Organizer catalog on network

I have my catalog on my computer which is attached to our home network. I want my husband to be able to access this catalog from his computer. I have PSE7 installed on both computers. When I try to open the catalog on his computer I can get to the folder in doc & setting/all users/appl data/adobe/catalog but there is no catalog there that I can access.
We are using Windows XP
Patt Ricketts

Pat,
Be sure youre navigating to the right folder. Look in Help > System Info for the location of the catalog folder, and then on the other computer, navigate to that folders parent. Can you navigate to the catalog folder using Windows Explorer?
Beware, however, that you may need to configure your catalog specially to allow it to be accessed from over the network and that performance may not be acceptable. See this FAQ:
http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/photoshopelements-6-7-faq.htm#_Storing_the_catalog

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Can I Put My Organizer Catalog On A Net Work Drive An Share It With Two Computers?

PhotoShop Elements 11, Running Under Windows 7 Professional
The second system would be Running Windows 8.1
It would be nice if I could share the Organizer Catalog between the two systems.
If that does not work, I can back the Catalog up on the Network Drive from the primary system (Running Windows 7) and then download it to the second system (Running Windows 8) since production would take place on the Windows 7 system. It would just be nice to always have both systems "in sync".

I guess that is not a surprise. Multiple systems accessing a database at the same time is difficult to manage.
I will choose to make frequent back-up on the network drive and then load those backups on the secondary computer. This restricts the secondary computer from doing any work that needs to be retained but, that is OK.
Thanks for your answer.

I cannot create a catalog because everywhere I try on my computer, it comes up with cannot Lightroom cannot create a catalog on network volumes. And is there any way to contact Adobe directly? Would you be able to give me a phone number and/or email add

I cannot create a catalog because everywhere I try on my computer, it comes up with cannot Lightroom cannot create a catalog on network volumes. And is there any way to contact Adobe directly? Would you be able to give me a phone number and/or email address?@@

The short and direct answer to your question about catalogs on a network drive is that you can't do that. The catalog must reside on a local drive.
Here is a link to a list of telephone numbers. Choose one that is appropriate:
Adobe Connect Support phone numbers

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Update to Elements 9.0.3 messed up Organizer Catalog

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Sorry, at 73, figuring out how to do screen shots is a little beyond my experience. I will try to clarify my situation with words.
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Converting Organizer Catalog created for version 8 to Elements 11 errors out. Help?

The conversion of the Organizer Catalog version 8 to use with Elements 11 errors out. It asked me to repair the old catalog. I went back to 8, repaired it and optmized it as other articles mentioned, and still did not work. would somebody please help me?

It’s often a question of needing full permission settings and the easiest way to make it work is from an administrators account directly from the desktop which bypasses the welcome screen background processes.
Make a shortcut for organizer as follows:
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Can anyone demystify the PSE Organizer catalog backup options?

I need to backup my catalog--preferably just my catalog, not all my pictures (the picture files themselves are already backed up). More accurately, I would like my automated online backup service (Carbonite) to back up my PSE Organizer catalog for me, just as it has already backed up my pictures. But the catalog is in some caddywompus location that Carbonite doesn't back up by default. I think I can manually override Carbonite's default settings and tell it to back that location up anyway, if I only knew where and what files to look for.
If I click on Help > System Info..., PSE tells me my catalog is located in C:\ProgramData\Adobe\Elements Organizer\Catalogs\clayscatalog. It doesn't go all the way to the file level, just down to that last folder, which shares the name of my catalog. But I have no idea which file inside of that folder is my catalog, or what to backup. Inside that folder called clayscatalog, there are the following items:
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First, short answer : the catalog consists in the whole folder you found. All those files are used in the organizer, but the .cache files which may have a big size will be regenerated by the organizer if they are deleted. The problem is this operation may be very long, so you will be better if you save everything;
If you use the backup and restore feature in the Organizer, you'll only have only to tell the restore process where your backup (of everything, files and folders) is located.
http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/photoshop-elements-faq.htm#_Backing_up_your

How many photos are in Organizer Catalog

How many photos are in my Organizer Catalog?

Sorry if you already know this but I feel it is worth repeating. There are no photos "in" the organizer - the photos are where you put them or have told the organizer/editor to put them.
The organizer database only contains links to your photos which is why you should NOT rename, delete or move a photo by external applications like Windows Explorer of Finder. The organizer does hold a small preview image of very low quality which it uses in the grid view.
If you want to know how many photos have been cataloged, then try going into the thumbnail grid view and ensure that all images are being viewed - i.e. no Back button or Show All button at the top of the grid. There is usually a status line at the bottom of the window which contains a count of images.
If you tell us which operating system you are running on and which version of Photoshop Elements you have, we may be able to help you more.
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Moving the organizer catalog to a new computer

I am upgrading from Photoshop Elements 9 to version 12 and loading it onto a new computer running Windows 8.2. To move the Organizer Catalog I have tried several time to create a backup on an external hard drive from version 9 so i can restore it on the new computer with the upgraded software. Each time i run the backup the process stops and displays an error message "Error encountered while writing files". This occurs when the process is approximately 75% complete. There are 12,326 items in the catalog, the estimated "media size" needed it 142,891.30 MB, i have 339 GB of free space on the external hard drive. Any recommendations on how to proceed?

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Are there practical limits on elements organizer catalog size?

I have 90K items in my PSE11 organizer catalog. I'm running Win8 and I'm getting nervious that catalog size will become an issue. Backing up the catalog is cumbersome since it is 337G. If I need to break it up into smaller pieces, what is the best way to do this? Is there a bridge or link between catalogs? Thanks

See:
http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/photoshop-elements-faq.htm#_Limits_on_the
and:
http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/photoshop-elements-faq.htm#_Splitting_and_rearranging
and:
http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/photoshop-elements-faq.htm#_Merging_Catalogs
The only real problem with big catalogs is what you have found : it's long and tedious to do backups. From the above links you can see that it's a bad idea to split catalogs, unless there is nothing common within them. Contrary to Lightroom, the organizer offers no satisfactory solution to merge catalogs. And the size of the catalog has no real impact on the speed of your organizing.
My suggestion would be to think about alternative backup procedures : anyway, if you want to upgrade to Lightroom, you'll have to choose your own backup system for picture files. LR only offers backups for the catalogs (database).
- Once you know where your big catalog is stored (menu help / system info) it's easy to create a desktop shortcut so that you can save the catalog itself. That's very quick compared to the backup of all your files (several hours).
- Consider using PSE incremental backups. I am not fond of them, but they are acceptable if you master the process : they save the database fully each time and let you restore to a given backup sesssion. Many users rely on incremental backups without understanding the process and are unable to do a complete restore in case of a big problem.
- Consider using external backup tools (as if you were with Lightroom). They can be easier and they offer automatic and periodic backup workflows. I am using Synctoy with Win7 and do periodic clones of my drives with Acronis
- Continue to use the integrated backup procedure when you have to change OS, computer, drives... and migrate all your pictures and catalog.

Moving part of a catalog to network drive.

I need some good advice for a catalog of 13k+ photos that I'm trying to clean up. I'm using Elements 7, I have purchased Elements 11, and am planning to install it soon. Part of my photos are physically located on my hard drive, and part are on a network drive mapped as J:. Elements finds these photos on J: but I don't think that the Elements Catalog is aware that J: is a network drive/removable drive. It looks for them every time I open Elements, making the program very slow to start up. Should I use the "move to removable drive" to move these photos? How will Elements treat these photos that have been sent to a removable disk? Will I still be able to see thumbnails of the photos and search through my tags for them? If I copy my photos to a new drive, but still call that drive J: will Elements be able to find them? And finally, if I perform this "move to removable disk" task, should I do it now with Elements 7 or update to Elements 11 first? Please help. Joanne

Valkyrie Anne wrote:
Part of my photos are physically located on my hard drive, and part are on a network drive mapped as J:. Elements finds these photos on J: but I don't think that the Elements Catalog is aware that J: is a network drive/removable drive. It looks for them every time I open Elements, making the program very slow to start up. Joanne
If the Organizer is slow to start and seems to be searching, you should check two things:
- that you have not set the 'watched folders' service to look at the network drive (file/watched folders menu)
- that in the preferences, files, you don't have checked automatic search and reconnection.
If you can access your files on the network drive from the organizer and see the thumbnails, no need to worry. You can move files from your internal drive to and from the network one by the file / move menu or by dragging and dropping folders in folder view. The organizer should not consider the network drive differently from an external USB drive : if such a drive is not physically connected, you'll get 'missing files'. Only the thumbnails which are stored in the catalog will show. It's different from files on a CD/DVD : if they are not connected, you'll get an offline media warning.
Only the catalog itself (the database) cannot be stored on a network drive; however it can be stored on an USB external drive.
If you want to upgrade to PSE11, be sure to make a full backup on a second external drive (such USB drives are affordable today). Note that from that backup, you are able to restore the files not only on their original location, but also in custom location, for instance in the internal drive of another computer (even if the original files are scattered over several internal or external drives).
If you install PSE11 on your present computer, you should be prompted to convert the existing catalog(s) to the new PSE11 format without having any files or folders to move or copy. That conversion does not change anything to your present PSE7 catalog, which is still working as before.

How can I rebuild my Organizer catalog in Premiere Elements?

The Organizer keeps a catalog of all the media files on your system. In most cases, it will update automatically.
You can also manually update its files by locating the files with broken links (They'll be displaying a "refresh" symbol, red and green arrows in a circle). To update or remove these links, open the full-feature Organizer in Premiere Elements by clicking on the Tagging button under the Organize tab. Then locate the broken link icons, right-click on each and choose the option to update (You'll then be prompted to browse to the file's location) or delete the thumbnail.
As a last resort, you can simply remove the current catalog, forcing Premiere Elements and Photoshop Elements to rebuild it.
To do this, go to C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Adobe\Photoshop Elements\Catalogs\ (In Vista go to C:\ProgramData\Adobe\Photoshop Elements\Catalogs\)and change the name of the folder "My Catalog" to "Old catalog". When you relaunch the program(s), they will recreate the catalog based on the media it locates on your drive(s).

Are you manually copying the .lrcat file from one place to another or are you relying on LR’s backup function to do this? I would do it manually just to be sure what you’re doing and check the timestamp and size of the copied file and make sure it is the same as the catalog you just copied from.
Also, how are you copying the file from your house to your friend’s house? Are your computers networked together, somehow, or are you using a thumbdrive/flashdrive, or is the catalog stored on an external USB drive that you copy across?
How are you opening the catalog at your friend’s house, by double-clicking on it, or are you just starting LR and expecting it to remember what catalog to open?
Are these catalogs on the same drive letter at your friends house, either C: or another drive that you’ve configured to be the same drive letter?
To perfect your process, I’d use a catalog with just one photo in it that you adjust each time in some way that is obvious, and see if you can get that to work and once you are confident with that small catalog, do the large one.
A final point of clarification, by LR catalog you are referring to a single large file name yourcatalogname.lrcat, right, and that file is not located in a Backups folder? You can check the locaton of your catalog file by using LR / Preferences / Catalog Settings / General tab and the first line in the Information section shows the folder where your catalog resides.

How do I update my old Organizer catalog for a new version of the program?

When you install a new versiobn of the program and start the Organizer, it will usually give you a pop-up asking if you want to convert the catalog from a previous version. However, if that tool doesn't automatically launch, contributor Barb O offers this manual solution:
Go to File menu Catalog command and you will see a button for Convert. Click that convert button to start the catalog conversion process manually.
Note that IF you have more than one catalog, each one converts separately.
BEFORE you start your new program, go to your old Organizer's catalog and select:
-- Catalog > Repair
-- File > Reconnect > All Missing Files
-- Catalog > Repair (again)
The logic here is that a "cleaned up" prior version catalog is less likely to have problems during the upgrade process.

I recommend you ask that in the PSE forum. I'm sure there is some import/ export hocuspocus involved...
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