Moving Folders to PSE 8

How do you move folders of pictures (not in other versions of PSE) to PSE 8. I am able to convert catalogs, however I don't know how to simply import all the pictures I have in folders to PSE. Thank you so much for any help.
Una

In the Organizer, File->Get PHotos
or
drag and drop the folders into the PSE Organizer

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Moving folders in Lightroom - lost all my pictures!

Hi,
I'm hoping someone can help me recover my files, although something tells me they are gone for good.
I keep my lightroom catalog and files in my external hard drive, but my HD is old and it was getting full, so I bought a new one to split my work and personal files.
I started by moving my work lightroom catalog, which went fine. Next step was to move my work folders from the old HD to the new HD. I thought the best way to do this was through lightroom, so as to avoid the 'missing file' problem. I have my folders organised by year, so I started with my 2012 folder, containing thousands of pictures from that year. I simply dragged the 2012 folder from the old HD to the new HD and waited (a very long time) for the move to finish.
When it finished, it came up with an error message saying some files couldn't be moved, and listed the files that couldn't be moved. It seemed like a lot of files, and they were grouped as 1-100, 101-200, 201-300, etc. So I clicked on the 2012 folder and all the sub-folders were there, named correctly, but they were empty. I then went to Finder on my Macbook to look for the files and the 2012 sub-folders were empty!
The 2012 folder and its sub-folders are present on both the old and the new HDs, but all my pictures are gone from both HDs.
I have no idea how this happened and what I can do to fix this. How can Lightroom delete my pictures when all I was doing was moving them to a new HD? And why did it move the folders and sub-folders correctly, but the pictures are gone? Any help will be much appreciated!
All I know is I'm NEVER moving folders inside Lightroom again!
Thanks!

Hello,
did you look in the trashcan? LR normally move images to the trashcan.
You can try some recovery program and try to rescue some images. I like PhotoRec but there may better (comercial) programs. After recovery you may try to relink the lightroom catalog to the files in your filesystem. I wrote an article in my blog how to do so in my blog for an other forum post. May be this may help you to loose not all of you images (in case you do not have a backup - but we all have ).

Problem with missing files after moving folders around

Hi,
I keep my music files manually organized. This is mostly because I have a LOT of music and I don't want to take up all the space on my MBP HD. So my music is split up between 2 external drives and the MBP drive.
I was moving around some folders since I wanted to reorganize my music folders, and iTunes can't seem to find the files anymore, and in order to fix it I see I need to find each and every file I moved (which is really not practical).
I tried editing the "iTunes Music Library.xml" file, but it seems to get rebuilt from some other place where this information is stored.
I also tried putting aliases in the old folders' locations pointing to the new ones (iTunes kept saying the files are missing)
Is there any way to simplify the process of moving folders?? This is really strange that such a feature is missing.
Thanks
Yaron

If you have the 'keep' option enabled and let iTunes do the work - take a sound track album as an example - that has various artists and you didn't tell iTunes that the album was a compilation album - then iTunes will put all the tunes into into the iTunes Music folder as Artist>Album>Song - if you have the compilation option enabled for the tunes on that same album - iTunes will nest it as iTunes Music>Compilation>Album>Song. This helps reduce the clutter in the iTunes Music folder with a thousand artists and only one tune for that artist.
With the 'keep' option selected iTunes will move tunes automatically within the iTunes Music folder. Since iTunes moved the files it can keep track of the links.
To create a second library launch iTunes with the 'option' key down and follow the dialog box instructions. I have a 'Master iTunes Library' on my internal HD and several ext HD's with other libraries which I give unique names i.e.: Really Big Music. I give the library data base file its' own unique name so I don't accidentally erase the wrong file. I also keep all the files that you would normally see for an iTunes library on the ext HD (iTunes library. .xml, art work etc.,). If you are into lots of movies and TV Shows you could create a library on and ext HD with only video content and name it accordingly. You would keep all the files for that library including the library 'management' files on the ext HD in the same nesting as you would find on your internal HD.
This strategy works for me. I tried to manage the files by myself at one point and just had to many problems so I decided to not fight City Hall and go with the flow and it works for me.
MJ

Glitch when moving folders on my desktop

When moving folders around on my desktop, there are some positions on the grid that act "glitchy". When trying to drop a folder in some places, it will revert the folder back to its original position on the desktop or will push it to another position on the desktop. It's as if there is a hidden file on the position I want to move the folder to when there isn't. What's going on?

1. Control (right) click on your desktop and open desktop settings.
2. Check to make sure that the Icon size is set somewhat lower than the Grid spacing.

PSE 7 - Moving Folders

I need to move my 4 picture folders I have on my C:Drive over to my External F:Drive as I am running out of disk space on my C:Drive. Can someone please tell me how I can do this?, as I am a newbie, I really do not understand the procedure.Thank You.

http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/photoshopelements-6-7-faq.htm#_Move_your_photos

Pathway problem when moving files in PSE

I use PSE 6.0 and recently had to reload my operating system (OS). After reloading my OS I reinstalled PSE 6.0 and restored my catalog to a new location on my hard drive. I had my catalog backed up onto DVD's. The restore worked and I went to link missing photos, b/c I did the PSE 'no no' and moved files outside of the PSE program. It appeared that the missing links were reconnected. I started to spot-check some of the file property locations and noticed that many of the photo properties had the restore location that I restored the catalog to. I did not want to keep the photo in this location, so I went to move these folders and files to my external drive where I keep my pictures (I have two drives: one for video and one for photos). When I try to move the files in PSE to my external drive it moves them to my external video drive instead. The problem is that when I follow the pathway it moved them to, I do not have this link on my video drive. The pathway, however, is identical to my photo pathway. For example. I have a picture with the property of C:/Documents and Settings/Amy/My Documents/Restore Adobe PSE 100111/My Picture Downloads/Pella Trip. I tried to move this file to my external K drive (which is my photo drive). In PSE I click on file then move then browse and moved the file to K:Micah's camera photos/2011/May/2011/05 07. In PSE when I go to verify that the file was moved to that drive, instead in properties it tells me that the file location is M (my video external drive) and lists the pathway as M:Micah's camera photos/2011/May/2011/05 07. When I go to START and click on that external drive to follow the pathway to find the photo, it is not on M. M does not even have the pathway to follow as I do not even have M:Micah's camera in that location. I have tried disconnecting my external drive M and tried to save the file from the C location to my K drive and then the file becomes an offline file and I have another problem. So then I tried to reconnect that particular file listed on M but since it's not really on M, I follow the K pathway name and find the file where I requested it to be saved which was K:Micah's camera photos/2011/May/2011/05 07. When I find the file and click on reconnect I get the message that the file already exists in the catalog. Then in the dialog box it says M:Micha's camera photos/2011/May/2011/05 07 was not connected to K:Micah's camera photos/2011/May/2011/05 07. When I click on ok to exit the dialog box my photo is then missing. I then can't do anything with it. The pathway in PSE won't move it b/c I can't link it. It says the file is on my M drive, but it really isn't. I don't know what to do next. I would like to move my photo files/folders from C (my hard drive) to K (my external photo drive). I do not know why PSE is moving them to M (my video drive) which doesn't take me to that file. I have searched the forums but have found no problems similar to this. I'm not sure what to do to fix this. Sorry this got so long...Can anyone help me?

Highlighting a batch of images and dragging from the PSE9 Media Browser to a folder in the left hand panel, located on external HDD works fine although I’m using Vista and Windows 7 and automatically invokes the elements Move procedure.
Make sure the new folder has a blue icon to indicate it is being managed in Organizer. If not right click on the folder and choose Import to Organizer.

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Problem moving folders with Lightroom 4.4 on Mac OS 10.7.5

I am trying to move a folder of recently edited files from my desktop to an external drive where I keep all my processed files using Lightroom but I keep getting a message that the folder can not be moved.
If I try to create a new folder on the external drive using Lightroom I get a message saying the folder could not be created.
This has just happened for the first time. I have never had issues with this in the past and have successfully moved many folders over the years.
I tried rebooting Lightroom to no avail.
Any suggestions?

Make sure you have write permissions on the destination disk. You may need to repair permissions.

Problem with moving folders around

I was trying to move folder A into folder B (in folder B, there is already a folder named A). And then i realized that the folder A originally in folder B is entirely replaced by the new folder A -- everything in the old folder A is gone. Is it possible to change this behavior?

Hi, haginile.
You probably misread the warning dialog telling you that there already was another "Folder A" in Folder B and asking you if you wanted to replace the existing one with the one you were attempting to copy into Folder B. The dialog would have read:An item named "Folder A" already exists in this location.
Do you want to replace it with the one you are moving?"The warning dialog has two buttons, Stop and Replace: the former stops the move or copy action, the latter replaces the existing Folder A within Folder B with the Folder A you are attempting to move or copy to Folder B. Looks like you selected Replace.
This behavior cannot be changed. I've heard some Windows users complain about this. As I understand it, Windows either offers options or automatically syncs the changes between the folders, whereas Mac OS X performs a true replacement if you select Replace in the warning dialog noted above.
Good luck!
Dr. Smoke
Author: Troubleshooting Mac® OS X
EDIT: I see Matthew typed a bit faster than I, but I'll leave this answer as it also provides more detail concerning why this happened and that Mac OS X is working as designed.

Moving folders or pictures to trash

I am a first time user of Lightroom 2.1 (Mac). Right now to remove the folders or pictures to trash I manually drag the icons to trash. Then in the Library Panel I highlight the affected grayed out folders or pictures and use the contextual manual and select the Remove command. Is there an easier way to do this because if I used the Remove command only without actually moving the affected files to Trash they would still be on my hard drive.
Also to import new folders and pictures into Lightroom I first actually copy them to my Lightroom catalog folder. Then I click on the Import button in the Library Panel and browse and select the just copied files. Is this the right way to make certain that the pictures actually get moved to the LR catalog folder?
Thanks.
David

David-
Try this: select a photo you want to delete, hit the Delete key, then note the dialog. You need to be in Folder view, however, not collections.
Your method for Importing is fine, but there are many other ways to achieve that.

Moving My Catalog PSE 13

Ok I hope someone can assist me. So I used the Move/Copy to another drive I moved all of my pictures using this command and now I have a mess. I use to have all of pictures neatly tucked away in individual folders. I needed to free up some space on my hard drive. Now all of my photos or at least most of them moved to the external hard drive but now I don't have any folders and there still are many pictures still remaining on Hard Drive. To make matters worse I thought I would do a back to the same external drive but I forgot to make a separate folder and now I have a mess. If anyone has a solution for this it would be greatly appreciated.

KJSMN a écrit:
Ok I hope someone can assist me. So I used the Move/Copy to another drive I moved all of my pictures using this command and now I have a mess. I use to have all of pictures neatly tucked away in individual folders. I needed to free up some space on my hard drive. Now all of my photos or at least most of them moved to the external hard drive but now I don't have any folders and there still are many pictures still remaining on Hard Drive.
The command 'Copy/move' is similar the 'Export' command. It works on individual files, not on folder trees or branches. The result always gets into the folder you have chosen.
What you want to do is to 'move' a folder tree or a part of it to another location. It's not moving the catalog (the database where the details and location on the drive of the pictures are kept) it's moving the pictures themselves while keeping their structure in the Explorer/Finder. I'd call that moving a 'library' or part of a library.
Keep in mind that 'moving' is only an image, a metaphor in computer language. You really first Copy something somewhere, then you Delete the original files.
How to do this library move ? If you do it from the Explorer/Finder by drag and drop or the menu, that seems easy, but the catalog is not updated, so you'll have to 'reconnect' your files. If you do it by small batches, that can work well.
It's recommended to do it from the Organizer itself. In the left folders panel, depending on the Elements version, you show the folder tree just like in the explorer/finder. You drag and drop, and the Organizer updates the path for the files in the catalog database.
Organizer: Moving folder trees or branches - Elements Village
To make matters worse I thought I would do a back to the same external drive but I forgot to make a separate folder and now I have a mess. If anyone has a solution for this it would be greatly appreciated.
You should deal with that problem first. Your backup has stored a number of copies of your files in a wrong folder, and you want to delete them. Most of those files begin by B00... It's relatively easy to find them and to delete them. That should recover most of the space on your drive.
The problem you have left now is that you have lost your folder tree structure. If you had no backup, there is no way to restore it exactly. It's possible to use other data in the catalog to create a new folder structure based on dates (recorded from exif in the picture files), on albums or themes like events or places. You select pictures corresponding to a specific empty folder and you move them there.
My advice is to keep the new structure simple since that does not add any advantage to using the catalog and its virtual organization of categories and keywords.

Moving computer in PSE 7

We moved our files to a new computer but did not back up our catalog in PSE. Now we can't access the pictures on the new pc, but files are all there. Any suggestions on what we can do?
Thanks

Ideally you should have used the backup and restore process available within Organizer, starting on the old computer. See this link for further information relating to PSE6 and later versions:
http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop-elements/kb/backup-restore-move-catalog-photoshop.html

Problems moving folders to external drive on a Mac

I am having the hardest time moving pictures in lightroom to an external drive. I can select pictures and move them one by one, or in bulk, but if I select a folder of pictures and drag and drop them to an external drive, they won't move. It appears they have moved, but when I select the picture, and select show in finder, it shows they are being copied from my MASTER drive with pictures to my SSD boot drive root.
I have an SSD boot, a MASTER with all the pictures, an SSD scratch with the catalog, and an external drive for old pictures all running in Yosemite, Lightroom 5.7, on a Mac Pro.
Is there a way to reset Lightroom settings so I can start from scratch? Or is it possible it could be a permissions error. I tried setting all permissions on all drives to Read & Write for all folders and files with no luck.

You can start from scratch by creating a new catalog from the menu:
File >> New catalog
Choose a new name for the catalog and save. When the empty calalog launches you are ready to import.
A safer way to move folders is to drag your folder using Finder to the external hard drive. That will make a copy of the folder and files. Then in LR you right-click (or control-click) on the folder name in the left-hand panel and choose update folder location. Navigate to the external drive location and LR will re-link everything automatically. The beauty of this method is that you can ensure everything is OK before deleting the folder from your internal drive.

Robohelp 9.0.1.232 crashes when moving folders

The problem:
RH9 has started to crash after i move about the 2nd folder of topics. it can be 1 or more topics in the folder and it still crashes.
Upon restart the old location contains the original topics but with broken links; the new location contains just the moved and empty folder.
In Windows (on disk) the new location contains the correct files, but requires me to "import" the files or use "tools-->resolve broken links" to fix
random folders have been removed from RH9 - but exist on disk
Steps taken:
uninstalled RH7, RH8 & RH9 completely (as RH9 has no "repair" feature which is disheartenting)
Re-installed RH9
Updated to latest version available on Adobe's site
Running correct Service Pack
Questions:
Is there a Preferences file I could trash and replace?
Has anyone else had this problem?
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
--bill

Hello again
Keep in mind that I've been using RoboHelp for about 20 years. So with that in mind, it's self evident that I'm very fond of working a different way. When RoboHelp 7 was introduced, it shipped with a new "view" of things that was unfamiliar. This was called "Global view". Fortunately, the development team provided a "Classic" view. That's the view I prefer.
Call me a stodgy old c00t if you want, but I find this view vastly simpler to use than the "new and improved" globall view.
Additionally, I believe the default setting for the dialog you see when clicking the funnel icon is to have all options enabled.
Cheers... Rick
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Problems by moving folders - lost pictures

Using LR 4.4 on OS X 10.7.5
I have transferred some folders from my internal drive to an external (FW) drive. Whereas most of the transfer worked fine, I had the following problems:
- one folder (at least) completely disappeared from LR. The files were moved to the new HDD (I can see them in Finder), an empty folder remains in LR under the "old" drive and there is nothing in LR at the new position.
- an empty structure remained at the location of the old files
- on some folders, I had the message "could not complete the folder move..." and only part of the pictures (or none at all) were moved.
I am at a lost and quite disappointed by the whole process...

It's ok, there is no damage in term of lost pictures. They are still somewhere to be found in the Finder. They just disappeared from LR (and yes, I have backups if needed ;-))
I would just want to be able to correctly move everything within LR and still see all my files in the catalog without needing to import them again (and thus loosing the processing, ...)

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