Restoring a catalog in elements 7 on a new PC

I've just updated my PC and have moved my photoshop elements catalog from my old computer to the new one following the backup and restore instructions on the Adobe site. The process has worked okay with all the pictures (including raw files) being visible in photoshop organizer on my new machine. However, the indvidual folders and the picture files within these folders are not present in the 'my pictures' folder of my new pc as they were on the old machine. I know the Adobe instructions state that this will be the case and that the folder structure will be flattened. My question is therefore can I retore the original folder structure I had on my old machine with each picture in the folder it occupied on my old machine? If so, how is this achieved? My old machine ran XP and the new one runs Windows 7. Thanks in advance for any advice.

In the Organizer, highlight the appropriate images and use File...Move to move them to their new location. The "Move" dialog box has a "Browse" button to browse to the location and also create a new folder.
Ken

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I currently am using Elements 9 with Windows 7. I will be getting a new computer with Windows 8.1. I have 5 catalogs. All are backed up on external hard drives. I plan to install Elements 9 on the new computer and then restore the catalogs. The catalogs are in chronological order. Should I restore them in any particular order, and if so, should I do the more recent catalog or the oldest one first?
I guess I should also ask if Elements 9 will be compatible with Windows 8.1.
Thanks for any advice!

Darlene Fr a écrit:
I currently am using Elements 9 with Windows 7. I will be getting a new computer with Windows 8.1. I have 5 catalogs. All are backed up on external hard drives. I plan to install Elements 9 on the new computer and then restore the catalogs. The catalogs are in chronological order. Should I restore them in any particular order, and if so, should I do the more recent catalog or the oldest one first?
I guess I should also ask if Elements 9 will be compatible with Windows 8.1.
Thanks for any advice!
I think Elements 9 is compatible with Windows 8.1.
You can restore your catalogs in whichever order you want. They are totally independent.
http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop-elements/kb/backup-restore-move-catalog-photoshop.html
The only trap you might fall in could be if you have different catalogs pointing to the same images (a very bad idea since what you do in a catalog is ignored by the other(s)). Then the order of restore would be meaningful and you should restore in chronological order. Alternatively, you could ignore the backup order and point each restore to a different master folder; that way you end up with a faithful restore of your backups at the price of having duplicate image files. That's what I'd do if the catalogs having common photo files are sub-catalogs of a bigger one.

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How do I get my catalogs from elements 8 to elements 11?

It depends...
If you are still on the same computer and OS, the Organizer in PSE11 (or PSE12) will be able to convert the old catalog to its own format, while keeping the old catalog unchanged.
If you are changing computer, drive or OS, the best method is via a full backup and restore:
http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop-elements/kb/backup-restore-move-catalog-photoshop.html

Restoring a catalog from backup and incremental backups on external Hard drive

Hello!
I recently bought a new computer where I installed again Elements 8 (that's the one I'm currently using). From my old computer, I have an initial complete catalog backup which was saved in a folder (I called this folder "Complete catalog backup") on an external hard drive. I also made then subsequent incremental backups which were saved in different folders called "Incremental backup 1", "incremental backup 2" etc. on the same external hard drive. Apparently in Element, I discovered that incremental backups can't be saved in the same folder as initial complete backup!
How should I proceed now to restore my catalog on my new computer? I know how to do it when one has only a complete initial catalog backup, but now I have also several incremental backups (contained in folders "incremental backup 1", "incremental backup 2" etc.), I just don't know how to proceed.
Some help would be very much appreciated.
Thanks a lot

First and foremost: Forget re-importing. You would loose all your edits. Importing is strictly only for images that have never been imported before.
The remedy for "missing" photos is to re-link them.
In Lr / Grid View right-click the top-most folder in the folders panel. By "top-most" I mean the parent folders of all folders. If you have several parent folder right-click one of them.
Then select <Find Missing Folder>, navigate to the corresponding folder on your new drive E and select it. Do this for every other parent folder. If the folder names and structure haven't changed Lr will find the sub-folders on its own.
For more see here: http://www.computer-darkroom.com/lr2_find_folder/find-folder.htm

HELP!!! CAN'T RESTORE OLD CATALOG TO NEW HARD DRIVE

July 12, 2010
Hello,
Thank you for any help you can give with this rather desperate problem.
I have installed a replacement hard drive in my Dell Windows Vista laptop and reloaded Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0. I am unable to reconnect Elements with my old photo organizer catalog.
Thus the system says I have Elements installed, with a catalog with zero photos in it. When in fact I have 12,000 fotos all captioned, dated and tagged for the Elements organizer.
Elements HELP has nothing about reconnecting to an old photo catalog.
Is it possible (???) that Elements does not keep the catalog separate from the program itself – so that when the program itself is lost in the switch to a new hard drive, the catalog is also lost (unless the user made a backup somewhere)?
Anyway, here’s what happened:
I had made a fairly recent backup of the catalog to an external hard drive, so I copied that backup onto my new hard drive. Then in the Elements Organizer, I clicked on File; Restore Catalog from CD, DVD or Hard Drive. In the window that popped up, I directed it to the backup file (Backup.tly) and specified a location for restoring files and catalog. Then I clicked on Restore.
Up came a window that named one of my 12,000 fotos and said these approximate words “File already exists, do you want to overwrite it?”. I finally said Yes, and then it went on to another of my 12,000 fotos and asked the same question. I assume it planned to go through all 12,000 fotos, but I can’t imagine why.
But instead of continuing, I then got a window that said, “Error encountered while restoring catalog. It is recommended that you contact your disc drive manufacturer and upgrade to the latest available firmware for your specific disc drive before trying again.” (By the way, all my other programs are working fine on the new hard drive.)
I sure hope someone out there can tell me what’s going on. Thank you so much.
Don

You copied the backup onto your new hard drive? Yes or no? Where was it before?
Then did you try to restore to the exact same location where you placed the copy?
HEre is the proper way to restore a catalog: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/402/kb402894.html
By the way ... you say: "Elements HELP has nothing about reconnecting to an old photo catalog." I disagree.
You say: "Is it possible (???) that Elements does not keep the catalog separate from the program itself" not only is it possible, but Elements does indeed keep the catalog separate from the program itself.

How do you import Elements 5 catalog to Elements 13?

HI,
Was running Elements v5. I bought a new Win8 computer and the organizer will not open so I (finally) upgraded to Elements13. I installed v13. I thought I would easily be able to open my old catalogs (3 of them). However, I did not see that open.
I can see the psa files in my v5 library. BUt, v13 does not see or recognize those.
Am i doing something wrong or is that capability not a feature?
As i write this, i am Restoring a backup from a tly file. I'd still rather see the original catalog file be opened.

Yes it is 64-bit. I'm still getting used to that and have see it does make a difference. I am at work at the moment so I cannot run the conversion utility, but that looks promising.
On a related/similar note, before work this AM. since the catalog conversion failed, I decided to try to import all my images. They are sitting on an external hard drive. The good news is that when I started the import, PE13 recognized the tags that were assigned in PE5. That was very important to me. .
So, it looks like I may have two feasible paths to follow:
1. Re-import all the images and re-use my tags
2. Run the 64-bit catalog conversion utility and import/restore my catalogs
I frankly cannot tell which option is easier, better or preferred. My objective is to get back to an arrangement whereby I can view all my photos in the organizer (by catalog). My catalogs are quite simple. Most all images were in a base catalog. I was running on a 2006 WinXp machine using PE5. The catalog had ~ 30000 images. It was bogging down when I'd scroll through the catalog. I recently created catalog #2 for some special activities (I.e., Kids Sports) so that I could view and retrieve them easily. I might have 1000 images in this catalog.
My preferred viewing is to see everything in one catalog, and use tags to segregate them for specific viewing/usage. I suspect that has a performance impact. Any thoughts on best approach?
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Can't restore a catalog. Please help!!!!!!

Hi all! If anyone could help me I would so appreciate it.
The situation is that my motherboard is fried on my old laptop; however, I luckily did a full backup to an external hard drive less than a month ago (I could deal with replicating my photoshop efforts for a two week or so period but not for the years of effort that I have put into my catalog of thousands of photos).
My old laptop used Vista and my new laptop is running Windows 7.
I restored all of my files from the external drive to my new laptop and after much searching and research, I finally found the Photoshop Elements 9 (PSE9) catalog file pse9db.
I installed PSE9 onto the new laptop and when I go to do a restore, the pse9db doesn't show up when I browse for the file. I believe that is because it is searching for a tally (.tly) extension and the .pse9db extension doesn't fit the bill. I never backed up my catalog through photoshop since I foolishly didn't realize that it didn't mean a backup of all my pictures (which I now know). I didn't do the photoshop backup since I backed up my computer files fairly regularly.
So, my catalog is not in the .tly format due to backing it up during regular computer backups rather than using the Photoshop backup tool.
How can I get photoshop to allow my pse9db file to be restored so that I have my catalog back in place?????
I have spent many hours trying to figure this out and I would so appreciate any help!!! I am beyond frustrated at this point.
Thank you in advance for any advice you can offer me.

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picturegal33 wrote:
After doing additional research I stumbled across another idea (it seems simple and inexpensive and if it works, I could have saved myself many wasted hours).
Assuming the hard drive in my old computer is functional, can't I just put it in a hard drive enclosure and then connect via usb to my new laptop and then copy my files from there and shouldn't my pse9db file be intact and easy to find on that hard drive (since photoshop was working fine before the laptop was fried)?
Thank you again! Your knowledge and willingness to share information is greatly appreciated.
You should be able to put the old hard drive in an enclosure. Just make sure you are very careful so you don't zap the hard drive. You may want to read up on some static prevention proceedures.
Also, this is only assuming the hard drive was not also zapped. There is a good chance the power supplie fried other components if it fried the mother board. The thing you don't want to have happen is for a zapped hard drive to damage your new/fixed computer and specifically the new computer USB port.
How did you make your backup of the original computer? What software did you use? Is there any way to search the backup for additional catalog files.
I am realizing that you are all right about it being an empty catalog file. I looked through my external hard drive's backup file by file and it seems that the pse9db file doesn't exist there. I must have found that file on my new computer after I installed PSE 9 (not necessarily when I restored the external drive's files to the new laptop). It must just be the file created upon installation of the software.
I looked through other backup dates sitting on my external drive and still don't see any pse catalog files (the older backups would have had PSE 6, but still couldn't find any).
My only hope is that my old hard drive isn't fried or I have wasted hundreds of hours cataloguing family holidays, family vacations, BBQs, get-togethers with friends, parties, etc. over several years. That thought is enough to make me ill.
With respect to backup types, I must have done different ones. My most recent was through Norton and it looks as though it didn't back up much of anything that wasn't in my user files.
An older backup from July must have been done using the backup software from the external hard drive. I could see file names on that backup and don't see any pse files.
I also have one from this past October; however, I am not sure what I used for the backup, but I can't tell what files are in there since the file names don't show. This backup seems to have strings of letters & numbers for each compressed file so I don't even know if it is there or not.
Maybe I should restore my files using that backup and see what happens. If nothing is there, then I could go ahead and redo the December backup.
Uggghhhhh!!! Thank you again!!!!!

In which order have i to restore my catalog:start whith full backuo, then 1st, 2., 3., ... inkrementelle backup or start whith 3. inkrementell, then 2., 1., an finally full backup?

In which order have i to restore my catalog:start whith full backuo, then 1st, 2., 3., ... inkrementelle backup or start whith 3. inkrementell, then 2., 1., an finally full backup?

Andaleeb,
Thanks,
I think your answer about the order of incremental backups for restoration should be included in the link you provided.
The only hint about that is :
" Note:
If you selected Restore From CD/DVD, Elements Organizer prompts you if more than one disc is required to restore a catalog. Follow the onscreen instructions, which differ depending on whether you’re restoring a single backup set or a single backup set plus one or more incremental back ups."
Especially because starting from the most recent incremental backup is exactly the contrary to what most users would expect.
Following onscreen instructions is good, but when those instructions go against what is expected... .

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I have Photoshop Elements 10 on a new Mac, using Yosemite 10.1.1 - PE locks up every time I try to sign in. This software was restored to this computer from Time Machine after a theft of my old Mac. How can I fix this?

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What is the correct way to restore the catalog after a disk failure?

I am running the latest Itunes on Vista. The disk failed on my old computer and I have a backup of the catalog file. The music files are on external storage (NAS). I've been searching for instructions on how to restore Itunes.
The catalog is about 1 week out of sync with the music files because I added some music in between backups of the catalog file and the disk failure.
In a perfect world, I'd like to restore the catalog with playlists and the album art.
Are there instructions to accomplish this or do I need to rebuild the catalog from the music files and recode my playlists?

Firstly I don’t have a NAS drive so what I say applies to and external HD, but it should be similar.
When you say catalogue file, I guess you mean the iTunes database files – iTunes Library.itl and iTunes Music Library.xml. The xml file is just used to allow other programs access to the library but can be useful because you can rebuild the itl file from it.
If you want your art work, you need a folder in the iTunes folder called Album Artwork.
So ideally you would like to be able to recover your old iTunes folder from backup.
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I guess you now have your NAS drive mapped into your new computer so you can see it as a drive letter.
So I hope this will work for you…
With iTunes closed, drag the iTunes folder from it’s current location to your desktop. I think the iTunes folder is in Music in Vista.
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How do I create a catalog in elements organizer. I keep getting the error message Catalog could not be opened, an internal programming error has occurred.

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Which version of Photoshop Elements are you using?
Try Holding down the shift key while to start the organizer - that should bring up the Catalog Manager.
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I can't locate my catalog in Elements 8.0 to convert to 10.0

I've watched the tutorial to convert my catalog but I don't have anything that remotely resembles the Organizer on my screen. When I go to File, there is no catalog. I upgraded to Elements 10.0 and also use Lightroom but chose to maintain Elements to do things that Lightroom can't like layers. I don't want all the organization that I've done on my old photos to disappear and don't want to import my Lightroom catalog into Elements. What am I doing wrong? Where would the Elements catalog file reside on my drive and what would the file extension be? I did a search on Catalog and came up empty. I'm using Mac with Lion OS.

LindaCLee wrote:
Thanks for trying. I was on a Chat with someone from the Adobe team and I got no help whatsoever. Basically his response was that I needed to reimport all my phoios. That means I lose all my keywording and editng. What's the point? Ok, I'm just ranting. Really, thanks for all efforts!
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