Lr cannot read Catalog .psa (Photoshop Album Starter Edition 3.2)

Hello,
I use Photoshop Album Starter Edition 3.2 to manage my 12'000 photos (with tags) and I'll move to Lightroom. But I cannot import the catalog .psa into Lr2.3.
Lr can read only catalog .lrcat, .lrdb, and .aglib !
I renamed catalog .psa to catalog .aglib etc. but nothing happenend.
My idea, I will :
1. Install PSE 7,
2. read catalog .psa (is it possible?)
3. export into catalog .lrcat, .lrdb, or .aglib (is it possible?)
4.then import with Lr with all the tags
Is there someting easyer to do ?
My brain is boiling :-\
Thank you
Tennistin

PSE7 should be able to convert your catalog. I don't really know, as I haven't tried and haven't read about converting PSA Starter Edition catalogs, but I am optimistic.
The problem is that the current version of Lightroom will not read PSE7 catalogs. Probably when Lightroom 3 comes out, it will read PSE7 catalogs. So, I would search the Internet to see if the trial version of PSE6 or PSE5 is available somewhere for download. If you can find one of those versions, they will convert your PSA catalog as well. Lightroom definitely does convert PSE5 and PSE6 catalogs.

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