Moving PSE 8 to a new PC

Question

I have to tranfer all my pictures, already catalogued on PSE8 to a new PC.
I will use a external HD.
The instructions by Bab O I have found in the forum still apply?
Thank you for help
Giorgio
"First, information on the Elements Catalog location
If you have used the default PSE 3 Catalog name and location, you most probably will find it as
Filename of My Catalog.psa in folder
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Adobe\Catalogs
Warning: This folder structure has a Windows Hidden Folder, so you must enable Viewing and Searching of Windows Hidden Folders in order to find your Catalog.
Well, the "fairly close" could be a bit of a nuisance if you use the CDs to copy to the new PC.
Elements stores the full Windows path name for the photo location - drive letter and entire folder tree including the User name if within the My Documents.
If your hard driver letter and the Windows Userid will be the same on the new system, then I would use an External Disk Drive (or a network connected drive) to copy the photo file tree structure(s) from the old PC to the new PC.
Then also copy the Catalog (location described above) and the folder contents under the "Catalog Folders" folder that will be near the location of the My Catalog.psa catalog file.
----- if you do want to use the CDs to copy the folder tree structures, then it sounds like most photo locations will be ok (if drive letter and Windows userid are the same) but some photos will need to be Reconnected (so the catalog knows their current location). Reconnecting large numbers of photo files in PSE 3 has been problematic for some people (but not all).
----- if your hard drive letter or Windows userid (if photos are in My Documents) will be different, then you can use an Elements Backup on the old PC and Elements Restore on the new PC. Then the catalog will have the correct location for the photo files. But sometimes the top level folder structure does not exactly duplicate what you had on the old PC; yet the significant lower levels should be OK.
In any case the Elements catalog database can be modified with Access (even by someone else on another PC) to change folder paths for the photo locations.
Barb O "

Answer 1

Barbara B. wrote:
Also see:
http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/photoshop-elements-faq.htm#_Move_y our_photos_1
Incidentally, PSE 8 doesn't use access, but a version of SQLite instead.
I agree with that recommendation and will even say that it is better to ignore my older writeup that you located by searching because many considerations have changed between PSE 3 (for which mine was written) and the PSE 8 that you are currently using. 
One of the considerations that people currently moving to a new PC may have is that their Windows operating system may be different on the new PC than it was on the old PC.  At the time PSE 3 was the most recent version, Windows XP was used by almost everyone.  Therefore my writeup did not address operating system differences.
Barb O