Lost tags

Hi, I have upgraded from PSE 6.0 to 12. My catalog was stored on an external hard drive, this became necessary to move the photos from the laptop as it was running out of memory. I have managed to import the catalog from the external hard drive into PSE 12 on my new laptop. I have started to reconnect the photos in organiser to their location on the external hard drive. I have lost all my tags, other than re-doing this manually, is there any way these can be restored. There are 4,000 photos to be tagged. I would be grateful for any advice.

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Hi, I have upgraded from PSE 6.0 to 12. My catalog was stored on an external hard drive,
I am assuming what was stored on the external drive was your media files, which I'll call your 'library'. What the Organizer calls a 'catalog' is just that : a list of those media files with their properties : location on your drive(s), full path, exif data from the camera, your tagging and rating... The catalog is physically a folder. You find its location in the Help menu, System info section. It is built around a database and many auxiliary files. By default, your catalog is on your main internal drive, not in the external hard drive.
If you install PSE12 on the same computer, all you have to do is to use the catalog manager in the file menu of the PSE12 organizer and click on the convert button. A dialog will show you a list of catalogs to convert. The conversion process will create a new catalog in the PSE12 format and recover all the information in the older catalog. That's all.
Even if I don't think it's your case, it's good to know that your PSE6 catalog (folder) could have been on your external drive if you had moved it there voluntarily. The convert feature works the same in that situation, you only have to browse to the location of the catalog in the external drive.

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