lightroom 4.4 64-bin.   Lightroom works.
    When I start PSE 11 it loads the welcome screen.  If I choose Organize, that opens.
    If I choose the Photo Editor, the PSE Credits screen flashes rapidly and then a failure message  "Adobe Photoshop Elements 11 has stopped working.  A problem caused the program to stop working.  Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available."
    I read through the forum messages I could find and tried these approaches
    Cleared out the C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\SICache folder
    Temporarily disabled my security software.  Microsoft Security Essentials - Real Time Protection - (turned it off)
    At the PSE Welcome screen I held down CTRL-ALT-SHIFT and clicked.  When prompted I agreed to DELETE the PSE Settings file.
    I found the executibles in C:\Program FIles (x86)\Adobe\PSE11, that is
      PhotoshopElementsEditor.exe
    In the Elements11Organizer Folder
      PSE Organizer.exe
      PSE11.exe
    I set all three executibles  to Run as Administrator for all users.
    Still no change in the behavior of PSE 11.  Editor wont start.  See my first paragraph.

    An update.
    I found my serial number and again downloaded and installed Photoshop Elements 11.
    That seems to have solved my problem.  From Lightroom 4 I can now right click on a photo and Edit in Photoshop Elements Editor.
    Keith B.

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