PSA 2.0 to PSA SE 3.0 Catalog Issues

I edit my images in PS CS but I paid for Photoshop Album 2.0. because I really liked its tagging facilities and calendar organizing. So I spent a lot of time tagging.
Now PSA 3.0 SE is out and I installed it but after install I noticed it didn't have my old tags. This might be caused by my moving the PSA 2.0 to my G drive to improve drive contention and to make it more noticeable for backups (I believe it was buried in the "Program Files/Adobe/Album" area or something like that...hard to even know you should go there for backups).
So a couple questions:
1) Is this tagging and calendaring stuff available in Elements or Photoshop? In others words is going to PSA SE 3.0 the right upgrade path?
2) How can I get the catalog into PSA SE 3.0? Are the 2.0 and 3.0 catalogs compatible so I can just replace the 3.0 catalog with 2.0? Or is there a hidden import function?
Thanks for you help. I wish Adobe had at least carried the 2.0 features (including have the catalog location listed in preferences) rather than dumbing it down.
Bob

This is all very confused - bacause Adobe use complicated versioning.
The last version of PSA was PSA 2.
There is a giveaway version called PSA SE 3, which is mostly a subset of PSA 2.
The replacement for PSA 2 was Photoshop Elements 3 [PSE 3 - its Organizer component], which added more functionality and works fine with CS.
PSE 3 was then replaced by PSE 4 and PSE 4 by PSE 5.
Forget PSA SE 3.

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Using PSA 2.0 with PSA SE 3.0

So I already own PhotoShop Album 2.0 and PhotoShop Elements 2.0...
We have also bought a new digital camera that works quite well... and we've taken over 700 photos in the last 6 months.
(side note: Never let Windows Photo downloader copy photos from camera to disk, it strips the date!... I just copy the photos from the camera to hard drive since Win XP considers the camera connected to a USB is just another drive)
I also have decided to incorporated scanned photos from an old attempt at Web based Christmas card (back when it was an "@home.com" address). So when the PSA 2.0 pulled them in, there lots of duplicate pictures that looked the same, but I needed to right click the mouse to bring up "properties" to see which was the thumbnail file and which was the larger full sized photo.
BUT... I noticed that PSA SE 3.0 does show the picture (smaller) WITH the file name under it! And all I have to do is float the mouse over the file name to get the full path (Shared Documents/Shared Pictures... etc.jpg).
BUT... I cannot move files (except delete duplicates), nor can I copy to a CD or DVD... which PSA 2.0 fully paid for does (oh, and PSA 2.0 did a great job of burning DVD's when my then "new" laptop's DVD software failed... that has since been fixed by buying decent burning software with added functionality).
But all is not lost... (sorry I don't quite feel like buying PSE 4.0 just yet). The PSA 2.0 can read the PSA SE 3.0 catalog file! Woo Hoo!
So I can pull in all the pictures I've been meaning to organize... and this includes scanning some more very old slides and snapshots. Have PSA SE 3.0 organize, re-date and tag --- then burning picture CD's with PSA 2.0 (which can also edit the pictures by pulling in PSE 2.0, needed to get dust marks and scratches off scanned slides).

I must apologise to everyone who has bothered to read about my problems, especially Colin -thanks. When checking again (properly) I realised that I had indeed renamed the files names in PASE3 and they were not initially shown in PA2. On starting PA2 next day the file names were all correct. I know they disapear if the thumbnails are too small, but I had tried larger sizes. I can only assume (v. dangerous!) that it took the PC to reboot for the file names to show? Anyway, I am now well pleased with Album 2. I'll probably burn a copy of the photos - just in case..............
Happy New Year to everyone
Albert

How do I open a PSA file type in Photoshop Elements 12

How do I open a PSA file type in Photoshop Elements 12

A file with a .PSA extension is most probably a catalog file from an older version of Elements (up to PSE5). To be able to use it with a newer version (including PSE12), you'll have to convert the catalog to the new format. In the organizer, open the 'File' menu, select the catalog manager (shift Ctrl C) and click the convert button, browse to the .psa file. Your catalog will be converted to the new format.

PSE 2/PSA 2 conversion to PSE 5 on new PC

I Just purchased and installed a new PC running MS Windows XP Media Edition. I am in the process of converting applications and data/picture files from my old MS Windows XP Home Edition to the new PC. Both Windows XP operating systems are up to date.
The old PC has PSE 2.0 and PSA 2.0.1 which manages just under 2,000 cataloged and tagged photos. I have not installed PSE or PSA on the new machine. Both PCs have a single hard drive c:.
I just purchased PSE 5, but have not installed it on either PC. What would be the best way to convert and copy My_Catalog with all the photos to PSE 5 on my new PC?
a) On old PC, Backup My_Catalog to CDs (or flash drive) with PSA 2;
Install PSE 5 on the new PC and restore to c: on new PC
b) Install PSE 5 on old PC and convert My_Catalog to new Organizer
(however that might be done);
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Install PSE 5 on new PC and restore My_Catalog
c) Some other method?
I searched your Tips, Tools, How-to, and Techniques forum and did not find anything too definitive. I would sincerely appreciate guidance on this conversion before I start.

As no one has posted to this entry, I am thinking about doing the following to convert to PSE 5 and moving to a new PC.
On my old PC:
1. With PSA Ver 2, File/Reconnect_All_Missing_Files
2. With PSA Ver 2, File/Catalog/Recover
3. With PSA Ver 2, File/Backup the catalog and burn CDs
4. Install PSE Ver 5. Hopefully, this will convert the PSA 2 catalog to PSE 5 format.
5. With PSE Ver 5, Backup the catalog to CDs
On my new PC:
6. Install PSE Ver 5
7. With PSE 5, Restore the PSE 5 backup CDs

PSA IS NOT CATEGORIZED ( VOODI PLE ANS)

hi voodi,
i studied f1 ans i didnt get, what is main purpose of psa is not categorized under gereral tab in datasource creation?
regards
suneel.

Suneel,
That settings is very important and one of the best feature in BI 7.0. No load will fail because of Special Charecters etc.
If you select PSA is not typed, means all the PSA (Fields in the tables) will be created with CHAR as datatypes (Source may supply any thing) i guess. That means you can make sure that load till PSA will pass without any issues.
i will update thread one link which we had very good discussion on that.
Nagesh ganisetti.
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Delta Loads are not working: 0FI_GL_10 With enhancement : HR Data in source

Hello Friends. Thanks for your answer on theory which I know, Please help me with this situation. I read all the sdn response to my message and have below for your suggestion
QUES1: Why the 0RECORDMODE is not coming in Standard DSO and hence it is not there in Transformation in between Infosource and DSO. What do I need to include 0RECORDMODE in standard DSO. What is the correct OSS to Implement on SP 10 to solve this.
Ques2. As suggested by you If I run the Delta loads after waiting for 1 hour of Init load. say init load was done at 11 am . i will do the delta at 12:10 am to psa via Infopack and then wait for an hour to run the DTP from PSA to DSO. Delta Records come in but it also bring in the records in DSO that are not changed from about 7 hours in ECC. and make our total Balance incorrect.
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Cocatenation#1 SEGMENT AND CONT AREA
Cocatenation#1 Version, Value Typem, Valuation view, Currency Type.
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Since business want to include HR Data in Keys Like Employee Number, Emp Code, EMPSPIMCODE. Payroll ID and I can not remove these fields from Key in DSO as per the business.</b>
Also the above fields GL ACCT , CHRT OF ACCTS, SEGMENT, CONT AREA
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Please email me at [email protected] if you have any docs to resolve the above
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Did the full load bring all records from sourcesystem to PSA?
Was this an issue with the first delta you have tested ?
Concatentaion of multiple keys into one should not be an issue here as that must have been happening in DSO and delta brings incorrect records to PSA itself.
Are you validating delta records against FAGLFLEXT inputing the timestamp value or RSA3 ..how ?
<b>Check if this note helps</b>
Note 1002272 - NewGL-DataSource 0FI_GL_10, 3FI_GL_*: Missing record.
Is delta bringing incorrect records to PSA or DTP brings incorrect records to DSO from PSA ?
May be you should revisit the logic behind for the enhancement of 0FI_GL_10.
I am facing a similar issue as well but here delta doesnot even bring a single record ( ODS has 20 keys )...will update if resolves and you do the same.
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Delta not generated in case of Actual Goods Issue date change in R3

Hi Gurus
In our implementation in BI Production server we are using 2LIS_12_VCHDR and 2LIS_12_VCITM
extractors where in R3 Deliveries are created first and then the PGI is done. While in BI Extractions As the data comes first time without any issue but when the PGI is done the PGI date Tech Name (WADAT_IST) gets updated in the R3 system but in RSA 7 too this delta is not getting generated. can any one tell the probable reason.
We are stuck there Early help needed.
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Hi Shivani,
did you manage to solve your problem?
We are facing a similar issue:
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- Afterwards in R/3 the delivery has been picked and then, after 1 second, issued.
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How do I get a clean start for catalog to start all over again?

Running PSE5 on Win XP w/SP3
I have not been able to get any information about how to recover a catalog from files that have been copied as a backup, so it looks like I'm forced to start all over again. There are about 17000 images in the C: drive. The images all seem to be OK. A few days ago there was a properly operating catalog file (and all the others) there, too.
Since then, I have tried to learn how to make the former catalog file operative, but no luck. Since then, I have read that just uninstalling and reinstalling PSE5 will do nothing to give me a clean start - that is, all the old (now problematical) catalog file trouble will still be there.
To start all over again seems like such a waste of time, since I have copies of all the catalog files as they were properly operating in March, but it seems that something important is missing and none of this stuff is useful in any way. I'm not the PSE5 user, so I didn't know about the external catalog backup that can be done from within PSE5 - so the possibility to use that technique does not exist. All I have is a straight copy of everything in the Documents and Settings.. ...Application Data\Adobe folder. I've tried replacing the whole Adobe folder with the backup files, starting PSE5 and looking at the catalog, but that didn't work either. I just get the same old empty catalog.
So, the 'start all over' option seems like the only way out. Anyone who has lost the catalog knows how much work is in the catalog, so any help with either making the old catalog file work through reconstruction somehow, or starting all over again, will be very helpful. Someday, I'd like to learn how this happened. Until then I'll be backing up the catalog file from within PSE5 to an external location... Everytime there's a new entry in the catalog information. That method seems simple enough that even I could do it.
Thanks,
Al
(K3PXR)

I tried to open the resident 'My Catalog.psa' file. PSE5 dutifully did that and the catalog information, such as tags and other information that would normally be present when looking at the Organizer is blank, as if nothing has ever been entered in the catalog.
The 'My Catalog.psa' file is about 600K (according to windows explorer) and resides in the 'Catalogs' folder. Also there are:
My Catalog-2.psa about 3252K
My Catalog-2.psa about 5380K
In the folder: 'Catalog Folders' were the folders:
My Catalog
My Catalog-1
In the folder My Catalog are the files:
backupCt.dat 1K
collstatus.dat 1K
tagstatus.dat 1K
thumb.5.cache 10K
In the folder My Catalog-1 is the file:
tn.4.cache 32394 K
Above I say 'In the folder, Catalog Folders, were the folders My Catalog and My Catalog-1' because last night when shutting down, I didn't know what was in those folders. I was too tired to check.
I did copy everything that was in the Adobe folder and all associated sub folders, including the folders above, to an SD flash card before I started to do anything else. Becasue of this, I should be able to get back to the way it was before I started to do anything, then I opened the catalog file My Catalog-1.psa. It said that it was made from an earlier version, asked to convert it and contained the 2002 to 2004 catalog information. To the best of my knowledge, those photos were never entered in PSE5, and probably were from an earlier version of PS Album.
So, where is the information that was once in the PSE5 catalog? Which files should contain that information? Why can't the files simply be copied from the backup copies back on to the C:\ drive in the proper folders and then upon starting PSE5 see at least the catalog that was present when the copies of the files in the folders above were made? What dumb mistakes could have been made to overwrite the information in the catalog and make the catalog appear empty? If I don't learn this, I'll not be able to prevent it from happening again.
I'm not on the machine with the trouble at the moment, and since it is not my machine, I sometimes have trouble getting to it during normal waking hours. I don't know the exact clicks and keystrokes that got the catalog from its normal function to appearing and functioning as if it is empty..
What exactly are the symptoms of "PSE5 doesn't like..."? The catalog appears and functions as if it is empty - as if nothing ever has been or ever was entered into it. PSE5 Organizer is operating normally as far as I can tell. I cannot seem to locate the former catalog information and it has not loaded the former catalog file information. A new test catalog was made and it opens and shows the thumbnails of its four images. I hope that the test catalog I made didn't overwrite anything that would prevent going back to the original catalog information. The copies of the files can be restored as they were a few months ago, though, because there is a copy of them on an SD card.
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Al
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Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 - Comparison with Picasa and Canon Zoom Browser

I have recently bought a new computer and connected it to a USB hard drive which contained all my photos and a copy of an Adobe Photoshop Elements (APE) 4 catalog which permitted me to run APE 4 directly from the USB drive. The new computer runs on Windows 7 with Adobe Photoshop Elements 7. When I attempted to open the old catalog, created in APE 4 APE 4, APE 7 needed to convert it. The converted catalog then needed to reconnect with files and this took hours because APE seems to be incapable of sorting this out automatically. On the other hand Picasa 3 dealt with the matter in minutes and Canon Zoom Browser dealt with it in seconds. Why is this? What are the advantages of using APE 7 over Picasa 3 or Canon Zoom Browser?

John McQuade wrote:
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Finally, and at long last, a kindred spirit that won't keep photos on the OS drive. I was told as recently as >> yesterday << that my post about saving photos anyplace else but "C:/" was "non-sequitur".
Second, I'm sort of accustomed to "USB drive", as a synonym for "flash drive", and "Ext HDD" referring to an external HDD, (this makes sense, at least in my twisted individual perception), so accordingly, I apologize for my knee-jerk lecture about it. (In hindsight, perhaps the only child in me is expecting too much also).
I never use external HDDs, but rather install additional HDDs internally to accomplish the same net result. My sensibilities here are, they are quite a bit less expensive, they do the same job, and you don't have addional s*** laying all over the place.
IMO, you are overthinking the database issue. I get to say that since I have no such ability to do so, and additionally, I have never been unable to reconnect a catalog other than within the normal Windows environment.
Therefore, I suggest changing the drive letter(s) to that of the old drive(s), and remain in blisslful ignorance as to whether PSE-7 is using the SN# or Drive letter to do its "dirty work".
As Mr. Ellis has pointed out, you're trying to do too many things at once. I'm going to suggest an "experimental" fix which is sort of backwards from Mr. Ellis', but retains the same spirit.
Install PSE-4 on the NEW machine! Insert its catalog file into its (PSE-4) correct folder. This location can be found by "Help" > "System Info".
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You might have to change the "compatibility" mode for PSE-4 several times, before PSE-7 will be able to follow the file path.
As an additional note, since PSE-7 is technically, (according to Adobe), "incompatible", you can match its compatibility mode with PSE-4's, at the onset. After you have stabilized the system, change PSE-7's mode back to whatever works best.
If you need any more info on these operations, please feel free to post back.
I would like to add, that my PSE-7 in Windows 7 runs poorly in comparision with the same program in the XP environment. This seems not to be "typical", but IMO, worth mentioning.
Please also bear in mind that you can paste the entire catalog file into the "Open Catalog" dialog box, and PSE will place in its folder for you...!
Then, assuming the HDD letters are the same, it will reconnect "instantly", or in the case of a PSE-4 ".psa" cat file, PSE-7 will convert it, then open it instantly.
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I noticed that the Michael Tapes 'Import' video showed an 'Import From Elements' menu item on the file menu. I have the 4.1 beta installed and this item does not appear in the file menu. Where did it go or is there another way to import a PSE catalog straight into LR.
Here is the video site:
http://pictureflow.fileburst.com/_Tutorials/Photoshop_LR/01/index.html

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Guys,
My DTP failed 4 days back, but the full load from Source system to PSA is executing successfully.
To correct the DTP load, I have deleted the last DTP request and also all the PSA requests except the last one and when I re-executed the DTP I am getting Duplicate records. Also, in the failed DTP header, I am seeing all the deleted PSA requests?
How do I resolve this issue? I cannot check Handle duplicate records since it is a Time dependent data.
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Hi Kumar,
1.deleting from PSA and updating is not a permanent solution..
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so deleting from PSA will not solve the issue...
chk the data from source tables itself why the wrong data is cmg into PSA like tht...
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u can create an error DTP for tht so tht it'll be easy to trace the duplicates easily,...
2. You have the option "handle duplicate reords" in the DTP.
check the box and try to load the data again.
If this is time dependent master data then check also "valid to" as key along with other objects in sematic group option in the DTP.
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Hi Srivardhan,
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