PSE 8 Catalog

Can someone please tell me the default file name and path to the catalog in PSE 8 Organizer in Windows Vista.
Thanks,
Barb

From this Adobe document about the catalogs and versions:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/859/cpsid_85996.html
Elements 8 Organizer
Default catalog location
Windows 7 and Vista
All Users: C:\ProgramData\Adobe\Elements Organizer\Catalogs\Catalog Name
Current User: C:\Users\Your User Name\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Elements Organizer\Catalogs\Catalog Name
Windows XP
All Users: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Adobe\Elements Organizer\Catalogs\Catalog Name
Current User: C:\Documents and Settings\Your User Name\Application Data\Adobe\Elements Organizer\Catalogs\Catalog Name
Supporting files location
Stored in the same folder as catalog.pse8db.
Catalog format
SQLite database, stored in a file called catalog.pse8db.
Ken

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Moving my photos and PSE catalog to a new machine... and upgrading

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I am seeking advice on the best way to do the following:
- move my photos from my current laptop to a new laptop
- recreate my current PSE catalog on the new machine
- do both of the above while also upgrading to PSE 11 on the new machine.
The last time I did this sort of action -- moved my photos to a new machine -- it was sheer bedlum. Hoping to avoid the pain this time.
Do I first need to move my photos to the new laptop -- recreating the exact smae file structure that I have today -- amd them export and import the PSE catalog? I want to repeserve the album structure and tagging that I have created.....
Any help/pointers appreciated.

The recommended way to move to another computer with a new OS or PSE version is to use the built-in backup and restore function in PSE.
- Start with a clean catalog : reconnect missing files, repair, optimize. That's good practice even if it is not strictly necessary.
- Do a full backup on an external media (external USB drives are safe and affordable). If you have several catalogs, do as many backups. Warning ! each separate backup must be in its own separate folder.
- Now, you have installed your PSE version (possibly a newer version) on the new computer, you can do a restore from each catalog backup. That will restore the catalog and the picture files ; if you have checked the option to keep the folder tree structure, it will be kept.
The smart thing about this process is that not only everything is restored, but if you have upgraded to a newer PSE version, the catalog will be automatically converted to the newer version ; furthermore, you have a backup!
http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/photoshop-elements-faq.htm#_Move_your_photos_1
http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop-elements/kb/common-catalog-issues-upgrade-elements.html
Edit:
This shows why a backup from the organizer is often a better solution than external backup solutions. Suppose your old computer crashes, you can restore to a new computer and newer PSE version easily. It's also a good way to update a secondary computer (a laptop for instance) to the same 'sync' than the master computer.

Searching for duplicates in PSE catalog?

I am experiencing numerous duplicate photo images in my PSE catalog. I woud like to do a search of the catalog and bulk remove the duplicates. Is there a way to do this?

See that faq by John R Ellis:
http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/photoshop-elements-faq.htm#_Find_and_delete
That works with PSE6.
Once you have selected a number of files, you can either:
- right click, choose stack and automatically suggest photo stacks
- or the find menu, 'by visual similarity'

I can't stack photos (previously in version sets) imported via "Upgrade PSE Catalog". Why not?

I am currently using LR 3.6 on a Windows 7 OS/ HP laptop. Previously, I organized my photos using PSE 9 Organizer. When I switched to LR 3, I selected the option to upgrade my PSE Catalog to bring my photos into LR. LR imported all the photos and keywords/ratings but not my version sets or smart albums. I understand LR doesn't have version sets so I was willing to manually restack my photos but now LR is not giving me that option. Any pictures that were previously in a PSE version set are showing as unstackable (all the stack options are grayed out) even if they are located in the same folder on my hard drive. I'm having trouble finding anything on the web that addresses this issue. Any help/direction would be much appreciated as my catalog is rather cumbersome at the moment.
Thank you,
Sierra

If dj_paige's suggestions don't help, check to make sure that Lightroom thinks both photos are in the same folder. When I converted from PSE 8, I had some photos in version sets in the same actual folder that LR thought were in different folders whose name differed only by case (e.g. "MyFolder" and "myfolder"). Thus, LR refused to stack the photos upon catalog conversion.
You can check this by selecting each of the suspsect photos in turn, right-clicking, and selecting Go To Folder In Library.

Using PSE catalog/organizer with CS5

I have been using PSE 7 for a while and have just transitioned to Photoshop CS5.
I would like to use the catalog from PSE for organizing photos, and PS CS5 for editing.
In the PSE preferences I have tried to notify PSE that I want to use PS CS5 as the supplementary editor. All I get is a message that says I do not need to choose PS as the other editor as PSE already supports using PS from the edit menu and edit toolbar (which I can`t see how that would happen).
It is my guess that PSE catalog/organizer and PS CS5 do not interact, and that I can use both but independently.
Is my guess correct?

Thanks, MTSTUNER. I now see that option in PSE Edit menu. However, when I select it there is a message that Thumbnails are being updated, and a copy of the photo is made in the organizer. PS does not launch, and if I launch PS first, the photo still does does not appear in PS.

Fixed Video CreationDate Sorting After Converting PSE Catalog

My experience with the problems of sorting videos properly by creating date nearly caused me to give up and go back to PSE Organizer...but I dug in, hacked out a solution, and now I'm sharing it in case it helps anyone else. This worked for me...but please realize that I could have destroyed my own catalogs if things weren't all as expected. My Python script below is a down & dirty, no frills way to convert and push all the "CORRECT" timestamps in my old PSE10 catalog to the horribly handled and mis-dated VIDEO files in LR4. Here's the script for all those who dare to take the life of their catalogs into their own hands.
# WARNING: Use at your own risk. This worked for me, but could completely    #
#           DESTROY your catalogs for both Lightroom (LR) and Photoshop        #
#           Express (PSE). Copy the {YourFilename}.lrcat from LR and the      #
#           catalog.pse??db from PSE to your local python directory and make   #
#           BACKUP copies of those files before you try to move the modified   #
#           ones back to their proper locations.                               #
# Auth...erm, Hacker: Sam Birch                                                #
# Purpose: Fix Adobe's repeated inability to apply proper dates to video      #
#           files when importing a PSE catalog. This script gets the list of #
#           all video files in a Lightroom 4.0 catalog (have not verified this #
#           for any other version), looks for the correct creation date/time   #
#           for those files in the PSE catalog, converts the PSE UTC stamp to #
#           MY LR local timezone (US/Central), properly formats the output for #
#           LR's captureTime, and saves them in the LR catalog.                #
#    Notes: 1) I moved from PSE 10 to LR 4. Those are all I wrote this for,   #
#              so do not expect this to work for anything else.                #
#           2) I am in the US/Central timezone, so anyone not in that timezone #
#              will need to edit the script to make it work properly for you. #
#           3) This is a Python script, and I used 2.7.2 on Windows. I also   #
#              needed to add the pytz package to handle the timezone           #
#              conversion properly.                                            #
#           4) I am not a Python expert. I wanted to learn Python, and it let #
#              me accomplish what I wanted. I would appreciate any construct- #
#              ive criticism with proposed improved code, but please don't ask #
#              for modifications or customizations from me. I don't have the #
#              time or knowledge to do so...sorry. As this was simply about   #
#              taking the least time to get LR functional for me, all config   #
#              items are hard-coded and require modification of the script... #
#           5) ALL my video files had unique names. If this is not the case   #
#              for you, THIS WILL NOT WORK RIGHT FOR YOU!!!!                   #
import sqlite3 as lite
import sys
import os, time
from datetime import datetime, timedelta
from pytz import timezone
import pytz
# Your Lightroom catalog (COPIED to the local dir)
lrcon = lite.connect('./test-fresh.lrcat')
# Your Photoshop Express Organizer catalog (COPIED to the local dir)
psecon = lite.connect('./catalog.pse10db')
# Get all the video files in the LR catalog...
lrcur = lrcon.cursor()
lrcur.execute("SELECT Adobe_images.CaptureTime, AgLibraryRootFolder.absolutePath, AgLibraryFolder.pathFromRoot, AgLibraryFile.idx_filename, Adobe_images.id_local FROM Adobe_images, AgLibraryFile, AgLibraryFolder,AgLibraryRootFolder WHERE (Adobe_images.fileFormat=\"VIDEO\") AND (Adobe_images.rootFile=AgLibraryFile.id_local) AND (AgLibraryFile.folder=AgLibraryFolder.id_local) AND (AgLibraryFolder.rootFolder=AgLibraryRootFolder.id_local);")
psecur = psecon.cursor()
rows = lrcur.fetchall()
# Variable setup for stats and timezone conversion...
failcount = 0
successcount = 0
utc=pytz.utc
central=timezone('US/Central')
fmt = "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S" #LR captureTime format string
for row in rows:
    # Attempt to fix through local modified time...but useless since I used
    # PSE backup/restore a few years ago, and that wiped out all original
    # timestamp information. If you are in Windows and your modified timestamp
    # on the file is correct, this should work...since it worked (but didnt' fix
    # my problem due to PSE's terrible version of backup/restor), I thought I
    # would leave the code as inspiration for others it still may work for...
    #myroot = row[1].encode('utf8')
    #mypath = row[2].encode('utf8')
    #myfile = row[3].encode('utf8')
    #myidx = row[4]
    #photo = myroot+mypath+myfile
    #mytimeLR = time.strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M",time.localtime(os.path.getmtime(photo)))
    #print photo," last modified: ",mytimeLR
    #updateTmp = (mytimeLR,myidx)
    #lrcur.execute('UPDATE Adobe_images SET captureTime=? WHERE id_local=?',updateTmp)
    #lrcon.commit()
    # Get the filename (ALL MY VIDEOS HAD UNIQUE FILENAMES, SO THIS LEVEL OF MATCHING SUFFICED FOR MY PURPOSES)
    myfile = row[3].encode('utf8')
    # Set up the parameter for the query to the PSE catalog
    matchParm = []
    matchParm.append(myfile)
    # Get the UTC timestamp and file name from the PSE catalog
    psecur.execute('SELECT search_date_begin, filepath_search_index FROM media_table WHERE lower(filename_search_index)=lower(?)',matchParm)
    pserow = psecur.fetchone() # I could do this because I KNOW all my video files have unique names
    if pserow != None:
        # Go through the hassle of decoding and converting the UTC time to US/Central...as well
        # as from the PSE format to LR format similar but different enought to be annoying...
        psedate = pserow[0].encode('utf8')
        pseUTC = datetime(int(psedate[0:4]),int(psedate[4:6]),int(psedate[6:8]),int(psedate[9:11]),int(pse date[11:13]),int(psedate[13:15]),0,tzinfo=utc)
        lrLocal = pseUTC.astimezone(central)
        lrDate = lrLocal.strftime(fmt)
        # I like seeing progress...
        print myfile, ": ", pserow[0]," -> ", lrDate
        # push the corrected time back into the LR catalog...the only WRITE activity so far...
        updateParm = (lrDate,myidx)
        lrcur.execute('UPDATE Adobe_images SET captureTime=? WHERE id_local=?',updateParm)
        lrcon.commit()
        successcount += 1
    else:
        # I got here because I added some video files to LR after I imported, but before
        # I hacked out this script...
        failcount += 1
print "SUMMARY: success count = ", successcount, " - fail count = ", failcount
if lrcon:
    lrcon.close()
if psecon:
    psecon.close()
Sam

Also, since my camera does not create sidecar files and the video format does not allow for metadata directly...I have problems with date sorting. LR likes the "Creation Date"; while I understand that Windows' NTFS is one of the few operating systems that actually store a "Modified Date", I cannot understand why Adobe would choose to use a data that changes with every copy (Creation Date), rather than the original capture date (Modified Date) when it is clearly available.
My solution is to move my videos to their final destination outside of LR, run the below PowerShell script to set Creation and Accessed dates both to the Modified date for the file, and then import with LR. This is a blatant waste of time, but it seems the least of evils I'm aware of (up to the LR 4.0 I'm currently running). If anyone knows of a better solution, please point me that direction. Otherwise, I'm hoping this may help others in my boat.
If you ask "Why PowerShell when your last script was Python?"...it boiled down to being able to do the most work with the least amount of coding since Powershell has all that's necessary.
Just create the below as FixDates.ps1, then use command.exe in the root of the directory (and sub directories, since this works recursively) you want to do this for. I use this on the directory for the batch I just imported.
OH, AND OF COURSE...USE FOR INSPIRATION/UTILITY AT YOUR OWN RISK. IT WORKS FOR ME, BUT I GUARANTEE NOTHING...
$Videos = Get-ChildItem . -Recurse | where{$_.Extension -match "avi|mov|3gs"}
foreach ($Video in $Videos) {
    Write-Host $Video.fullname
    $Video.CreationTime = $Video.LastWriteTime
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Sam

Lightroom won't upgrade second PSE catalog

I have successfully upgraded my main Photoshop Elements 11 catalog into Lightroom 5.6.
I have a second PSE catalog I'd also like to upgrade, but not import into the main Lightroom catalog (keeping it as a standalone catalog). According to the user manual, there should be a dropdown available from File > Upgrade Photoshop Elements Catalog that will allow me to select this second PSE catalog. However, the dropdown only expands the Catalog info without giving me access to any other catalog. Is there a workaround (or am I doing this wrong)?
For what it's worth, the PSE catalogs are on a separate drive from Lightroom, are in different folder from each other, and the location is not the default location the PSE 11 would have put them. Nevertheless, Lightroom found the first PSE catalog without difficulty.

Per the user's guide, from the Library Module I: File > Upgrade Photoshop Elements Catalog
This brings up a dialog box that shows the most recently upgraded PSE catalog. Then, to quote the user's guide, "To choose a different PSE catalog, click the Elements drop-down menu."
There is no "Elements drop-down menu" within the dialog box to click on. The closest thing is an expand triangle opposite "Catalog info," but when clicked, that only displays more detail about the source PSE catalog I have already upgraded. There doesn't seem to be any way to browse to or select a second PSE catalog — which is what I'm trying to do.

How to transfer PSE catalog to Bridge

I recently switched from a pc to a mac. How do I transfer my extensive PSE catalog to Bridge, which is included with the new PSE 6 for the mac?
Carol

This might be a question for one of the Elements forums, Carol.

How Move PSE Catalog/Photos From Old to New Computer?

I have Photoshop Album 2.0 on my existing Windows computer, with 2200 photos, many of which are tagged and/or edited. I recently bought PSE 4.0 and installed it on my new Windows computer.
Please give advice re: 1)how to move or copy my photo and PSA catalog files, and any other files I need, to my new computer; and 2) import them as necessary into PSE 4.

Preliminary comment is a specific - don't do an import (get photos) over on your new computer. That will not bring in the tags or the edited to original correspondence from your PS Album catalog.
There are basically two methods
1- if your Windows drive letter for the photos files, your folder structure and your Windows User name on the new system will be the same - copy your files from the old to the new computer with same folder locations. An external hard drive is a good intermediate device if you have one available.
1b- is a variation where you do not have exactly the same folder paths on the new machine but you use the MS Access product to edit the Elements catalog database.
2- if your drive letters, folder structure or user name are different on the new machine - or if you are uncertain of the location of your photo files, do an PS Album Full Backup on the old machine and an Elements Restore on the new machine. Do a File > Catalog > Recover before starting the backup. Also, it is very important that you Reconnect All Missing Files successfully because any files not connected will not be backed up. You can direct the Elements backup to an external hard drive folder or a disc(s).
Be aware that not all Creations transfer as is from PS Album 2; tags and photos are fine. Here are some relevant Adobe techdocs to read
http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/330659.html
http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/330800.html
Whether PSE 4 automatically opens your catalog or whether you must do the File > Catalog > Open might vary. In any case, I have always seen a popoup asking you to confirm that you want it converted to the current version.
Of course keep everything as is on your old computer until you have verfied the success on the new computer.
Barb O

Do I need PSE Catalog to re-install after upgrade to Win 8.1?

I was running PSE 11 on Win 7.
I did a PSE backup.
Upgraded from Win 7 to Win 8.1.
Reinstalled PSE 11.
But I haven't started the app yet.
All of my photos are in the correct folders.
I have the PSE backup.
What do I do next? If I start PSE can I get it to rebuild a new catalog by using the info in the backup?
Or is there a better approach?
I only use one catalog. I have about 9,000 pictures in it.
Thanks for any help or advice.

In the newly reinstalled PSE, open the organizer, use the catalog manager (menu File / catalogs...) and see if you have one or several catalogs; a new empty 'My catalog' may have been created, but the old one may still be there in the same default location.
If that does not work, after setting the explorer to show hidden folders, do an explorer search for files named : catalog.pse11db. You may find the old catalog if it has not been wiped in the Win update. Simply double click on that file which will open the organizer with the corresponding catalog.
If you don't find such files, in the catalog manager choose the 'restore backup' option and restore to original location and keeping the folder structure.

Using PSE Catalog Files in Lightroom

I just purchased Lightroom 4.0. Will I be able to import and convert a PSE-7 catalog and thumbnail DB files into Lightroom, or will I have to reimport all items, folder or image at a time?

Gosh, there were two replies to this topic, one disappeared. I imagine I know what's going on there.
In any event, thanks to both of you for the answers and links. I bought Lightroom in the hope that its import and thumbnail generation speed will be superior to that of PSE-7 when confronted with high image count catalogs.
I'm also hoping I can follow the normal procedure for transferring images from one computer to another. IE, copy the images to an new drive, rename that drive file path to the donor drive's, place the catalog and Thumbs DB file where Lightroom can find them, and open the catalog. (Without installing PSE-7 on the destination computer).
I have an answer for you on the frequently asked question, "how many images can PSE handle"?
PSE-5 crapped out on me at about 330,000! As the image count increases, the time between the necessity to run, "catalog > recover" decreases dramatically, and at a certain point, the catalog becomes unrecoverable. I confess to not knowing if this is dependent on image count, total size in GB of image files, or size of the catalog and and thumb DB files themselves.
So, I grabbed Lightroom 4 while I could still get the DVD version. As I'm sure you already know, Adobe is planning to discontinue DVDs of CS product sometime in April, this year.
I expect this is part of Adobe's inexorable march toward subscription only software. Something to look forward to, eh? Another monthly bill in addition to Cable, electric, 3 or 4 phone bills, etc......
Thanks again.

Upgraded to PSE, catalog won't convert

Been using PSASE3.2 with no problems. Just downloaded and installed upgrade to PSE, installed no problems. Runs no problem, although catalog is empty - it didn't notice my current catalog iwth 13000 photos in it.
I followed the procedure on the KB and located my current PSASE catalog to convert. Conversion fails, complains that the catalog is corrupted and I should repair with the creating program. Unfortunately, PSASE does not appear to have this functionality. I saw an article on the KB that said I could hold down CTRL when starting PSASE and I would have an option to repair catalog but I don't get that option.
Any suggestions for how to get my PSASE catalog into PSE?

I have been through a similar hell over the past week, and I was finally able to workaround the issue.
Attempting to upgrade from PSA 2.0.1 to PSE6. When attempting to convert the catalog, it would always bail out at 26% and complain that it could not convert.
I tried a variety of approaches suggested by a variety of users, but no luck. Of course, PSA2 would always claim that its catalog was fine, so no help there.
Finally, this approach (very PAINFUL!) worked. In a nutshell, I recursively deleted half of the photos from the catalog until the PSE6 conversion succeeded. Specifics:
First, backup the PSA2.0 catalog (.psa file and associated folder containing cache) and mark it read-only to prevent accidental corruption. Just for extra safety, make another backup copy in a different directory.
Second, open PSA2. Unhide all of your hidden photos to make sure there are no hidden pics lurking about. Now, simply delete half of the photos from the catalog. Make a note of which range of items you deleted. Close PSA2.
Now, open PSE6 and attempt conversion. Conversion may succeed, as I discovered to my delight. If conversion succeeds, it means that one (or more) of the items you deleted was causing the problem. If it fails, the problem item is still in the catalog.
Close PSE6.
If the conversion in PSE6 FAILED, assume that it will succeed with the other half of your catalog. So go back and attempt to delete the other half of the catalog and see if conversion succeeds.
Do this by restoring your original PSA2 catalog by deleting the current .psa and its folder and copying your backup copies into their place (ctrl + drag). You should still have your read-only backup copy in place!
Open PSA2. You should have your original catalog and photo inventory. Delete the half of the catalog that you did not delete the first time. Close PSA2, open PSE6, and attempt conversion. If it succeeds after having failed the first time, then you know that something in the half which was deleted was what was causing the failure.
Continue this process with smaller and smaller portions of the catalog. With luck, you can zero in on a small number of culprits (hopefully only one).
I spent about an hour doing this last night, went through about 12 iterations, and finally reduced the problem down to one of four possible photos causing the conversion issue. In the final step, I deleted these four photos from the catalog, successfully converted it in PSE6, and then just re-imported those four into PSE6.
When the conversion succeeds, all of my tags and collections came over to PSE6 OK. The PSA2 collections become albums in PSE6. I think I got lucky that only one or two files were preventing conversion; I hope there are no situations where many records are corrupted.
My ultimate goal in going to PSE6 is to use PSE6's ability to write your tags onto the jpg files themselves. Hopefully this will free us in the future from being shackled to PSE's proprietary database system, and allow us to import our tagged jpgs into any future photo-management application, just like we do with MP3 files. The metadata will be embedded in each file, where it belongs!

Move PC pse catalogs from external hard drive to Mac

My PC died, but have pse 10 catalogs on external hard drive. How can I move them from the external drive to my new MacBook Pro?

8373 Picasgogh a écrit:
The photos have already been migrated to the Mac. I have pse 13 for Mac on disk, and was planning to load it, but haven't yet.
Can I load pse 13 on the Mac, and read the pse 10 catalogs from the ehd with the mac?
I don't know about Mac specific features (I am using Windows 7), but it looks like you are using the word 'catalog' in a different meaning than the Organizer definition.
First, to have a common understanding of your situation, let's see the difference between an organizer 'catalog' and what I call your 'picture library'.
Your library is all your picture files, generally a folder tree on your disk(s).
Your catalog is a special folder managed by the organizer. Imagine you buy a catalog for a paintings museum. It's an independent booklet in which you'll find all the necessary information about all the physical paintings (the library), the location of each one, it's properties (author, size, theme, date...) as well as a small image to show the painting. You find various indexes to help you find by title, author, theme, dates... It's the same for an organizer catalog. There is a booklet (a folder) containing a database for the properties and location of the files, another for the thumbnails and other accessory files and subfolders. You find the location of that folder (each separate catalog has its own folder) by looking at the menu Help/System Information.
I understand you have a copy of your library on the new computer, but what about the catalog(s) folders?

How can I convert a PSE 8 catalog to a PSE 10 catalog? I have tried numerous times over 3 days.

I have repaired the PSE * catalog even though no errors were found. There are no *.avi files in the catalog. The conversion has a slight hang up at 34% and again at 82%, continues to the end and reports that the conversion failed. Why do I and so many others report the same problem? I am using Win 7 pro and have plenty of space on the disk. I have too much info in the catalog to lose now as I have been labeling all my slides for eventual backup onto DVD's to send the approprate photos to friends. How do I make this conversion successfully when all the suggested methods do not work or is it better never to get an Adobe PSE upgrade?

Do you have any unsupported video files in the catalog such as AVCHD (which requires Premiere Elements) which may be causing the conversion to stall.
If not, try launching as admin by going directly to the application. Close the Organizer and go to:
C: >> Program Files (x86) >> Elements 10 Organizer
Right click on the file “PhotoshopElementsOrganizer.exe” and choose Run As Administrator.
Then go to:
File >> Catalog >> Convert
Try selecting your PSE8 catalog again and clicking the Convert button.
N.B. the exe file will be in Program Files on 32 bit windows.

Cannot reinstate catalog after returning PC (Windows 7) to factory settings (because of worm infection). Catalog was backed up on external drive but not using PSE backup facility. Cannot find and *.tly file. Is this hopeless?

Cannot reinstate catalog after returning PC (Windows 7) to factory settings (because of worm infection). Catalog was backed up on external drive but not using PSE backup facility. Cannot find and *.tly file. Is this hopeless?

If you made backups of all of your photos and your catalog file using some third-party method (i.e. not using the PSE catalog backup command), then you should be able to restore everything.
Step 1. Put the photos in the EXACT SAME LOCATION as before. For example, if they were in subfolders of C:\Users\<username>\Documents, then they must go into the exact same subfolders of C:\Users\<username>\Documents.
Step 2. Move the catalog file to wherever you want it to be, and then double-click on it.

Psedbtool, a utility for PSE 6 and 7 catalogs

Ive created a free utility, psedbtool, for use with Adobe Photoshop Elements (PSE) 6.0 and 7.0 (Windows only). With psedbtool you can:
- Detect problems with the locations of files recorded in PSEs catalog.
- Extract the catalog contents into text files readable by Excel and other tools.
- Write the metadata of cataloged photos and files more reliably than with PSE.
This helps you maintain your PSE catalog, work around PSE bugs, use third-party tools with your catalog, and migrate your files and metadata into other programs.
To download psedbtool, go to http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/.
This is the first version, so Im sure there are bugs and misfeatures. Please email bugs, suggestions, and feedback (click on my name above for my address).

I'm afraid I won't be doing a version for PSE 5 :-( The internal database schema for versions 5 and earlier is completely different. It's also a lot easier to poke in the version 5 database using Microsoft Access.

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