Problem after moving "Pictures" to a different drive.

Windows Vista. Photoshop Elements 4.0.
I, foolishly it seems, moved my Pictures folder from c drive to d drive. There are several thousand pictures.
When I then started Photoshop Organiser the program immediately went in to a search . While doing this the priogram would not accept any commands and could only be closed through Task Manager. I left it running for several hours but there was no change. I am not even sure that it was doing anything - there didn't appear to be any processor activity. But if it was searching through the whole computer for each photo in turn this could take weeks!
I then moved the pictures folder back to its original location. This did not solve the problem. The program just went into this endless search.
I then uninstalled the program and reinstalled it assuming that with a clean sheet I could point the program to my pictures folder and all would be well. However this didn't work. As soon as I started the program it went into this endless search again! I noticed that it had picked up my Collections from the previous installation so I guess there must be some data or index files somewhere that were not deleted in the uninstall and told the program to look for my pictures.
Any suggestions as to what I can do now?

PSE 4 is not supported on Vista. PSE 5 and above are. That may be part of your problem.
Did you move the pictures folder to precisely its original location? Are the path names exactly the same? I would expect that moving the folder back would solve the problem.
If you are familiar with MS Access you can use that to edit your .psa file and change drive letters. I believe Open Office has a database program that will work also.
Did you do a file>catalog>recover at any point? That often clears up catalog problems.

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Jan9368 wrote:
A few questions
When I drag and drop my pictures am I looking at my pictures in elements organizer?
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You could move only the upper level 'Pictures' folder of Win7 in a single step, but you'll feel more secure by doing this in several moves, since moving a big amount of files takes a long time (not longer than a move via the explorer, moving a library of 150 GB like mine requires maybe 2 hours...)
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MY CARD IS THE:
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Are you sure you have enabled viewing 'hidden files' in the explorer ?
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gardener179 wrote:
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Lion - Disk Utility - https://discussions.apple.com/message/16925522 - repairing your drive using Disk Utility on Lion's recovery partition.

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Jim:
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Do you Twango?
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(this link just gives a 'post not found page: http://blogs.technet.com/b/sbs/archive/2009/09/23/how-to-move-sdfssdfdf-content-and-database-files-to-a-different-partition.aspx)
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Thank you in advance for your time!
Please see the screenshot below

Hi,
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(this link just gives a 'post not found page:http://blogs.technet.com/b/sbs/archive/2009/09/23/how-to-move-sdfssdfdf-content-and-database-files-to-a-different-partition.aspx)
Please refer to following article and check if you have moved WSUS Content and Databases correctly.
How
to Move WSUS Content and Database Files to a Different Volume
Meanwhile, please run
SBS BPA and fix relevant issues that BPA tool can find. Then monitor the result.
If this issue still exists, you may consider that repair Windows Server Update Services. Please refer to following
TechNet article.
Repair Windows Server Update Services
If any update, please feel free to let me know.
Hope this helps.
Best regards,
Justin Gu

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Hi J,
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I have moved my itunes files numerous times to new computers as I get one. This last time I had everything running off an external drive, to conserve hard drive space on computer and hopefully from computer failure. I need to move library over to new computer and get away from old computer that has Windows XP to the computer with windows 7. After installing itunes on new computer and plugging in external to new computer, it finds all music and movies, etc., however, I can't seem to find the file that has the playlist info, play count, and to see where the backups of my iphone(s) are. I have been working at this for days to no avail. It may be right in front of my face but can't see where to find it. HELP!!!!

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When I try that it tells me it can't be done because of copywrite protection issues.
What is the exact error message that you're getting?

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