PSE 8 - move catalog from external to internal HD

On my old computer, I moved my catalog from an internal hard drive to an external one. After ages and ages of reconnecting files, I backed it up, put the external HD on the new computer, and restored it. Now I want to copy or move all the files from the slow external HD to the faster internal one. But I can't figure out how to do this? Only the catalog moved but not the individual files.
Any suggestions?

Excellent point. I should have been more specific.
What I did was:
File->backup catalog to CD, DVD or Hard Drive
followed by
File->restore catalog from CD, DVD or Hard Drive
I then selected restore files and catalog to new location, specified a new location on drive C, and selected restore original folder structure.
After all that, I have all my photos but when I click on show properties for one of them, it lists its location as being on the external HD and not the internal drive C.
Hope this helps.

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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.
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I am using Lightroom 5 now. In the earlier version, I was able to create catalog & save them in external HDD. Similarly I could open any catalog from external HDD with the lrcat file extension.
However, in the current version, it does not allow me to create catalog nor retrieve catalog from external HDD.
This means that I have to either transfer all the raw files to the HDD from the external HDD and then create the catalog in the laptop. After finishing all the editing, then copy and transfer everything back to the external HDD.
I cannot imagine if whenever I have to edit something, I have to keep doing transfer between the laptop HDD & external HDD.
Any experts can advise?

I am using LR 5.2 and I do not have this problem. My Raw files are on an external hard drive and my catalog together with its previews and Smart Previews and the CR Cache folder are all on a USB 3.0, 64 GB memory stick. The only thing on the laptop's (Windows 7) internal drive is the LR application. I turn on the external only when importing or exporting/printing and editing is done through the Smart Previews. This setup works smooth as silk for me, so I think you also should be able to work from the external.
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i keep getting the below panic report when i try to move a movie file from my external hd to my mac. My MacBook Pro runs 10.7.5 the hard drive (HD) is formatter to fat 32 so i can hook it to our xbox. The HD is a 4tb seagate backup + desk media. it is partitioned into 2 two TB both with fat 32 format. Please help I dont know what to do.
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I have a laptop that has Photoshop Elements 8. I just got the trial version of Photoshop Elements 9 and loaded it electronically onto a desktop. I would like to get my catalog from the laptop over to the desktop.

Use the back-up and restore facility within PSE. An external hard drive is best, but CD's can be used.
1. Make back-up on the laptop
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It's best to let PSE9 decide the new folder structure if the computers have different operating systems e.g. transferring from XP to Windows 7 otherwise trying to preserve existing file paths may cause problems.
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If I drag and drop, it seems go through my computer, and it's 500 gig of data, that impossible, is there a way to direct copy?
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If I drag and drop, it seems go through my computer
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is there a way to direct copy?
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Moving library from external to internal hard disk

When I started working with Lightroom, I put my library on an external 500GB Lacie hard drive to conserve space on my computer's hard disk.
I now have a new system:
Mac Pro
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How can I move the library from the external hard drive to the new internal drive?
I am working with Lightroom 1.3 and would prefer to move the whole library rather than kludge it by importing catalog by catalog.
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Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance...

Hello Clinton,
Did you solve it! I have the same problem as I want to store my "central" library for all other macs in my family to use when they want to use Itunes, makes sense frome a storage efficiency to me. I stopped by at the mac store in Stockholm and they said it was only to move the music folder, and go in and change under settings and advanced in Itunes to redirect it to the external hard drive and the new music folder.... but no, doesnt work.
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PSE 10 Catalog from old XP laptop to new Windows 7 laptop

Hi,
I have an old laptop with Photoshop Elements 10 and Windows XP. I am now changing to a new laptop with Windows 7 (64). Based on my understanding I should make to following steps:
With old XP laptop: Create a full backup of the catalog to an external harddrive using PSE 10 Organizer's Backup Catalog -function.
Install PSE 10 SW to the new Windows 7 laptop.
Restore the backup from the external harddrive to new laptop using Restore Catalog -function.
Deactivate PSE 10 from the old XP laptop.
However, I am a bit puzzled with the step #3 and I thought I ask first before doing anything.
In the old XP laptop I have all the pictures in the D:\<my username>\My Documents\My Pictures -directory. In that directory I have different kind of sub-folders for my pictures.
In the new Win 7 laptop I should have those in D:\userdata\<my username>\My Documents\My Pictures -directory.
As you can see there is a slight difference in those directory-paths. Due to that I assume I cannot use "Original Location" as a restore method. However, I want to keep those sub-folders which I have under My Pictures, so I cannot use "New Location" either. But if I use "New Location with the Restore Original Folder Structure" I guess I wll have something like D:\userdata\<my username>\My Documents\My Pictures\<my username>\My Documents\My Pictures or...?
So, just asking what is the proper way to proceed if I want to have same folder structure under My Pictures - folder, but use Windows 7 default path for My Pictures?

I guess it is always good to ask, since immediately after posting this question I realized I should use "New Location with the Restore Original Folder Structure" and the new location is just D:\userdata\
Of course, if you have any additional comments/instructions I should take into account, just let me know.

Move Library from External to External?

Hello
I have a Macbook Pro. I keep the music I listen to most on my internal drive and much of the CDs that I don't listen to very often on an external drive. I recently ran out of space on my original drive (Thanks Time Machine!) and now want to move my External Drive library to my new 500GB external drive.
Simply moving them doesn't change the location in iTunes. Is there an easy way to do this? I do not want to "consolidate" as it shows in the documents from Apple. That will move my internal drive music to the external and defeat the purpose of what I am trying to accomplish.
Thanks in advance.

Hi these 2 articles may help. I personally have had experience in doing it the wrong way. That's why I have included the second article, because when you do it the wrong way itunes "loses" all your songs. Hopefully the first article will preclude the need for the second.
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301895
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I put all my music, audiobooks, tv shows, movies into a separate folders under the "Itunes Media". I also have the xml and database files on my external hard drive as well. I just purchased a new computer, and I don't want to weigh it down by having all that media on my internal hard drive.
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OK, you don't get to mess around with iTunes Media as a file name.
iTunes does it and tags it, you don't.
Depending on what you did back then you may only need to change the folder name and then use the "Add Folder" command (Call it 'gramps or something' just not iTunes Media..)
Make sure you have a back up first.
If you really made it impossible you'll have to add folders to music, tv, movies, and so on, one folder (folder not file unless you went for micro-manage in which case it will be one file at a time.) at a time.
For future reference here's how iTunes works : http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/the-complete-guide-to-backing -up-your-itunes-library/
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The HD was recently replaced in my iMac. Fortunately I had backed up my FCPX events and projects to folders on an external drive. I have down loaded FCPX again to the new HD but I'm unable to move my project back into FCPX. Having opened FCPX, I then open the project library, select the external drive, open the folder containing my project but the "current version fcpproject" is grey (not available). I was however able to drag the "fcpevent" file into the event library.
Any help will be appreciated

Since there is no disclosure triangle on your external showing in your project library, there are two possibilities:
1) There are no projects presently located on the drive.
2) Project files are on the drive but FCP can't see them because they are not at the root level of the drive.
So either way, to straighten this out you will have to move some files in the Finder – even though best practices (as both Tom and Luis have pointed out) are to stay within FCP to do that.
Move the existing CurrentVersion file to a temporary folder to hide it from FCP.
Unless you know that the Ball project is at a specific location on your external, do a spotlight search on Final Cut Projects. If something comes up, with FCP closed, navigate to it in the Finder and move it to the root level of the external drive. Then open FCP and it should now be accessible in your project library. Select it in the library; go to File>Move Project. Things should now work.
But if you don't have another copy on your external, open FCP and hot the plus button at the bottom of project library and create a new project. That will create a Final Cut Projects Folder in your Movies folder (which is where it should be in your home directory). Close FCP. Open the temp file and drag the CurrentVersion file that you hid to the Final Cut Projects folder.
Hopefully, you wil now be able to get back to work.
Russ

Can I change the file path that itunes reads my music files from? 65000 files trying to be transferrd from external to internal HD. I dont want itunes to manage my collection, just read it. thanks

Can I change the file path that itunes reads my music files from?
I have about 65000 music files that i have transferrd from my external to a new laptop internal HD.
I have organised the folders myself as I use a PC and do not want itunes to organise the folders because when I'm searching through music on windows it is sorted out by artists/albums with 'the...(eg The Beatles)' under 'T' instead of 'B'.
Long story short.... Is there any way that I can keep my itunes library as it is on the external HD and copy it to the new laptops C drive, keep all the info (playlists etc) and still have the same folder structure as on the external HD?
Or, is there any way of making windows sort things in alphabetical order like it is in itunes (eliminating the 'the' issue)?

The files that weren't inside the media folder on the original machine need to be copied over to exactly the same paths as they had on the source machine. See this thread for an ongoing discussion of a similar problem. See also this post on migrating the iTunes library.
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