Move Catalog Album 2 to Elements 5

I have assembled about 7500 photos on Album. Up until now I have had to move each photo I wish to work on to Elements 3 for editing. I am installing Elements 5 (as soon as I can get rid of the error message 1327 Invalid drive E).
I have 2 issues:
1. Using backup in Album and then restore in Elements 5 can I move my catelog to the Elements organizer from the Album 2? Is it that simple?
2. I also want to move my photo files from my 5 year old external hard drive to a new one. Should this be done after the move to Elements and is it as simple as back up to the new drive and then restore using the new drive destantion?

I accomplished the move from PSA2 to PSE5 about 2 or 3 years ago.
My memory is kinda fuzzy, but I think you simply need to do a File->Open in PSE5 and point to the existing PSA2 catalog. Not complicated at all.
Moving files ... do this only after your PSE5 catalog is working properly. You don't use the Backup function to move files, you use the Move function (or PSE5's folder location view) to do the move, and the backup function to do a backup. Keep the idea of move and backup separate.
And by the way, you definitely
b must
have a backup of your photos on a separate physical medium (DVDs or different hard drive).

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