Moving photos to new drive in Elements

Want to move photos to new drive in Elements 8. Have purchased 11 and want to move the photos before I install Elements 11. What is the best way to go about this. Couldn't find anything new on the forum. I asked this question in 2010 and that's the same answer I found today. Anything new?

You basically select thumbnails in the Organizer and then click:
File >> Move
Then browse to your new location.
It cam be quite slow if you have a large catalog so it may be best to try selecting smaller batches.

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Photoshop Elements 12 question....moving photos to new drive....because old drive full.

I have a external hard drive that is almost full......what is the best way to get photos moved from this drive .....to a new and larger external hard drive?

IceJim32 a écrit:
I would like to move my entire catalogue from one external drive (that is almost full) to a new external drive with more room. I have several drives with back ups of all photos.....so are you saying Move it.........using the Move from the drop down menus and move it from the old to the new drive.....and not restore it from a back up drive to the new drive?
The backup/restore process moves not only the picture files library, but also the catalog.
That's good especially if you want to share catalog and librarty with another computer.
If you prefer the default location for catalogs on your desktop, no problem. Simply use the catalog manager to move the catalog.
The drag and drop solution works:
Organizer: Moving folder trees or branches - Elements Village
(Sorry, I gave a wrong link in my previous post ...)
It's more flexible and reasonably safe. It looks faster, but if you want to be safe and do a backup first, you'll gain nothing.
The problem with moving folders is the same than when you move folder trees from the explorer: be sure to move in an empty master folder to avoid folder names collisions.
If you want the catalog folder in the same external drive as the moved library, be sure to have the catalog folder outside of your library tree.

Elements 12 Question ....Moving files to new drive from old drive.

I am using Elements 12...my external hard drive is almost full with photo files...a 1 TB WD....and I need to get my photo files to a new drive.....a G-Technologies 4 TB external.....What is the best way to do this?.... Restore from a backup drive to the new drive ?...or move from the old drive to the new drive?.....or is there another way?........What are the pluses and minuses of the ways ? Details would be Great. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. Thank You in advance.

IceJim32 a écrit:
I would like to move my entire catalogue from one external drive (that is almost full) to a new external drive with more room. I have several drives with back ups of all photos.....so are you saying Move it.........using the Move from the drop down menus and move it from the old to the new drive.....and not restore it from a back up drive to the new drive?
The backup/restore process moves not only the picture files library, but also the catalog.
That's good especially if you want to share catalog and librarty with another computer.
If you prefer the default location for catalogs on your desktop, no problem. Simply use the catalog manager to move the catalog.
The drag and drop solution works:
Organizer: Moving folder trees or branches - Elements Village
(Sorry, I gave a wrong link in my previous post ...)
It's more flexible and reasonably safe. It looks faster, but if you want to be safe and do a backup first, you'll gain nothing.
The problem with moving folders is the same than when you move folder trees from the explorer: be sure to move in an empty master folder to avoid folder names collisions.
If you want the catalog folder in the same external drive as the moved library, be sure to have the catalog folder outside of your library tree.

Moving Referenced Photos to new Drive

I have my media files on external drives and these are getting full now. My main media drive contains 480GB of files and 380GB of them is my referenced Aperture Library (30K+ pictures and video clips).
For some tests I want to put the data onto newer and bigger drives.
Copying the whole disk in the Finder works well and is done after approx. 2 hours (maybe a bit more).
In Aperture I have to show all files, select them all and choose "Locate Referenced Files...". In the Dialog I choose the location for any one of the 30000+ listed files and search it on the new Drive. Then I'm doing a "Reconnect All".
So far so good. But now one of the most time consuming Aperture Processes starts to work. Unfortunately this is a modal process and I can't do nothing but staring at this slow process.
OMG it is so unbelievable slow.
FOUR hours later the job was done and everything is fine.
Is there something I can do to speed up that task? I mean - has this to be that slow? It takes longer than copying more files in the Finder. Hello?
I'm on hold with my further Drive test because the whole thing takes too long at the moment.
Any suggestions?
(I refreain from using "Relocate Masters" inside Aperture because the Referenced files are spread over the media disk and I want to clone the whole disk outside of Aperture.)

I have just replicated the issue you are having and can confirm that TWO completely different Aperture 3 installations behave exactly as you describe. I have not dug into WHY this no longer works but it does not - volume name, mount point, partition name, device name, everything that comes to mind and meets the eye is identically but the masters remain off-line until you "reconnect'.
I cannot believe that Apple did this on purpose - I can assure you I have done this many many times in the past and it worked fine. If it is a mistake and should work let's hope it gets fixed - if it works like this on purpose I would love to know that possible rationale would make this make any sense whatsoever. This is a big big problem for multivolume libraries.
Does anyone's Aperture 3 installation let them do this?
RB

Moving Pictures to new drive- XP MC/LR 1.1

What if I want to move the photos that have been imported at their location?
IOW, I am on Windows XP MC, I have imported lots of photos (7000+) and have either brought them from their location in
{c:\documents and settings\.....}
...My Documents\My Pictures\2007\0607\Fishing Trip (e.g.)
into LR WITHOUT relocating them into the library.....that is, I left the photos where they were and imported them.....+or+ I imported from a memory card and moved them to a new location inside of My Pictures. I have added keywords, ratings, devlop settings etc.
Now, as I struggle to keep free space on my 250GB drive, I am thinking of relocating all my data including pictures onto a 750GB My Book USB 2.0 drive I bought at Best Buy over the weekend for ~$190. Or may be to a new SATA internal drive...
What do I tell LR? IOW, if I just go ahead and do this in windows, all the files LR is pointing at in its catalog will be gone or broken links- missing photos or whatever.
Do I move them in LR's folders hierarchy itself- I can't imagine- plus most of my 40,000+ images aren't even known to LR.
I'm sure there must be some way to do this properly.....may be exporting a catalog and colocating it with the pics or....??? Stumped.
Some of this seems to be addressed here,
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/view...3736&sliceId=2
....but it's not entirely clear to me and looks like there is much to lose in doing this....may be keywords, collection info etc.
I understand for all my Nikon NEF files the idea of writing the XMP sidecars, but do I have to reimport all the files again when I move them? Will the XMP files have the keywords, ratings etc? I'm still not sure this even answers my request in that I want to move my whole library and all my images to a new hard drive- not burn them to CD/DVD as suggested in the article.

I am not at my PC with lightroom on at the moment so this may be a bit vague. But here goes.
Create a directory where you want your photos to reside. ( this should be the base directory which will hold all your photos.) I am guessing in your case it would be (new drive\My Photos).
place a single photo into the directory.
import the photo into lightroom.
In the folder view you will now see this directory. You should be able to move your existing directories into this folder inside lightroom. e.g. You should hopefully be able to see the directory 2007, which you can just move.
If you can not see you base directories (2007) there is a trick which allows you to see them in the folder view but I have not got the details on me at the moment. Someone else may point you at the trick. Or just place an image in that directory and import it.
Hope this helps.
Niall

PSE6: moved catalog to new drive - inconsistent with original - need help

I have a puzzling occurence since backing up my Photoshop Elements 6 catalog a week or so ago. I wanted to move my catalog/photos on my laptop from the C drive (to get it to mostly software/programs) to the D drive (mostly data and documents) because my C drive was filling up and I have lots of room on my D drive.
Research on how to do this suggested that doing a backup and then a restore on the new drive was the way to go. I had done some cleanup on the C drive catalog beforehand, though not nearly as much as I want to do in the end. Here's what the directories report after the backup/restore (I haven't deleted the C drive catalog yet, and I want to create an additional backup to an external drive before doing so):
catalog on C, created Dec 26 2008
34.8 Gb
15,392 files
457 folders
WINDOWS EXPLORER SAYS 443 ITEMS
catalog on D, created Aug 14 2010
20.6 Gb
10,346 files
211 folders
WINDOWS EXPLORER SAYS 195 ITEMS
Do any of you have any insight into what could be going on with the backup/restore? I searched the photoshop elements forums and the adobe website help, but haven't found an answer.
Thanks for any help you can provide.

Hi There,
Instead of Backup Restore, just use the Move Catalog Feature. Just try the following steps:
1. Launch Organizer
2. Go to File -> Catalog
3. Select Custom location radio button and choose the path on the D drive where you want the catalog to be copied.
4. Then Select the catalog and click the move button
5. Select the Custom Location Radio button and click OK.
With this, your catalog will move to the new location.
If you want to move the files within in the catalog as well, use the File -> Move command.
Hope it helps.
Thanks,
Tarun

How to fix Grub after moving arch to new drive [SOLVED]

I moved my Arch install (/ and /home partitions) to a new drive and I was wondering how to fix Grub so that it knows /boot is on the new drive. What I've done thus far is
create partitions on the new drive and dd my current / and /home partitions to them. The new partitions are bigger than the current ones, so I also re-sized the filesystems to fill the new partitions. My disk/partition setup is the following
/dev/sda1 2048 488392703 488390656 232.9G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT (Storage)
/dev/sdb1 * 2048 206847 204800 100M 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT (System reserved)
/dev/sdb2 206848 102402047 102195200 48.7G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT (Windows 7)
/dev/sdb3 * 102402048 141472127 39070080 18.6G 83 Linux (Current Arch /)
/dev/sdb4 141472128 250069679 108597552 51.8G 83 Linux (Current Arch /home)
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/dev/sdc3 105064448 234441647 129377200 61.7G 83 Linux (New Arch /home)
After I resized the filesystems, I then created a new grub.cfg file (on /dev/sdb3) that is aware of the new Arch system. I can boot to both my current and new Arch installs and run them fine, but ultimately I want to remove the current Arch install so I can make more room for my Windows 7 install. What do I need to do to grub, so it knows to use the new Arch system.
Last edited by tlawren (2014-08-17 21:42:46)

@Xyne - Thanks! Installing grub on my /dev/sdc did the trick. Because I dd'ed my old setup to a new drive, /boot/grub was already populated, so all I had to do was install and configure grub on the new drive via the following.
grub-install --target=i386-pc --recheck --debug /dev/sdx
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
I used os-prober to find the other OS's (Windows 7 and my old Arch). After some testing, I will wipe my old Arch setup and then resize Windows into the free space.

Moving TM to new drive- will old drive format copy to new drive?

Hello,
I'm moving my TM backup to a new (larger) drive using Disc Utility. I've read the posts and know what to do, BUT... if I click "erase" and do a "restore" to move the data, will this make the new drive have the same format as the old drive? I tried a restore without clicking erase, and the operation failed.
Old drive: APM; Mac OS Extended (journaled)
New drive: GUID; Mac OS Extended (journaled)
I'd like to keep the new drive GUID if possible.

Steven Shmerler wrote:
I Googled what GUID means, (globally unique identifier) and it seems to be used in the Windows world and is a 128-bit number associated with components, applications, files or used in databases even cookies, etc.
Could someone explain how this pertains to setting up a new drive for us Mac users using Intel Macs as referenced in this thread?
Does it pertain to the hard drive name we choose or a setting in Disk Utility that I overlooked?
You didn't look far enough. It's also, as posted, the name of the *Partition Map Scheme* used by OSX for Intel Mac internal HDs, and preferred for external HDs attached to an Intel Mac.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUIDPartitionTable
Most drives formatted by or for Windoze use the MBR scheme (Master Boot Record). That's why most problems with new drives as destination for Time Machine backups fail; they must use the GUID *Partition Map Scheme.* See the instructions in item #5 of the Frequently Asked Questions *User Tip* at the top of this forum.

Help moving pictures to new drive, Win XP

My current drive is getting full. I just installed a new drive and would like migrate the photos to that new drive. I am using Windows XP.
Is there any way to perform this operation with Lightroom, and if not how to re-import the photos, without losing the information already entered in Lightroom, like tags

There is a FAQ on this. Top of Forum List.
Don

Moving backups to new drive -- without using disk utility restore

Hello,
I have done some research on this already but I don't believe I've found the solution. I just bought a new media / backup hard drive, and I've moved my itunes library (over 100 GBs) to this drive. Now I have researched how to move the time machine backups to this drive, and know you can't just copy the files.
The instructions I've received tell me to use the disk utility to restore the old time machine backup drive to the new drive, however if I do that won't I lose the iTunes stuff currently on that drive?
Is there an easier way to move that data without me transferring the iTunes back to my laptop, and then restoring through disk utility, and then re-transferring the iTunes again?
thanks,
James

jimumbra wrote:
Hello,
I have done some research on this already but I don't believe I've found the solution. I just bought a new media / backup hard drive, and I've moved my itunes library (over 100 GBs) to this drive. Now I have researched how to move the time machine backups to this drive, and know you can't just copy the files.
The instructions I've received tell me to use the disk utility to restore the old time machine backup drive to the new drive, however if I do that won't I lose the iTunes stuff currently on that drive?
yes, you will. but it is also a VERY bad idea to keep other data on the same partition as the TM backup. first, this data will not be backed up by TM. if you value your itunes data you should have it backed up. also, TM is very buggy and there are too many situations when you need to delete existing TM backups and start from scratch. this should be done by erasing the entire TM partition. you should never delete any TM backups from finder. also, TM will eventually fill up the entire partition with TM backup. it will start bumping up against other data on the partition and you won't be able to put anything else on it.
the upshot is that you should make a separate partition just for TM. don't keep any other data on that partition. you can add a partition to the drive without disturbing your itunes data. type "create new volumes" in disk utility help to see how. however, that's not a good idea IMO as you'll have both the itunes data and the TM backups on the same physical drive. when the drive fails (and it will eventually) you'll loose everything.
Is there an easier way to move that data without me transferring the iTunes back to my laptop, and then restoring through disk utility, and then re-transferring the iTunes again?
thanks,
James

External HD full, moving library to new drive?

I have my iTunes library on a 500GB external drive, which is now full. So I need to move it to a new, larger external drive. I've found lots of articles about moving the library from the internal drive to an external, but haven't found anything that talks about moving from one external drive to another. Is the process basically the same, or is there anything I need to be aware of when moving between external drives? I was think the easiest way would be to name the new drive the same as the old one and copy all the files over from my back up drive. Unfortunately, I gave the old drive the descriptive name "Lacie 500GB", but if it makes things much easier, I might be inclined to use the same name on the new drive even though it will be much bigger.
Thanks.

If you want to make another drive (direct or portable) on your PC the main music location for iTunes, move all song files there, as well as any future imported music from CDs, here is one method (see the links below):
You will maintain your playlists, ratings, comments, etc. This will
i only
move your music folders location,
i NOT
your iTunes program files. It is my opinion that programs (i.e. iTunes) work better when installed on your main hard drive. At the very least, it makes it easier to manage all your programs if they are centrally located on one hard drive (the Windows default standard).
See these links for step-by-step info:
Moving your iTunes Library to a New Hard Drive
MacMuse, "Move iTunes music/Library to new drive", 12:34pm Oct 12, 2004 CDT
If you are moving the music to an external hard drive, after the transfer and to work correctly, the ExHD must be running prior to your opening iTunes. If not, iTunes may reset the location of your music to the default.

Moving files to new drives but keep same drive letter

I need to fix a few things with the drives on my SQL server and was wondering if the following is a valid solution. The two main things are putting the files on drives formatted with 64k blocks (was the default of 4k before and I will be changing to 64k)
and adjust the SCSI ids.
I did a quick test and it seems to work but I’m not sure if there’s any hidden surprises waiting for me.
In a nutshell, this is the procedure I was planning:
- Stop all SQL services
- Add new drives with temporary drive letters
- Use the following command to copy the data over for each drive (folders are the default names created when SQL was installed): robocopy “S:\Program Files” “X:\Program Files” /COPYALL /DCOPY:T /E
- offline old drives
- Rename new drives to the old drive letters
- Reboot the server
Is there anything I’m missing or is that a valid option? Does SQL somehow mark drives in a special way or can my migration be that simple?
Thanks

What you described will work fine. I have done it that way many times.

Need help moving photos to external drive

Hi, all--here's hoping one or more of you Aperture veterans can help.
Here's my situation: I'm not new to photography, but I'm new to Aperture. Just bought 3.3 and still getting to know what it can do. I'm an emigre from iPhoto, and one of the reasons I upgraded within Apple is that I was tired of the non-intuitive nature of PS Elements. I like to take pictures, not spend endless time in the dim glow of a screen digging through sub-menus for stuff, and from what I read, Aperture seemed more intuitive.
But now I've got a seemingly very basic problem that hours of poring over discussion threads and searching through the hundreds of pages of the manual has done little to address with any clarity:
How do I move (not just copy) older photos in projects to external drives, but in such a way that Aperture still keeps track of them, even when the drives are not connected? (The Aperture marketing I read/viewed clearly said Aperture could do this, and I'm running out of space on my MacBook Pro (15" from about 2008, running Lion) with lots of CF cards piling up.)
Info that may help:
-I need to move not just original (imported into iPhoto directly from the camera) photos, but also those I've adjusted in Elements, then re-exported into iPhoto (I would say "and now into Aperture," but as you know, there's no longer an import process b/w iPhoto and Aperture).
-I shoot mostly RAW.
-I have no idea whether the pictures are "Referenced" or "Managed" (for space reasons, I have yet to import any files directly into Aperture; all existing photos are from iPhoto, and if I was given an option when I set up Aperture, I don't now recall it).
-I have external drives with plenty of space to move older pix to (I also have multiple backups, including Time Machine, additional external hard drives, and DVDs)
Can somebody who knows how to do this safely please explain in clear language how to move photos as projects onto external hard drives so that Aperture keeps track of them via viewable thumbnails, even when the photo files themselves live on a hard drive that is not connected at the time?
Thanks in advance!

First things first:
You can easily check if an image is managed or referenced by ctrl-clicking on an image version and selecting "Locate referenced files...". If Aperture says "No Referenced Files", your originals are managed by Aperture and stored within the library itself, otherwise it should show you the location of the original, and give you some options to verify the references and so on. I don't know which method is used when importing from iPhoto.
Now, here's something you need to ask yourself:
Does it make more sense for you to keep the library on your laptop and the originals on an external drive, or does it make more sense to move both the library and the originals to the external drives?
In the first case, you can open and look at the thumbnails, but there's not a whole lot else you can do with your images when the external drive is off line.
If you have vast amounts of originals, spread across multiple drives, it might make sense to keep the library on your laptop and connect whichever external drive you need at the time. However, it might also make more sense to split such a huge library into mutiple libraries, stored with their respective originals (which could be either managed or referenced).
In my case, it makes sense to keep multiple libraries, with managed originals, but your mileage may vary.
Here's a tip that might help you decide: A small library is quicker to navigate and work with than a huge one, although performance has improved vastly with later versions of Aperture.
Once you have decided on the appropriate organization, you can start moving things around (after you've created the appropriate backups):
If your library contains all managed originals already, and you want to move the entire library off to the external drive:Simply drag and drop the library itself (using Finder) to the new location.
If your library use referenced originals, and you want to keep it that way, or your library manages your originals, and you want to start using referenced originals:
Select all your images
Click on the File menu and select Relocate Originals...
Locate the destination for your originals, and pay special attention to the "Subfolder Format" and "Name Format". I'd suggest choosing "Project Name" and "Original File Name" for the two.
Click on Relocate Originals, and twiddle your thumbs while Aperure moves all your originals to the new location.
If your library uses referenced originals, and you wish to let your library manage the originals:
Select all your images
Click on the File menu and select Consolidate Originals...
Decide if you want to Copy or Move the originals into the library. If you're running out of space, it might be best to Move.
Click Ok, and wait for the operation to complete.
(Optional) If you wish to move your entire library to the external drive, drag and drop the library to the new location.
I hope that answers your question.
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Moving Photos to New Computer - Losing My Mind!

Just replaced our old Dell desktop with a shiny new HP. Previously ran PSE 3.0 under Windows XP with the photos residing on one external drive (F:), and backup files on another external drive. The new machine is Windows 7 (64 bit), so I've loaded the trial version of PSE 8. I tried restoring from the backup, which restored the pictures to the Public Pictures folder per my request,but then the converted catalog still pointed to the F: drive to find the photos. When I tried to reconnect, I realized it would take forever (11,000 photos!).
How do I get the restored catalog to point to where the pictures are???

See this FAQ for how to quickly reconnect:
http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/photoshop-elements-faq.htm#_Quickly_reconnecting_large
The Reconnect command is poorly designed and very fussy, so be sure to follow the instructions carefully.
If you can't get it to work, then I recommend starting over: Install PSE 8 on the old machine, convert the catalog from 3 to 8 there, and then use PSE 8's backup/restore to backup the catalog and photos and restore them on the new machine. As you've discovered, trying to change to a new computer, a new version of Windows, and a new version of PSE at the same time is problematic.

Moving photos from external drive to iPhoto '11

OK. I'm going nuts. I recently purchased an iMac and I migrated all of the photos from my old G5 with no problems. All of my photos and their Album structures came along. Now, I also have a lot of different photos on a MacBook that is also running 10.6.6 and iPhoto '11. The MacBook is backed up onto an external drive which I am trying to use to move the photos to the iMac. I have tried what Terrence Devlin suggests. I tried to drag the MacBook iPhoto library into the iMac Pictures folder, but it asks me if I want to replace the existing iPhoto library. I most certainly do not. I don't want to lose anything that is already on the iMac.
I tried manually exporting folders from the external drive by clicking individual albums in iPhoto and "exporting" them to the iMac desktop, but not all of the photos come in the export, no matter which folder I try to export.
Yesterday, before I updated the laptop to iPhoto '11, I created a new iPhoto Library on the iMac and dragged the entire iPhoto Library from the MacBook into that new Library. It worked, however it all came over into one big album and my previous album structure was gone. There are waaaaay too many photos for me to go back through and sort them again. Did that happen because I was going from an older version of iPhoto to a newer version or will it happen again if I drag the MacBook iPhoto Library into a NEW library on the iMac? (I only ask before I try because it took several hours the first time.)
So what do I do? I want all of my photos on the iMac with my existing Album structure. If I have to do it Album by Album fine, but how? Selecting every photo from an album and dragging it to a folder on the desktop doesn't work either. I can always take every photo minus one. Weird.
Thanks,
John

What you want to do is merge the two Libraries? The only way to do this is to use the paid ($20) version of iPhoto Library Manager
I created a new iPhoto Library on the iMac and dragged the entire iPhoto Library from the MacBook into that new Library. It worked, however it all came over into one big album and my previous album structure was gone
Never import one Library to another. Every version and thumbnail is imported like a distinct photo, you lose all your Albums, Keywords etc., the link between Original and Previews is destroyed, the non-destructive editing feature is ruined and so on. In summary: it's mess.
Regards
TD

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