Retrieving catalog after computer crash

Elements 10. Win 7.
My computer crashed and I reinstalled PSE 10. Last time this happened, a few years ago I had to rebuild the entire catalog. With around 10K photos, it took days. I haven't opened PSE 10 since reinstalling and wanted to make sure that I don't make any mistakes in the process. Does any one have any caveats or tips before I launch into this process?

If they are gone, they are gone, unless you can find something in the recovery folder (if you have CS6 or CC)
http://blogs.adobe.com/jkost/2012/04/background-save-and-auto-save-features-in-photoshop-c s6.html
But you are the second person in the last week who lost hours and hours of work. The last one had the computer crash as it was saving, so even though he was using good practice, and periodically hitting Ctrl s to save, the psd file became corrupted.
So best practice is to save big projects with fifferent file names as often as you need for safety.
I am currently working on a laptop because my main system is broken, but I have access to all my files because I am working with backups on external drives. Drives are cheap nowadays, and lost data is too terrible to even think about.

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