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I have been using PSE 7 and have about 8,000 photos in the catalog. I recently upgraded to PSE 8 and really like the product except that my catalog seems to become corrupted. I am not certain exactly whether this occured when I upgraded or subsequently.
My folder view no longer shows the photos actually in the folder. My folder naming convention is date then subject, and seems as if the photos have been moved to a date two loads later. Windows still shows the photos in the correct folders. Most of tags seem to be working but some have got scrambled. I did have problems when I tried to Auto Analyzer - it ran on a core dua processor for 26 hours then errored out.
What is the best way to correct and recover my catalog?

Do you suggest building Tags to represent the folder view - this would seem to be a possible work-around if you have the discipline to keep them updated.
Using tags is no more work than carefully placing photos into folders. With each photo, you either have to drag it into a folder or drag it to a tag (or vice versa). With either approach, you can dag multiple photos at a time. As Paige points out, the advantage of tags is that you can choose to have more than one tag applied to a photo, whereas a photo can live in exactly one folder at a time.
Is it possible to to create a Smart Tag to reporesent a folder.
Not sure what you mean by this. Smart Tags are created by the Auto-Analyzer. (I recommend not using the Auto-Analyzer, by the way -- it can crash frequently and it will attach corrupted GPS locations to photos.)
If what you want to do is convert your folder structure to a tag structure, read this:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ElementsOrganizer/8.0/Win/Using//WSae2ea3b149d0c3591ae939f1038 60b3d59-7e88_WIN.html
You can automatically create a keyword tag with the same name as a folder on your hard disk and attach that tag to all the managed files in that folder (managed files are those that you’ve added to your Elements Organizer catalog). Creating and attaching tags this way is useful when you’ve used descriptive folder names to organize the media files on your hard disk, and you want to quickly tag your managed media files with those same folder names.

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