Moving catalog from 10 to 11

I have installed Elements 11 and converted the catalog from Elements 10, but when I open Elements 11 organizer, my pictures don't show up. How do I find them and get them to open in the version sets and stacks I already have?

Are you saying that the thumbnails ahvenot generated as yet? Do you see a wait cursor on bottom status bar, hovering which you see "Gnerating Thumbnails"?
If you are seeing no photos at all but atgs/albums etc are visible from previous version catalog, go to View menu>Media Types. See if Photos is checked or not.
Let me know if that helps!
Regards,
vaishali

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When you open a lower version catalog in a newer version of Lightroom it will covert the catalog and preserve the older version.
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Here's what I wish to do. [ I apologize for all of the detail that follows, but I am trying to be careful with this.]
I want to move my PSE 8 catalog, and all of my pictures, from my old to my new pc. The old pc has XP Pro, the new one uses Windows 7. PSE 8 is on both machines.
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That was good advice, thank you dj. However, and it always seems that there is a however, I was really trying to move 2 catalogs that I had on my old pc in PSE 8..
I backed them both up to an external hard drive, deleted all of the files from my new pc, and then went to the external hard drive and hit the Restore Catalog button. I also established a new Catalog for the second catalog that I was attemting to restore. One loaded nicely and then the other, BUT, the second RESTORE apparently deleted the first! I've done this twice now, with the same results, even switching which one loaded first. What am I doing wrong?
Also, when it does load into the PICTURES library on Win 7 it loads a staggering number of folders and files on top on the final folder where the actual pictures are stored. What a pain to drill down to the actual folders where the pictures are. Anyone know of any harm in moving them up several layers in the folder structure? I even used the Restore option New Location/Restore Original Folder Structure option. It apparently has kept the original structures but it did load a whole pile of folders on top of the pictures.
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Apple transferred all of my pc files transferred to the Mac, and then I downloaded the LR upgrade. That may have been a mistake, as all of the 3.6 catalogs remained on the PC. How do I get the 3.6 PC catalogs into the new version on the Mac? I'm thinking that perhaps I should uninstall LR, have Apple repeat the data migration, and then reinstall the LR 4? Or, is there another way?

Just copy the catalogs and associated preview (Lrcat and lrdata) files to he appropriate location (normally the Pictures folder) on the Mac then double click one of the lrcat files to launch Lightroom. Since the catalogs were created in Lr3.x they'll be upgraded to Lr4 when the application launches. You can upgrade all of your Lr3.6 catalogs using the same method.
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Hi law1368 ,
you go to this link where you will find all the answers to transfer data from PC to MAC by Apple ...
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I am attempting to move all my Photoshop Elements catalogs from an old PC to a new Mac; followed the online instructions and made good progress converting catalogs to Elements 12 (from 6) until I got to the step of 'backing up catalogs so I can load them on an external heard drive. That's where Photoshop stalls - just spins and no action. Any idea how to complete this so I don't lose all those catalogs in the transition?

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I am trying to move a catalog from my hardrive to an external drive. I have followed the steps i found online, but my pictures aren't there. They are still on hardrive and the catalog folder on the external is empty. Please help. I am sure there is something silly I am missing.

As Steve has already pointed out, the "catalog" and your photos are two different things. The "catalog" is the LR data base where LR references your photos.
So for LR to work properly you always need two things: (a) your photos and (b) the catalog.
The catalog is the file ending with < .lrcat>. See here where you can find the catalog in various OS: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/843/cpsid_84313.html
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On my old computer, I moved my catalog from an internal hard drive to an external one. After ages and ages of reconnecting files, I backed it up, put the external HD on the new computer, and restored it. Now I want to copy or move all the files from the slow external HD to the faster internal one. But I can't figure out how to do this? Only the catalog moved but not the individual files.
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Excellent point. I should have been more specific.
What I did was:
File->backup catalog to CD, DVD or Hard Drive
followed by
File->restore catalog from CD, DVD or Hard Drive
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Moved catalog and now LR won't open it by default. Help?

I'm running LR2 (I know, first step, UPGRADE!), but in the meantime, I had to move my catalog because my drive got full. Under the Backup dialog box I chose the new location. But when I just click on the LR icon to open the program it opens with the default C: drive catalog location that it first installed with. Then I open the specific catalog from in the program and relaunch it. I have LR set to bring the dialog box everytime I start LR since I don't use it everyday. So I back it up when the dialog comes up and when it's done it goes right back to the default catalog with none of my library in there. Why do I have to keep opening the catalog manually?? It's driving me insane at this point. Can someone provide some tips please?? Thanks.

Double-click the moved catalog and Lr will open with it.
But in fact, you did not move the catalog at all. you made a backup of your catalog, and that is what you should do.
But making a backup catalog does not mean that Lr now opens with the backup catalog.
Having a backup means that there are now 2 catalogs: the "working" catalog and the backup catalog. If you had only one (1) catalog, you wouldn't have a backup.
Lr still opens and works with your "working" catalog. That is normal and expected.
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http://tv.adobe.com/watch/creative-suite-podcast-photographers/lightroom-dude-where-are-my -photos/
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I am going to move my catalog (15K) from one internal drive to another on my PC. I recently moved from PSE6 to 8 and my question is, after I convert my catalog from 6 to 8 do I simply do a full back up and restore it to the new drive? If that is the right way then, do I go back and delete my catalog on the old drive once the new one is verified? I read a couple of old threads but I wasn't completely clear on the correct procedure. Also, when the procedures are complete, will my catalogs still be intact?
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I have just gone through this but have also moved photos to a network drive. I also upgraded from PSE6 in the process. This is what worked for me:
1) Perform a full backup of the system.
2) Open PSE6 and verified all photos are linked in the catalog (the coversion to PSE8 will loose these links). Correct or remove the missing links as required.
3) Exit PSE6
4) Install PSE8
5) Load PSE8 and convert the catalog from version 6. This will keep the old PSE6 catalog and create a new converted PSE8 catalog.
6) Use the instructions given above (in a previous post) with the folder view to move the photo folders. Drag and drop folders to the new location. If you have many folders, I would recommend moving a parent folder so you don't have to do each folder individually.
7) The PSE6 catalog will now be unusable as the images have been moved to a different location.
Moving this to a Samba server caused some complications but I eventually got it to work. Moving these to an internal drive should be a piece of cake. Please not of the following issues that I ran into:
a) Some photos were copied instead of moved from the original location. I verified everything was in place after moving the photos with the help of the folder view. I simply removed the original photos and had no issues. I'm not sure if this was because the photos were being moved to a network drive.
b) Some slideshows are missing photos if the slideshow is edited in PSE8. I think this is because the photos were removed from the PSE6 catalog at some point. You can look at the PSE8 project files now to identify the missing photos. The file name and path is listed in the project file if you desire to fix this up.
c) You can't drag and drop to a new location if the new location does not contain a cataloged photo. This is because you cannot navigate through directories with the organizer's folder view if there are no images in these directories. Simply copy some image to the location where you desire to move the photos to. Now use the organizer "Get Photos" to populate the catalog with this image. This will allow you to navigate to the new location such that you can drag and drop directories as required.
There might be another simpler way (I have not tried this so please be warned):
a) Install the drive and assign a drive letter to it.
b) Move (or copy) the photos to the new drive using the same file hierarchy (i.e. C:\Documents and Settings\<user name>\My Documents\My Pictures\camera\photos\... --> X:\camera\photos\...
c) Mount the new drive to an empty NTFS folder such that the path remains the same as before (i.e. mount the drive to C:\Documents and Settings\<user name>\My Documents\My Pictures\ with the above example). You will need to make sure "My Pictures" is empty before the drive is mounted.
e) In theory this should work for PSE6 or PSE8 so it shouldn't really matter when you do the upgrade. Just make sure that PSE8 sees the logical mapping instead of a physical mapping through the organizers folder view.

Conversion of Photoshop Elements Catalog from 12 to 13 fails

Hello,
On installing Photoshop Elements 13 I attempted to convert my catalog from Photoshop Elements 12. The conversion fails with the following dialog:
I have followed all the steps outlined in this article (Troubleshoot catalog backup, upgrade | Organizer | Elements 6 or later) and still the catalog will not convert. The pse-conversion-log file states the following:
conversion log: Started conversion from C:/ProgramData/Adobe/Elements Organizer/Catalogs/My Catalog to C:/ProgramData/Adobe/Elements Organizer/Catalogs/My Catalog temp 1
copying entire catalog directory...
error: copying C:/ProgramData/Adobe/Elements Organizer/Catalogs/My Catalog failed, aborting
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Language Version: 13.0 (20140831.m.62014)
Current Catalog:
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Free Memory: 12.3GB
Important Drivers / Plug-ins / Libraries:
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Thanks Michel,
When I made the copy of the catalog there was a file that could not be found and copied across, when I looked for it in the original catalog I found it was called b2eeza-18684.xml . So I thought I would try and convert the copy without removing the breeze data folder because this file (which may be corrupt) does not exist in the copy of the catalog. It worked.
One note, in order for the copy of the catalog to work with Find More Catalogs the original catalog needed to be removed from the default location that I had it in. Elements seemed to detect that it and the copy were the same catalog and would not add the copy to the list of catalogs that could be converted. Once I had moved the original catalog to another folder I was able to add the copy.
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Moving catalog

Hi guys, I ran out of space on the hard drive and want to move LR catalog to the external drive and work with it from there - could you pls tell me how to do it right, what files to move etc? Thanks a lot! (I am using a Mac)

Jane,
As far as other options, I would purchase an additional, internal hard drive for your system and just move the images over there (they take up most of the space). With the images separate from the catalog and preview you should get better performance. Hard drives are cheap as well and newer drives fairly easy to install.
As far as moving images ... when moving them using the operating system, LR will not be able to find them but should ask you to locate them once you restart LR after the move. Do not move them while LR is running unless you are moving them within LR itself. I personally would add the new hard drive (either external or new internal), put one image on that hard drive, start LR and and import that image into LR, then FROM WITHIN LR move the images to the new drive by dragging the uppermost directory. It will take quite a while but it will insure that LR always has a connection with your images. Leave the catalog and previews on the existing drive regardless of where you move the images unless you need to take the external hard drive to other computers to work on the catalog from there.
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got myself in a bit of a pickle here...
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Obviously you can just use the Finder to copy the external iPhoto Library to your new Mac Pro. You should change the name of it first so you don't get the two mixed up or accidentally replace one with the other.
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