Moving and renaming files after PSE has uploaded them

I use PSE 7
I have many folders (50+) and perhsps file names ( few thousdand) that after uplaoding all of them into PSE and tagging about half I am consdering remaning some of them and also combine some folders or just renaming some folders
any way to do this with in PSE by jsut doing a folder at a time ( change folder name) and change file names all at once.
Would it be easyer to start all over by deleting all images in PSE but not on the disk then reload it all, will the tags still show up on the photo AND all the tags icons on the side bar be their after
any help greatly appreacted, I should have done this before starting to work in PSE
thanks
Mike

I think the biggest thing people miss understand about the Organizer is you no longer have to be concerned with folders or where the photos are located. The beauty of Tags allows you to locate your photo by various methods that you can not do with folders. You can have a tags for location, event and peoples name on the same photo and you can locate it in your Organizer catalog by selecting any combination of the tags you have assigned. You can not do that with folders. As an example you can find a photo of Jane, from California, at your graduation party.
Adobe does a poor job of highlighting the advantages of creating tags. The original creator of Album that was later changed to Organizer, Michael Slater, wrote a book on how and what you should think about before creating tags. Unfortunately, he no longer works for Adobe and the book was written for PSE 3. And a lot has changed since then. But the basic concept of using tags verses folders is still applicable and the Chapter is and well worth the price of the book which is still available from Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/Organize-Photos-Adobe-Photoshop-Elements/dp/0321246969

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