Retrieving Photoshop Album Starter Edition catalog

I am unable to retrieve photos from my Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition. Asked for an unlock code, but never got one via email. Called Adobe. They said this forum was the only way I could solve the problem. Huh? Anyone out there been through this? I can't access five years worth of photographs.

Download Photoshop Elements 9. Open the program and when the sky blue coloured panel appears, click on 'ORGANISE'.
This will open your new photo catalogue (all in black and grey). Click on 'FIND' at the top left corner, and then click on 'BY HISTORY' and then click on 'IMPORTED ON'. This should open your entire list of pics that you have on Album Starter 3.2 and on hard disc and CD.
Click on the ones you want to retrieve and then copy them to disc or hardrive in a new file. You should also see the images in the new catalogue on the screen.
I have been trying for months to get to my photos and this seems to do the trick. Good luck!

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I am using Adobe Photoshop Album starter edition 3.0 for years.
1.- I have upgraded to 3.2 now, but I don't know how to convert the catalog from the old version to the new version. Where is this documented?
2.- By default Adobe installs the catalog file on c:\documents and settings\all users\... - I have now installed adobe on another drive, D. But still the catalog is by default saved under c:\documents and settings\all users\... I need to have it on another location. How can I change the catalog file location?
Thank you.
Steven Van Bauwel

Welcome to the forum.
Unfortunately, you have posted to the Photoshop Windows forum, which deals with issues on the full Photoshop program. You want to post to the Photoshop Album Starter Edition Forum (a different software).
Good luck,
Hunt

Lr cannot read Catalog .psa (Photoshop Album Starter Edition 3.2)

Hello,
I use Photoshop Album Starter Edition 3.2 to manage my 12'000 photos (with tags) and I'll move to Lightroom. But I cannot import the catalog .psa into Lr2.3.
Lr can read only catalog .lrcat, .lrdb, and .aglib !
I renamed catalog .psa to catalog .aglib etc. but nothing happenend.
My idea, I will :
1. Install PSE 7,
2. read catalog .psa (is it possible?)
3. export into catalog .lrcat, .lrdb, or .aglib (is it possible?)
4.then import with Lr with all the tags
Is there someting easyer to do ?
My brain is boiling :-\
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PSE7 should be able to convert your catalog. I don't really know, as I haven't tried and haven't read about converting PSA Starter Edition catalogs, but I am optimistic.
The problem is that the current version of Lightroom will not read PSE7 catalogs. Probably when Lightroom 3 comes out, it will read PSE7 catalogs. So, I would search the Internet to see if the trial version of PSE6 or PSE5 is available somewhere for download. If you can find one of those versions, they will convert your PSA catalog as well. Lightroom definitely does convert PSE5 and PSE6 catalogs.

Photoshop album starter edition 3.2 how to retrieve photos from obsolete locked file?

photoshop album starter edition 3.2 how to retri
eve photos from obsolete locked file?

Try in that product's forum
http://forums.adobe.com/community/ps_album_starter

How do i retrieve photos from Adobe photoshop album starter edition?

Hi, Im am trying to migrate photos from a locked version of Adobe Photoshop Album starter Edition to Adobe Photoshop Elements 11, I have tried Windows Explorer search with no luck, and despite being able to see the file names in the Starter Edition before the register page covers it. Even though I would have followed the default path I can't seem to get past the "Application data" part of the path as this is missing from my selections, any further suggestions? kind regards Penny0208

Thanks Pat, I've tried that to no success (quite a few different ways) even though I can see the file name in the page before the registration page covers it, and the *.jpg brings up over 32000 files, the problem here is that some images I know are also duplicated in the "my digital photos" file but how do I know if they are all there? there are over 4700 photos in the Album starter catalogue.The frustrating thing is I know they are somewhere perhaps safely in the "My digital photos" but what is making me wonder is my new Photoshop Elements 11 keeps reminding me of missing files??

I do not wish to use Photoshop Album Starter Edition 3.2

How do I retrieve all of my photos and replace them back into "My Pictures"?

Hey Anita,
Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition is not a software that stores images but it rather stores their location in a catalog. So you can uninstall the application if you don't want to use it further and your images will remain in the locations they were already in.
Cheers,
Chhaya

How do I get my videos to all work correctly in Photoshop Album Starter Edition Ver. 3.0?

I have been using version 3.0 for the last 3 years and had no problems with any of my videos playing once they were downloaded from my mobile phone or camera to version 3.0 until August 2007 but now a lot of them say 'The selected file cannot be played'. All the files that don't work are '.AVI' files and the only thing I can see they have in common is that in the file name it says -1x-1 next to the file size and length of the clip, whereas the working files have full numbers i.e. 640*480. I still have a couple of files downloaded after August 2007 that do play but not many. Is there any way I can change the settings or recover these files so they will actually play?

It seems to me that these problematic files may not be .avi files, or are corrupted; it doesn't seem likley that it's a setting in Photoshop Album Starter Edition.
Do any of those files play in Windows Media player? Another possibility could be that these files are sidecar files to your video files; are there similarly-named video files that work fine? If so, then I would suspect that these .avi files are, again, not .avi files, and could be simply text info that goes along with your .avi files, and could be ignored (removed from the catalog).
-Mark

How to transfer metadata (tags etc) from Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition 3.2 to A P Elements 8

I have just bought the Adobe Elements 8. I was told that this product was the upgrade product from the trial version of Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition 3.2. Can't find a clear solution in this forum of how to transfer the metadata to the Adobe Elements 8 and continue the indexing with the latest product. Hopefully somebody can help.
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If you still have your 3.2 psa catalog in your "My Catalogs" folder, try
downloading PSE5 from here:
http://www.johnrellis.com/photoshop_elements_5.0_trial_version.exe.
PSE5 should be able to find your catalog and you can convert it into PSE5.
If that doesn't work, it may be because you weren't able to run "reconnect
all missing files" in PSA3.2 before attempting the conversion. If all your
photos were still connected, this should work. Then you can open PSE8 and
convert PSE5 into PSE8. Do a "reconnect all missing files" in PSE5 before
you do the conversion. Even though all my files were connected when I
converted PSA2 into PSE5, PSE5 had about 30 unconnected photos.
Good luck!
http://www.johnrellis.com/photoshop_elements_5.0_trial_version.exe

Tried to use adobe photoshop album starter edition 3.0 today and tell me to register

It tells me to register and i will get an email with a 'unlock' code shortly.
I open the email, it says' adobe photoshop album starter edition is no longer avaiable and that i should go to their website and find something else appropriate! I JUST WANT MY PHOTOS OFF ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ALBUM STARTER EDITION that i have already got but it wont let me in at all! i have heaps of photos of my kids as babies and all house and family stuff! WTF! please help if you have a solution. ive had this program over 2 yrs and ALL OF A SUDDEN. out of the blue i cant access it and its tellin me to buy a new version! JUST WANT MY PHOTOS!!!!!!!!!!!!! HELP

Starter Edition Answer
Friday, November 27, 2009
8:15 AM
It is a common misconception that Starter Edition 'stores', or copies, your files into it. But the program does not move or copy files at all, rather it scans your system's My Pictures directory, and generates miniature versions of your pictures (called thumbnails) so that you can browse a 'flat' list of thumbnails of your photos, overcoming the inconvenience of having to go into separate folders in Windows Explorer to have to find files.The thumbnails, as well as any tags, and Albums that you create in Starter Edition are all stored in the Photoshop Album catalog file, separate from your pictures, and your pictures remain where you originally copied them to your computer.
If you use Photoshop Album to subsequently download files from a digital camera or scanner, the default location where the program will create those files would be in the My Pictures>Digital Camera Photos folder. But if you do NOT use Photoshop Album Starter edition to download files from your camera, then you will find that folder empty.
The thumbnails in the Starter Edition catalog will exist, even if you decide to move or delete the original photos that were added to the program. This will cause files in the Photoshop Album catalog to become 'disconnected' from the original photos. To reconnect the files, you can use the File>Reconnect Missing files command to see if the program can locate the original files in a new location, and once again re-link the catalog thumbnails to the files they once referenced.
Since Photoshop Album has been discontinued, I recommend that folks find an alternative solution. One alternative that will preserve most of what you've created in Starter Edition is the Photoshop Elements 8 trial. Install that, and it will automatically convert the Photoshop Album catalog to a current format, and the program will not time out, as Starter Edition did. If you want to purchase more Editing power, you can also choose to purchase the full program, but it's not required.
If you are like many who have come to this forum wondering how you can get to your photos, now that the program has become locked or expired, don't worry; your photos have never been moved by Photoshop Album; they remain wherever you intially put them, on your hard drive. To get to them, you can navigate your file system using Windows Explorer. They are typically in your My Documents>My Pictures folder. Here is a handy How-To that you could refer to to find photos on your system, as well as some other tips for how you can use folders to keep your photos organized: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/maintain/filemgmt.mspx
Hope those tips help!
-Mark

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Ok my wife has been using Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition 3.2 for als long as I can remember and I have manage to transfer the tags and everything else once before but I dont think I can do it again. I am about to buy and new computer, I am prepared to buy the new elements but need to know if I update on my old computer will the tags remain, and then can I back up the catalog and transfer to the new computer

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I have Photoshop Elements 3.0.1 (including the Organizer) that I bought a few years ago. I just noticed there is a Photoshop Album starter edition 3.2 free download. Are the version numbers comparable so that I could update my Organizer with a more recent version for free? If so would I need special procedures to transfer all by photos into the newer version?
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Beware that as time goes by, it will be less and less likely you'll be able to convert your PSA catalog to a later version of PSE. Already, a number of people have reported difficulty converting old catalogs to PSE 7, and some have had to resort to finding old copies of PSE 5, converting from 3 to 5, and then converting from 5 to 7. Unfortunately, Adobe provides no effective support for such issues and seems unconcerned about the numerous bugs reported in the last two years with the catalog conversion process.
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Adobe generally releases new versions of PSE in the fall in preparation for the Christmas season.

How can I transfer my Photos INCLUDING tags from Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition 3.2 on a new?

I have some thousand photos on my old PC using Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition 3.2.
How can I transfer them on a new PC (and a new more professional photoshop edition) without losing the tags?
Thanks for any help.

If you still have your 3.2 psa catalog in your "My Catalogs" folder, try
downloading PSE5 from here:
http://www.johnrellis.com/photoshop_elements_5.0_trial_version.exe.
PSE5 should be able to find your catalog and you can convert it into PSE5.
If that doesn't work, it may be because you weren't able to run "reconnect
all missing files" in PSA3.2 before attempting the conversion. If all your
photos were still connected, this should work. Then you can open PSE8 and
convert PSE5 into PSE8. Do a "reconnect all missing files" in PSE5 before
you do the conversion. Even though all my files were connected when I
converted PSA2 into PSE5, PSE5 had about 30 unconnected photos.
Good luck!
http://www.johnrellis.com/photoshop_elements_5.0_trial_version.exe

Storing Notes with Photoshop Album Starter Edition 3

I am new to Photoshop Album Starter Edition and was working with it yesterday to catalog some old family photos that I had scanned. When I was cataloging the photos, I added a caption and notes for each photo under the properties tab. When I burned the photo files to a CD and loaded the CD to another computer using Photoshop Starter Edition 3, I able to see the caption under properties but there was nothing in the Notes field. I'd like to use the notes field to store comments about the photo and then be able to burn the CD to share with other family members. Is there a way to burn the photos to a CD and be able to see the Notes information?

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Cannot register my Photoshop Album Starter Edition!

Hi,
I'm using your free software Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition 3.0, on Windows XP SP2 platform.
I would like to register it, but each time I try I encounter the following problem:
in the window "Status", after "Checking for Internet connection" and "Attempting to connect to Internet" dialog boxes, I receive the
report "Unable to connect to site".
What's happening? I use the broadband LAN Internet connection, so there can't be any problem with Internet access, even firewall is
not "guilty" (I tried to switch it off, but the problem with registration persists).
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If it's any help the thumbs.5.cache (at least in Windows XP) should be in:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Adobe\Catalog Folders\My PSE5 Catalog
where My PSE5 Catalog is whatever your new PSE5 Catalog is called. It's a hidden
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