Re-connecting missing files.

For years my wife and I have shared a computer; she puts her pictures in Windows Picture Viewer and I put mine in PSE. This has always caused problems, but now ALL my pictures are "Missing", some 5,000 of them. It would take forever to "re-connect" them. Is there a quicker way? Can I re-install PSE 9? Should I forget using one computer for her pictures AND mine? I do have all the photos backed up on flash drives, and most of mine are also on photoshop's online backup. Should I start fresh with another computer just for mine, or can Windows Picture Viewer and PSE ever co-exist amiably on the same computer? My wife doesn't want to deal with PSE at all; she just looks at her pictures and e-mails them, and I don't want hers (they're all of dolls) cluttering up my catalog.
Thanks

I doubt that Windows Picture Viewer is the problem. And it sounds to me like you have two problems: 1) your photos have gotten disconnected from your catalog, and 2) her photos are in your catalog.
For the second problem, make sure the options are set in PSE to add photos only when you tell it to. (I'm still on PSE7, so I won't try to list the options.) You can delete her photos from your catalog without affecting the actual photos -- just don't check the box to delete from disk. That should solve the problem. (I'm assuming that she is not intentionally altering or re-organizing YOUR photos, which I think is what photodrawken assumed. If she is, then set up separate Windows users -- see below.)
For the first problem, it sounds like you (or perhaps she) renamed or moved the folder containing all your photos, and did it outside PSE. This could even happen if you changed to a different Windows user name. The solution is to undo the folder rename or move, and do it from PSE. When you initiate the rename or move from inside PSE, PSE updates the catalog. When you do it from Windows Explorer, PSE doesn't get the message.
In general, if two people have conflicts in the way they use a computer, they don't have to get two computers, unless the conflict is that they want to use the computer at the same time! Just set up two Windows users. This keeps the files separate. If the conflict is over too little disk space, upgrade the HD or the computer.
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