Profiles in PSE 8 vs. PSE 9

I have downloaded profiles from the
Internet for Hahnemuhle papers, and when printing to an Epson 3800 the profiles are
not available with PSE 8. When using PSE9 the profiles are exactly where they are supposed to be. Is there a problem with PSE8 or just with my copy of it?

There has been no change in this regard in PSE 8 and 9. Please try reset of preferences for PSE 8. Also update drivers.
1. Close Elements.
2. Launch the Photoshop Elements Welcome Screen and hold down ctrl + alt + shift as you click Edit.
3. Continue to hold the keys until you see a message box asking if you want to delete Photoshop Elements settings file; click Yes. Elements will open with default preferences.
I am sure you must be checking the printer profiles from File->Print dialog box and then clicking on More Options and checking in Color Management section after choosing relevant option from dropdown.
thanks,
garry

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Printed images...sRGB vs. iMac color profile / iPhoto vs. PSE...

Hello – I have searched the various forums available, found a wealth of information on the subject, and then became even more confused. So, here goes:
The question is in regards to color profiles on my display vs. color profiles embedded in the printed image.
I have my display set to iMac Color Profile (or should I use the sRGB Profile, which gives the display a coolor, or more bluish overall tint), and then in PSE I have sRGB embedded. When I make a print going through PSE, the colors look good and overall is a pleasant image. When I take the same image and save it into iPhoto and then print it, the overall image is slightly darker and the colors a little more saturated. Overall, another pleasant image, just slightly different.
So, I suppose my question is: what is iPhoto doing that makes the printed image a bit more saturated? How should I have my colors on the display set?
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Printer_Rick wrote:
sRGB is Adobe's default RGB color space. It is the standard for world wide web. It is used by Pantone. In short it is the RGB profile most commonly encountered
I will re-iterate it's not my working RGB space, I don't care for it, I don't consider it ideal for CMYK conversion.
The idea that sRGB is the most common profile is a misconception.That profile was created to simulate an uncalibrated enviroment (monitor).Thats why if you use Photoshop function "Save for Web" it converts to sRGB then strips profile information.And this is only because until recently most web browsers didnt have any Color Management.I know Firefox has but the others until recently didnt (might be diferent know thought).
If its used by Pantone or not I dont know,but if it is I would like to know why and for what purpose cause it doesnt make any sense...
Its not ideal for any print (CMYK convertion) since it's very narrow gamut will most probably clip many satured colors.
The only good thing about it (besides being a grey balanced profile) is that you can be sure the person you send it too will not see many variations (shifts) in color from what youre seing on your calibrated monitor using Photoshop or any other ICC aware aplication.Thats why I always send previews of work in sRGB, because most of the time people that have to evaluate it dont even bother to open them in Photoshop,they use e-mail programs or browsers,let alone calibrated/profiled monitors.
I think the idea behind making it default is just that,being on the safe side.People that are aware of that ussually change it unless theyre working mainly for the Web.
This and much more you can find on the links about Bruce Fraser.He made great contributions to make people aware of Color Management.
Hope this helps.
Especificaly u can read this one:
http://www.creativepro.com/article/out-of-gamut-getting-a-handle-on-color-management
Images on examples are self-explanatory.

Bridge in pse 8 / pse 9 for Mac

Hi. I use pse 8 for Mac and is fund of Bridge. Can anyone tell me if pse 9 includes Bridge in (pretty much) the same version.
Or to put it another way: Would I benefit of an upgrade?

Yes, there's no bridge in PSE 9, but you can keep on using Bridge CS4 if you don't want to use organizer. The only problem is that you can't update the raw converter in Bridge anymore, so you won't see thumbnails for newer camera models:
http://barbarabrundage.com/2011/01/13/using-bridge-with-photoshop-elements-9/

I purchased and have installed PSE 12, PSE Premier 12, PSE 13 and PSE Premier 13. I only need PSE P 13, right?

May I delete the other three or must I keep PSE 13 to utilize PSE Premier 13?

May I delete the other three or must I keep PSE 13 to utilize PSE Premier 13?

Suite "Comment transférer mes données IPTC DE PSE 4 à PSE 12?"

A l'attention de MICHELB/PARIS avec lequel j'avais entamé ce fil de discussion entre le 22 et le 25/10/2013 :
Le 14/12/13
Je reviens vers vous suite à nos échanges du 22 au 25 octobre 2013, car, après de longues hésitations, j'ai décidé de tenter la procédure que vous m'aviez conseillée. En effet, je n'avais guère d'espoir de retrouver mes données IPTC sur mon ordinateur i-Mac car je craignais même de les perdre sur mon PC en convertissant mon catalogue créé avec la version PSE 4 pour qu'il soit compatible avec la version actuelle PSE 12.
Je vous avais posé la question, mais comme vous ne m'aviez pas répondu à ce sujet, j'étais inquiète.
Voilà donc ce que je me suis quand même décidée à tenter un mois plus tard.
1. Sur mon i-Mac ainsi que sur son disque dur de sauvegarde La Cie, j'ai d'abord supprimé toutes mes photos et leurs dossiers initialement chargés à partir de mon PC.
2. Puis, le 25/11/13, j'ai tenté l'installation d'Adobe Photoshop Elements 12 sur mon PC à partir du DVD de la version pour PC livré avec le coffret d'achat de PSE 12.
J'avais bien sûr vérifié auparavant, et dans le détail, que la configuration de mon PC était suffisante, suivant ce que vous m'aviez préconisé dans votre dernier mail du 25/10/13 (notamment Windows XP-Pack 3, espace disque disponible largement suffisant, vitesse du processeur, RAM, écran couleur, résolution d'écran, pilote d'affichage tous adaptés) Pas de problème donc de ce côté.
Or, cela a été un échec. Avec l'interruption de l'installation de l'Organiseur et l'apparition du message suivant:
"Désinstallez et réinstallez le produit. Si le problème persiste, contactez le support technique d'Adobe pour obtenir de l'aide en mentionnant le code d'erreur qui s'affiche en bas de cet écran -> Erreur 16."
J'ai donc désinstallé, puis réinstallé PSE 12 avec le même DVD et j'ai abouti au même résultat - second échec- avec interruption à la même étape et obtention du même message.
Dans chacun des 2 cas, le produit n'occupait que 1,628 Go.
En dépit de mes recherches, je n'ai pu trouver non plus à quoi correspondait l'erreur 16.
3. J'ai alors essayé à nouveau, après une seconde désinstallation, de réinstaller PSE 12 en ligne à l'aide de la Version d'Evaluation.
Troisième échec du même type avec la seule différence que le produit occupait cette fois 2,2 Go. Mais peut-être parce que la version d'évaluation nécessitait plus de mémoire que l'installation à partir du DVD en direct?
Toujours est-il que l'arrêt s'était produit à la même étape (où cela semblait patiner…) et que le code d'erreur était identique.
4. Conclusion: je n'ai même pas pu franchir la première étape que vous me préconisiez (votre mail du 22/10/13) pour essayer de résoudre mon problème, c'est-à-dire l'installation de PSE 12 sur mon ancien PC qui renfermait bien sûr toujours ma version PSE 4.
Je ne sais donc plus quoi faire. Pour réfléchir encore, je n'ai pas désinstallé la version d'évaluation. Mais celle-ci va de toutes façons être obsolète dans peu de temps (sans doute entre le 20 et le 24/ 12.)
C'est la raison pour laquelle je vous contacte aujourd'hui… en désespoir de cause.
Auriez-vous une solution à me proposer?
Si tel n'est pas le cas, pourriez vous faire remonter à la direction d'Adobe les remarques suivantes si toutefois vous êtes en relation de travail avec elle?
"* Je pense qu'Adobe est grandement responsable de ne pas assurer la sauvegarde des données IPTC d'une version à une autre alors que d'autres logiciels photo se sont améliorés à ce sujet puisque j'ai appris qu'I- Photo par exemple (logiciel pourtant bien plus modeste qu'Adobe PSE ayant une grande réputation!) permettait cette sauvegarde. Ce qui fait qu'il m'a été conseillé de l'utiliser à présent pour rédiger tous mes commentaires et remarques.
Mais j'avoue que je suis tellement déçue -et le mot est faible- d'avoir perdu toutes ces données sur 11000 photos que je ne suis plus d'attaque à écrire des commentaires pour mes nouvelles photos.
Ce qui revient aussi à constater que j'ai fait l'achat de PSE 12 pour rien car mon objectif essentiel n'était pas d'utiliser l'Editeur , mais de récupérer mes données personnelles. Les autres logiciels, i-Photo en particulier, étaient, à mon niveau, amplement suffisants pour réaliser des retouches de base.
* Avant l'achat, j'avais pourtant essayé de me renseigner à la FNAC (où je l'ai acheté), à l'APPLE STORE, auprès de particuliers… à propos de cette conservation de mes données IPTC. Ne sachant quoi me répondre, ils m'ont tous conseillée de contactez ADOBE. Je l'ai fait par mail. En vain. Pas de réponse.
Après avoir acheté le produit et m'apercevant que le problème était bien là, j'ai également téléphoné à Adobe, et je n'ai eu aucun secours. Il m'a été répondu qu'Adobe ne garantissait pas cette conservation de données personnelles! Et que seuls les ingénieurs d'Adobe "en Amérique" seraient susceptibles de m'aider!! Consternant...
J'ajoute de plus que le fait de ne pouvoir installer PSE 12 sur mon PC à configuration adéquate ( à tous points de vue) grâce au DVD fourni dans le coffret est une autre preuve du dysfonctionnement de ce logiciel.
Je demande donc à Adobe, à défaut de ne pouvoir assurer le fonctionnement de son logiciel, d'assumer sa responsabilité à cet égard et de faire jouer sa garantie."
En revanche, si vous n'êtes pas en mesure de transmettre ce message, pouvez-vous m'indiquer comment je pourrais le faire moi-même efficacement?
Avec tous mes remerciements pour votre aide , je vous prie d'accepter mes cordiales salutations.
martagon.

Après mon dernier message, je n'ai pas eu de vos nouvelles.
Je suis un utilisateur comme vous, sans aucun lien ni contact avec Adobe ; c'est le cas des autres utilisateurs avancés qui répondent aux questions sur ce forum. Il arrive que des employés d'Adobe interviennent ici, c'est clairement indiqué sous leur icone personnelle.
Je dois insister sur le fait que des questions sur des problèmes précis et sur des versions logicielles récentes ont plus de chances de trouver une solution qu'une situation comme la vôtre, avec un logiciel très ancien, une migration entre systèmes d'exploitation, des problèmes d'installation (l'erreur 16)... et la nécessité d'expliquer comment fonctinnent les catalogues et les données IPTC. Ne serait-ce que sur un problème précis, comme l'erreur 16, ces autres utilisateurs avancés ou les employés d'Adobe essaieront de vous répondre en utilisant un traducteur en ligne comme Google.
Ainsi, l'erreur 16 fait-elle l'objet d'une note technique de la part d'Adobe:
http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/policy-pricing/configuration-error-cs5.html
C'est un cas que je n'ai jamais rencontré moi-même, je serai donc prudent à ce sujet... Notez de plus que je ne connais rien aux Macs.
Mon sentiment personnel est que vous n'avez aucune chance de trouver une solution de bout en bout à votre problème auprès d'Adobe ni d'Apple. Il reste donc à résoudre d'abord le problème d'installation de PSE12 sur les deux ordinateurs. A défaut, dans PSE4, veillez à utiliser l'option d'écrire les 'informations d'étiquettes et de propriétés' dans les fichiers (menu fichier). Les données IPTC comme les étiquettes ou mot-clés que vous avez assignés aux photos seront accessibles à tout autre programme externe : l'explorateur Windows ou le FInder Mac par exemple. Pour leur récupération dans des catalogues d'Elements, il faut bien sûr résoudre le problème d'installation de PSE12 en premier. A partir de là on peut reprendre la procédure recommandée dans la note que j'ai citée et traduite.

How do you share thousands of pictures with text and captions outside of PSE? (PSE 4)

One of my dad’s retirement passions is family genealogy and old family pictures. Several years ago I gave my family PSE 4.0 for Christmas so that we could each have backup copies of our dad’s pictures. Usually once per year, I made backup copies of everything and emailed the DVDs to my brothers and sisters. Everyone knows the basic PSE 4 functions and share our dad's enjoyment with the old family photos.
My problem is that my dad is running out of pictures to scan. He wants to “share” or “show” his photos with others so that he can “borrow” their photo albums in order to scan their photos. He plans to attend a hometown high school reunion later this fall. He hopes to "collect" photo albums from cousins and classmates. I have been struggling with this for several days without any good ideas.
The scanned pictures lack any text (added as a layer?) or captions. Creating a slideshow (on my dad’s computer is slow). Also, a slideshow doesn’t let others select individual pictures to save from the slide show
He has old pictures pre-PSE 4 that allowed him to add captions directly to the picture when it was scanned. I never liked this approach as it "destroyed" the actual picture but these old pictures are more easily shared as individual pictures.
How do you share thousands of pictures with text and captions outside of PSE? Can you save or export a composite picture with all the layers?
Thanks in advance for your help and replies.

I think it is one of the printer option screens that gives me the choice of tabbed 4x6. All of the choices specifiy HP or Other so I am pretty sure it is printer software that offers me this choice.
Make sure your image has a 4x6 aspect ratio. I have been quite happy with the tabbed 4x6. Just need to remember to load the paper with the tab last.
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Color prints in PSE 9 not accurate.

Hello,
I've been having trouble printing color prints with PSE 9. They appear kind of pale or less vivid (unacceptably so), the colors are just not as they appear on my monitor. I'm using an Epson R2880, iMac 10.6.8. It prints b&w beautifully. I've been through Epson tech support, checked nozzles and cleaned heads. While speaking with Espon they suggested I print from another application, so I tried using iPhoto, colors came out accurately there. I happen to still have PSE 8 still on my computer, so I attempted to print from there, the colors were also more accurate there (and that's without using the ICC profiles I have in PSE 9 ). It seems the issue is unique to PSE 9. I've tried changing my color setting, typically I have it set to AdobeRGB, but have tried "no color management". I have my monitor calibrated, use proper ICC profiles for any papers I use (and have tried multiple papers). Any suggestions on what the issue may be?

As well as having PSE set to AdobeRGB, is the image also set to that colour space (It will have an asterisk after the color setting - RGB/8*)?
Have you tried sRGB settings?
I note your comment about the ICC Profiles but quickly checking my Scott Kelby PSE7 book he says he uses an R2880 but that it didn't install color profiles for all the Epson papers. Have you been to Epsons website and downloaded and installed ALL the appropriate profiles?
Cheers,
Neale
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Cannot reconnect / specify volume in PSE 8

I just upgraded from an older version of PSE to PSE 8 for windows. I am running PSE in Parallels on a Mac. The older version of PSE worked fine in this configuration. However, when I upgraded to PSE 8, it seems to be looking for the picture volume in a UNC path established by parallels (//.PSF/Home) rather than by mapped drive (P:\). As a result, all my photos (all 11K of them) are offline. I cannot find anywhere that I can tell PSE to look for the volume at P:\. All I have found is an option to try to tell it to reconnect to the UNC volume (which is the correct path btw)... which for some reason it fails to do. Any ideas? HELP!
Thanks,
Kyle

Thanks John.   So here's the latest. Per your suggestion, using PSE5 I moved my photos to the parallels C:\Photos directory. Then converted the catalog with PSE8. Everything seemed to work out fine. All the pictures were online. Then with PSE8 I moved the files to the P: drive, which is mapped to //.psf/Home/Pictures/Library. A couple things. The folder viewer in PSE8 doesn't allow you to drill down on directories outside of where it thinks your photos are. This wasn't an issue for me since I was simply moving my photos directory from root C to root P.
The big bummer however is that with the move, all the files became disconnected and I cannot get them to reconnect. In the file viewer they are shown at //.psf/Home/Photos. When I click on an individual photo, the properties say it is at [//.psf/Home]\\.psf\Home\Photos\<subdir>. The output from the psedb tool is below. Do you have any other suggestions? I'd really like to keep my files on a mapped drive (//.psf/Home/...) so that I can access them from my mac.
psedbtool version 1.08
Opening catalog P:\Catalog\AngieKyle\AngieKyle\catalog.pse8db
Photoshop Elements version:      8
Total files               : 10859
Total files missing       : 10859
Total files offline       :      0
Total files wrong volume :      0
PSE Volume Table
Path used by PSE        : \\.psf\Home
Type                    : network_drive
Status                  : online
Total files             : 10859
Total files missing     : 10859
Total files wrong volume: 0
Description             : //.psf/Home
Serial                  : //.psf/Home
Drive_path_if_builtin   :
Id                      : 174933
Path used by PSE        : P:\Catalog\AngieKyle\AngieKyle
Type                    : database_relative_drive
Status                  : online
Total files             : 0
Total files missing     : 0
Total files wrong volume: 0
Description             : database relative
Serial                  : amoc:database_relative_volume
Drive_path_if_builtin   :
Id                      : 2
Path used by PSE        : C:
Type                    : builtin_drive
Status                  : online
Total files             : 0
Total files missing     : 0
Total files wrong volume: 0
Description             : C:
Serial                  : ACF1-823B
Drive_path_if_builtin   : C:
Id                      : 6207
Windows Drives
Drive Type             Serial     Path
A:     removable_drive 18D7-772B
C:     builtin_drive    ACF1-823B
D:     readonly_drive   0000-0000
E:     removable_drive 0000-0000
F:     removable_drive 0000-0000
G:     removable_drive 0000-0000
H:     removable_drive 0000-0000
P:     network_drive    0000-0000
Y:     network_drive    0000-0000
Z:     network_drive    0000-0000
Also, I repeated the process above by taking a copy of my original PSE5 DB and moving it with PSE5, importing it into PSE8. Here's what the psedb tool looks like before attempting to move the the files to the psf directory with PSE8. Note that I changed some drive mappings prior to doing this. This looks pretty clean (I think) ... I am beginning to believe that PSE8 just can't handle mapped drives. Ugh.
psedbtool version 1.08
Opening catalog W:\Catalog\HarrisonPhotos\catalog.pse8db
Photoshop Elements version:      8
Total files               : 10859
Total files missing       :      0
Total files offline       :      0
Total files wrong volume :      0
PSE Volume Table
Path used by PSE        : W:\Catalog\HarrisonPhotos
Type                    : database_relative_drive
Status                  : online
Total files             : 0
Total files missing     : 0
Total files wrong volume: 0
Description             : database relative
Serial                  : amoc:database_relative_volume
Drive_path_if_builtin   :
Id                      : 2
Path used by PSE        : C:
Type                    : builtin_drive
Status                  : online
Total files             : 10859
Total files missing     : 0
Total files wrong volume: 0
Description             : C:
Serial                  : ACF1-823B
Drive_path_if_builtin   : C:
Id                      : 6207
Windows Drives
Drive Type             Serial     Path
A:     removable_drive 18D7-772B
C:     builtin_drive    ACF1-823B
D:     readonly_drive   0000-0000
E:     removable_drive 0000-0000
F:     removable_drive 0000-0000
G:     removable_drive 0000-0000
H:     removable_drive 0000-0000
W:     network_drive    0000-0000
X:     network_drive    0000-0000
Y:     network_drive    0000-0000
Z:     network_drive    0000-0000

Problems migrating PSE 8 on Windows to Lr 3 on Mac

I have a 22K+ photo PSE 8 catalog on Windows. I've just recently gotten a new Mac and a coworker convinced me to get Lr 3 for the Mac. He migrated his PSE catalog (I don't know the version) to Lr 3 on the Mac with no problems. Lucky him. After two days I haven't been successful even getting the catalog upgraded to Lr on Windows yet. Part of the time was due to dumb stuff in my PSE 8 catalog, but I've gotten that worked out now, and I've found solutions to a lot of my problems on this forum (thank you!!). I'm getting very close to success. Just one major problem left: when I upgrade the catalog to Lr 3, open it, and sort by Capture Time, a good number of my photos are either completely missing the Capture Time (700+ photos) or the Capture Time is the date/time of the last edit (who knows how many). When I look at the metadata of these files in Windows Explorer, it also shows the "Date taken" the same as Lr. The photos display in perfect chronological order in PSE, and PSE even shows me the correct date/time in the Properties, so obviously it has the desired information. I tried selecting a file or two and using File | Write Keyword Tag and Properties Info to photo in PSE, but that seems to only write the keywords (like it says) and doesn't change the date taken. All (or at least the vast majority) of the photos with this problem are JPG files.
Any suggestions on how can I get the date/time stamp that PSE has into Lr?
Thanks!
Ruth

Thanks, John!! I downloaded psedbtool as you suggested. It corrected the problem with the missing capture time, but the time stamp on the edited pictures was set to GMT (maybe that's what had been wrong with them all along). I did figure out, though, that it seems to only be pictures from the last year (since I got my newest camera?) that are affected, and since it's just a time zone change, it wasn't too difficult to use Lr to edit the time. I think all is good now. :-) Thanks so much for your help!!
Ruth

Missing Photos in PSE 12, but not in PSE 11

I own PSE 11 & PSE 12. Several of my photos in PSE 12 have the question mark (missing photo). These same photos don;t have the question mark in PSE 11. How can I resolve this issue?

See the answer for the same question:
http://www.elementsvillage.com/forums/showthread.php?p=682723&posted=1#post682723

Deplacer barre des taches PSE 13

Bonjour, je suis passé de PSE 6 à PSE 13 et je suis un peu déçu de la présentation et de l'ergonomie.
Notamment, l'emplacement du bouton retour en arrière ou rétablir qui oblige à des allers retours fréquents entre les menus déroulants en haut et la partie basse.
Je ne maitrise pas encore cette nouvelle version, existe t il une solution ?

Je ne me sers jamais des boutons de la barre du bas. Il y a le menu Edition/Annuler en haut, et surtout le raccourci Ctrl Z.
C'est sûr qu'il y a beaucoup à dire sur les choix ergonomiques des versions récentes, mais franchement, ceux de PSE6 (que j'ai beaucoup aimé) ne sont pas terribles.
L'avantage des raccourcis est qu'ils ne changent pratiquement pas avec les nouvelles versions.
Les changements d'interface sont souvent déroutants, mais n'hésitez pas à questionner, il y a généralement des moyens de s'acclimater .

PSE 7 catalog error when restoring backup from PSE 5

I am attempting to move from PSE5 on XP to PSE7 on Vista using the backup-restore method, . Catalog is about 75 MB, data set is 56 GB, all stored on external USB drive. Tried restoring in new folder using both with and without restoring folder arrangement.
On PSE 5, most images were online, scattered across E: partition and external USB disk. Restoring to PSE7, files are all restored to a new directory OK, but new catalog lists all files in E: as offline. Let me repeat... the images are moved into a new folder on the new system, but are shown in the organizer as still on a non-existent E: drive on the new computer.
I am left with thousands of untagged images, all of them ther newest and most important in my system.

Mahlon,
First, some additional questions:
1. Did you do File > Catalog > Recover and File > Catalog > Reconnect before doing the backup? Thats very important.
2. On the old computer, was E: a partition on an internal drive, an external USB drive, or a network drive?
3. In the restored PSE 7 catalog, are the suspect thumbnails shown with a yellow question icon in their corner or a red circle icon with a line through it (like the international power symbol)?
4. When you say files are still recorded in the catalog as being on the E: drive, is that as shown in Folder Location view in the left-hand folder heirarchy pane, in the center Folder Location pane, in the Properties pane, or all three? (Check all three, because sometimes PSE will show different drive letters.)
> This will take a dozen hours on the old system, and I'm skeptical that it will work. PSE7 already converts the PSE5 database in or out of the restore. But it can't correct the pathname on the old system to indicate that the files are local and not offline.
Recovering the PSE 5 catalog, reconnecting missing files, installing PSE 7, and converting the catalog to PSE 7 on the old computer should take about 30-45 minutes (doing a second backup will take much longer).
Converting the catalog on the old computer is different than converting it on the new computer. PSE 7 has a different catalog format than PSE 5 PSE 5 uses drive letters to identify hard drives, whereas PSE 7 relies on serial numbers, and the internal database format is completely different. When you restore to the new computer and try to convert the catalog at the same time, the conversion needs to both update the new paths of all the files
and convert from the old catalog format to the new one, changing drive letters to serial numbers. But when you convert to PSE 7 on the old computer, the locations of files and drives havent changed its just changing the database format. So its entirely possible that conversion will go correctly. Then when you backup the PSE 7 catalog and restore it on the new computer, backup/restore is just changing the paths of files, not converting from drive letters to serial numbers or changing database formats.
So thats why its quite possible (though not at all guaranteed) that converting to PSE 7 on the old computer and then doing backup/restore could produce different results different process, different results.
You have two other options, both of which might lose tags or other catalog information:
1. On your new computer in its current state, reconnect all the files in the catalog to their new locations. Because they are marked as offline (assuming they actually are offline, based on the answers to my questions above), the Reconnect command will tell there is nothing to reconnect. However, you can force PSE to reconnect offline files using a trick described in step 4 of this FAQ:
http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/photoshopelements-6-7-faq.htm#_Quickly_reconnecting_la rge
This may or may not work, because its likely that the buggy conversion process has left your catalog in an inconsistent, unknown state, and there may be other problems still lurking. Also, persuading PSE to quickly reconnect whole folder hierarchies of files takes some patience (as youll see in the FAQ).
2. You can merge the PSE 5 catalog into a fresh PSE 7 catalog using this procedure: In PSE 5, save the tag definitions to a file, use File > Write Keyword Tag to write the keyword tags to the photos, copy the tag-definitions file and all the photos to the new computer using Windows Explorer, import the tag definitions into a fresh PSE 7 catalog, import the copied photos, and finally have PSE 7 automatically stack photos that used to be in version sets into stacks. These steps are described in detail in this FAQ:
http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/photoshopelements-6-7-faq.htm#_Merging_Catalogs
This FAQ is written assuming the source catalog is in PSE 6 or 7, but I think it should also apply to a source catalog in PSE 5.
There are a number of problems with this. First, its time consuming. Second, youll lose version sets, stacks of photos that are *not* visually very similar or taken close together in time, collections (albums), and projects. The PSE File > Write Keyword Tag command has numerous bugs (in all versions), and youll most likely lose at least some, and perhaps much, of your tags, star ratings, captions, notes, dates/times, and GPS/map locations. If you have raw files in particular, youll very likely lose much or all of the metadata, but depending on the source of your JPGs and other file formats, those files could lose much information too. See the end of this FAQ for more details on the known bugs:
http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/#_Writing_File_Metadata

Can you burn dvd's in PSE 11 without purchasing more software?

I just upgraded from PSE 7 because I had problems with sharing and burning dvd's, now it seems that I can not burn a cd or dvd without buying more software. What am I missing here?

The options in PSE have always been limited where it’s possible to create a data disk for viewing on computers or a back-up disk. Windows users can create a wmv file and then use that in the free Windows DVD maker to create a DVD which can be played on a TV but it’s a bit cumbersome. Ideally you should have purchased the combo Photoshop+Premiere Elements which is the best value, imho and which will give you lots of output options for DVD, Youtube, Vimeo, Facebook etc. I had a similar problem some years ago but managed to get my store to exchange PSE for PSE/PRE.

PSE 9 and MP4 files

Just thought that I should mention that PSE9 stops running when Elements is importing picture files and comes across an accidental MP4 extension. In Windows 7 it needed the Task Manager to restart. This user is stupid enough not to have checked that all the graphic files were in fact graphics!

You need to be sure which nikon camera, because although they all (most) are NEF files, they might require different versions of camera raw than the 6.5 you have in pse 9.
(pse 9 can only use up to camera 6.5)
Here's a list of cameras and the minimum required version of camera raw:
http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/camera-raw-plug-supported-cameras.html

PSE 9 Nightmare

Sorry Adobe but downloading and installing PSE 9 has been a freaking nightmare. I needed two chat sessions to get the program downloaded. Then I find that it's a 7-Zip file that I had to get a program to extract the files. Now that I have the files extracted "setup.exe" starts and then quits without installing the program. It used to be so simple. Buy PSE, download PSE, install PSE. Why does it have to be so convoluted a process now?

Good question. If I had to guess, I'd guess it has something to do with security, but why it has to do with security is a mystery to me. I'm with you, why can't it be simple: buy PSE, download PSE, and then use PSE?

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