Problems trying to reconnect files in PE10 organizer
I have PE10 on a Windows 7 computer. I have a library of 11,000 images. Somehow last weekend, the Catalog converted the drive letter on all the paths of all the image files to the wrong letter. Otherwise, the paths and filenames are fine.
So I'm trying to Reconnect files. Being cautious, I am starting with selecting a few files and doing File-->Reconnect-->Missing File. However, it doesn't work. I've done about 10-15 groups at this point. It starts a laborious search thru my directory files. About 25-30% of the time, PE10 fails. I get a pop-up error dialog that says "Elements 10 Organizer has stopped working." with only one button that says "Close Program". When it doesn't fail, it goes to the end of the search (I presume), and then pops up the window to manually search for a file. So it fails to find the right file(s), but in the manual window I can easily find the right file and it reconnects right away.
I am reluctant to try File-->Reconnect-->All Missing Files. Reason: On the third group I did above, I got cocky and tried to do 1000 files at once. That was the first time it bombed, and it trashed the assigned dates on some of my files.
So this is a nightmare. I could manually reconnect, but I have 11,000 files in 100's of folders - it would take a long time. How can I get Reconnect to work properly?
I don't have a backup that is recent enough to just do a restore.
Thank you,
Bill
After conversion, things match. So the drive letters in the catalog database are correct (except the C: drive, but that doesn't matter here.) Here are the contents of my volume_table:
id
description
serial
drive_path_if_builtin
type
104
C:
2765733514
C:
builtin_drive
80453
P:
3969101216
P:
builtin_drive
184869
E:
680486029
E:
builtin_drive
420438
database relative
amoc:database_relative_volume
database_relative_drive
And here are the volume_id entries in my media_table:
volume_id
count(volume_id)
80453
10302
184869
1559
These numbers are about right. I have about 11,800 images. When my failure occured, they all had the bogus "P:" in their pathnames. Since then I've reconnected about 1500 files to the E: drive.
So at this point I'm thinking I'll try your idea of remapping my E: drive to P: in Windows. But I'll wait until you respond, in case you have a better idea.
Thanks again,
Bill
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First off, following the format elements 8.0 was installed and all of my photos were migrated into elements(all thumbnails visible in organizer with no problems). Elements and the organizer worked perfectly fine, besides the fact that I had lost all of my tag and album info that was stored in the catalog file.
My husband purchased some file recovery software following the format of the hard drive to try and recover the catalog database file from the hard drive. The recovery software did find the file and was able to recover it from the partition of the hard drive that had been formatted over. Following the recovery of the file, he tried to move the file manually into the folder C:\program data\adobe\elements organizer\catalogs\my catalogs\. Doing this replaced the new catalog file that had been recently created by photoshops elements following the reformat with the one that was recovered by the recovery software. Next, he opened up Photoshop elements and tried to launch the organizer. Following this, we received the following message from organizer: “the catalog could not be opened, it is either corrupt, or the version is out of date and cannot be updated”. We then clicked on ok and then tried to hit the repair button, which it then told me that the catalog file could not be repaired. We also tried the File>Catalog> Open command in elements organizer to open the new catalog file and this gave me the same exact error message and same results.
We have also tried to run the psedbtool found on the web on the catalog file that was recovered by the recovery software. Unfortunately, the file is unreadable by the tool and the tool gives me the following message when trying to use the tool on the recovered catalog file: "can't open catalog database: file is encrypted or is not a database". I also tried the -csv file and -printVolumeTable options of the tool and it gives me the same message. Because I am getting this error message, it does not seem as if this tool will be able to help me with the recovered catalog database file.
Is my catalog file that I have recovered corrupt and unusable, or is there some way to get this file to work?
The recovery software I used if from Pareto Logic named "Data Recovery Pro". Could the problem be with the recovery software and maybe a different recovery software may do a better job of recovering the file?
Thnks for any help!To make the story short, have you backed up your photos? If the answer is yes then why can't you create a new catalog and import the photos to this new catalog?
To create a new catalog, the basic process is:
1) Open the Organizer and click on File
2) Click Catalog
3) click New
4) Type a name for the new catalog
5) Click OK
Now it is a question of importing the photos to this new catalog. the basic process is as follows:
1) Open the Organizer and Click File
2) Click Get Photos & Videos
3) Click From Files and Folders
4) click "down-arrow" icon to choose the folder
5) CTRL+ Click on your photos to import (or CTRL + A to select all photos)
6) click Get Media
7) Click Show All to view your photos
Hope this gets you started. Your formatted hard drive will not let you get your old files so you are stuck. You should always make a habit to back-up your data on a flash drive because they are very robust and can be stored safely away from the computer you are working on. Your your machines own Hard Disk as a back-up store is definitively not a good strategy.
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