Organizer crashes when moving photos to another directory

Question

Shortly after upgrading (?) from PSE 7 to PSE 8, i discovered that my catalog had become corrupted.  When viewing photos by folder location, many photos are shown as being in an incorrect folder in the directory tree on the left.  The correct location is shown in the Properties panel.  If I try to move the photo to the correct folder by dragging it to the correct folder PSE crashes in both PSE 7 and PSE 8.
I tried to repair the catalog (File/Catalog/Repair), but no problems were found or fixed.
Any other ideas other than removing the photos from the catalog and re cataloging them?  If I do that, will I loose tags, comments, dates, etc?
Thanks, Don

Answer 1

http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/photoshop-elements-faq.htm#_Folder_Location_view
The easiest solution is to stop using Folder Location View. Use tags and metadata to find photos.
Re-importing photos into the catalog is not recommended, as you will lose all of your version sets, stacks, collections, creations, and a few other things. Tags, captions and notes are only available upon re-import if you tell PSE to write them to the files before you do the re-import (and because of a bug in PSE, this is not a reliable operation, especially if you have Raw photos)