Specifying destination and folder strudture when restoring

Question

I am moving from PSE 11 on my  old computer to PSE 13 on a new computer. On the old computer I created a catalog backup. Photos are in various folders in c:\users\rrr\pictures. When I restored the catalog in  the new computer with PSE 13 after specifying that the folder structure be retained, it put the photo folders in c:\users\rrr\my pictures\users\rrr\pictures.
This is a pretty cumbersome path. Basically it duplicates the path. What I would like is to have the files restored to c:\users\rrr\pictures, like it was on the old computer. I can't select c: drive as the destination folder to restore. I get a restore message saying "you do not have access to write to the folder you have selected." I can create a top level folder, such as c:\photos, and restore to that. I assume it will include subpaths in that folder to users\rrr\pictures. An improvement, but still lots of excess. Also, I assume the extra files addressed in the next paragraph will be created.
Also created by the restore in c:\users\rrr\my pictures are folders for My Catalog, My Catalog 1 and Other Photos. Other Photos is empty. My Catalog and My Catalog 1 have a number of files apparently created by Adobe. Can I delete these folders and files?
Thanks.
Adobe could make migration from one computer to another much easier.

Answer 1

Bobh123us a écrit:
Adobe could make migration from one computer to another much easier.
As a matter of fact, that's Microsoft who are the culprits.
To keep things short, Microsoft thought long ago that it was a good idea to show the folder tree with shortcuts for 'documents' and 'images' instead of showing the full path in 'documents and settings'. For most users that's good because the folder tree looks simpler. Some users are puzzled because they can see both ways of showing the folder tree, with or without shortcuts. And they think everything is duplicated...
At that point, Adobe followed the shortcut idea and put the default location for the photo library in the 'My images' default folder.
Then Microsoft changed the default images structure...
That explains you can't get back to the old structure after a restore to the new system.
Being an old user since the beginning of the DOS operating system, I have never followed the suggested 'My images' suggestion and I have always created my own master folder with adequate permissions.
Note that the result of the restore is often to create intermediate subfolders with nothing in them. If you have a structure like C:\A\B\C\D and if there is nothing in B and C, you can move the D folder directly under A with all the subfolders of D. Use the drag and drop method in the 'Folders' panel.