PSE-8 Moving to New Computer But Keeping Photos on Ext. Drive

I'm a little stumped on what to do. I'm changing to a new computer. All of my photos are on an external drive. I would like to keep them on that drive. From everything I see, I have to do a full backup and move all of the photos to a new drive then do a restore. I just want to move (load) the actual program, leave the photos on the original drive (which I backup daily) and still have all of my tags. Is that possible? How? Thanks....

The backup/restore method is generaly the simplest (though not the fastest) way of moving your catalog and photos to a new computer:
http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/photoshop-elements-faq.htm#_Move_your_photos_1
In your case, you could move your catalog folder to the external drive using File > Catalog > Move. Then you could plug the drive into the new computer, start PSE, and do File > Catalog > Open and navigate to the catalog folder on the external drive. If everything appears to open properly, then do File > Reconnect > All Missing to ensure that PSE is finding all your cataloged folders.

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