Struggling moving catalog + pictures

Last weekend I've bought a Macbook pro retina and installed LR4.3 on it.
My desktop pc is windows and my current pictures and catalog are on that machine.
Due to the retina screen, i want to continue editing my pictures on the Mac but I have problems moving the pictures and my previous work to the mac.
I've read a post about just copying the pictures and the catalog to the other pc, open the catalog en just fix the filelocations but that doesn't work. I can select the correct pictures but it seems not to work. LR still reports a missing picture.
Then I've tried the export as catalog option with a portable harddrive. When I connect that to my macbook, I can read the files but LR4 reports that I can't open/edit a catalog from a network location. My idea is to buy a fast USB3 or thunderbolt solution and edit the pictures direcly on it but does that work?? It only seems to work when I copy the exported catalog and picures directly to the macbook en don't run it directly from the external storage.
When I'm doing editing the pictures, I want to copy them back to the desktop machine due to the online backupservice it's running.
So what am I doing wrong? It can't be that hard.
What the best practice in this situation?

A few simple steps:
1) On the computer you want to move away from (I call it old computer from now on): Open Lr. In the Library Module / Folders panel create a new folder. Then drag-and-drop all your image folders on top of that new folder. After that this is the parent-folder for all your image folders.
If you have a single parent folder already you can skip this step.
2) Backup your catalog. Just for safety.
3) Close Lr. With Win Explorer / Mac Finder move or copy (whichever applies for you) your newly created parent folder (together with all its image sub-folders) to the new computer (or an external hard drive).
This is important!: At this point do NOT change the names of the folders or their structure.
4) Copy the Lr catalog, i.e. the file with the extension < .lrcat> to the new computer. You can also copy/move the previews folder, i.e. the folder with the extension < .lrdat> to the new computer, although this is not strictly necessary. If Lr doesn't find previews it will create new ones. Double-click the catalog-file to open Lr with the moved catalog. Naturally this requires that Lr is installed on your new computer.
5) In Library Module / Folders panel right-click the parent folder for all image folders (it should show a question mark) and select <Find Missing folder> or <Update folder loacation>.
Navigate to the location of the parent folder and select it. Lr will find all the subfolders on its own.

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But in fact, you did not move the catalog at all. you made a backup of your catalog, and that is what you should do.
But making a backup catalog does not mean that Lr now opens with the backup catalog.
Having a backup means that there are now 2 catalogs: the "working" catalog and the backup catalog. If you had only one (1) catalog, you wouldn't have a backup.
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But I wonder why you would say your drive got full. Usually the catalog doesn't fill a drive, but your photos are.
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http://tv.adobe.com/watch/creative-suite-podcast-photographers/lightroom-dude-where-are-my -photos/
http://www.computer-darkroom.com/lr2_find_folder/find-folder.htm

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That was good advice, thank you dj. However, and it always seems that there is a however, I was really trying to move 2 catalogs that I had on my old pc in PSE 8..
I backed them both up to an external hard drive, deleted all of the files from my new pc, and then went to the external hard drive and hit the Restore Catalog button. I also established a new Catalog for the second catalog that I was attemting to restore. One loaded nicely and then the other, BUT, the second RESTORE apparently deleted the first! I've done this twice now, with the same results, even switching which one loaded first. What am I doing wrong?
Also, when it does load into the PICTURES library on Win 7 it loads a staggering number of folders and files on top on the final folder where the actual pictures are stored. What a pain to drill down to the actual folders where the pictures are. Anyone know of any harm in moving them up several layers in the folder structure? I even used the Restore option New Location/Restore Original Folder Structure option. It apparently has kept the original structures but it did load a whole pile of folders on top of the pictures.
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Tried searching, but couldn't find my situation.
I have an old computer with a second hard drive (1.5 TB). I pulled it from my old computer and put it in the new computer.
I also copied my "My Catalog" folder which contains the catalog database file (catalog with a type "PSE8DB").
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solodarwest wrote:
Tried searching, but couldn't find my situation.
I have an old computer with a second hard drive (1.5 TB). I pulled it from my old computer and put it in the new computer.
I also copied my "My Catalog" folder which contains the catalog database file (catalog with a type "PSE8DB").
Got the second drive installed fine in my new computer.
Reinstalled Elements 8.
But the File / Catalog dialog box can't seen the existing catalog database. I can browse to the folder, but it doesn't show up.
Old computer was Windows XP. New computer is Windows 7.
Both are using Photoshop Elements 8.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
John
John,
1 - Where are your photo files located ? What is the drive letter assignment of this second drive ?
My suspicion is that the photos (and perhaps also video files) reside on that second hard drive which you physically moved and installed in the new computer.
2 - Where is the PSE Catalog file (both on the old XP system and on the new W 7 system) ? Is that folder containing the PSE Catalog on the C drive or on that second hard drive which is now installed on the new W 7 system ?
3 - FYI - I agree with the DJ Paige recommendation to "In Windows, double-click on the *.pse8db file" as a means of starting the Organizer with the Catalog that you previously had under XP . This generally works on most versions of PSE although I did have an experience with PSE 8 where it did not work initially.
4 - FYI - If your photo files were stored under My Pictures under XP, then I think that the other suggestions about PSE not being able to find photosand needing to do a PSE Backup are relevant -
"You catalog will be holding the absolute location of the files in the catalog. These will no longer be valid when porting to Win7 from XP"
However, if your photo files are stored on that second hard drive, I am skeptical about that conclusion.
5 - FYI - I have seen a report of successfully moving a physical second internal drive from old XP PC to new Windows 7 PC with PSE 10. I think that you should be able to do the same with PSE 8.

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I have just gone through this but have also moved photos to a network drive. I also upgraded from PSE6 in the process. This is what worked for me:
1) Perform a full backup of the system.
2) Open PSE6 and verified all photos are linked in the catalog (the coversion to PSE8 will loose these links). Correct or remove the missing links as required.
3) Exit PSE6
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6) Use the instructions given above (in a previous post) with the folder view to move the photo folders. Drag and drop folders to the new location. If you have many folders, I would recommend moving a parent folder so you don't have to do each folder individually.
7) The PSE6 catalog will now be unusable as the images have been moved to a different location.
Moving this to a Samba server caused some complications but I eventually got it to work. Moving these to an internal drive should be a piece of cake. Please not of the following issues that I ran into:
a) Some photos were copied instead of moved from the original location. I verified everything was in place after moving the photos with the help of the folder view. I simply removed the original photos and had no issues. I'm not sure if this was because the photos were being moved to a network drive.
b) Some slideshows are missing photos if the slideshow is edited in PSE8. I think this is because the photos were removed from the PSE6 catalog at some point. You can look at the PSE8 project files now to identify the missing photos. The file name and path is listed in the project file if you desire to fix this up.
c) You can't drag and drop to a new location if the new location does not contain a cataloged photo. This is because you cannot navigate through directories with the organizer's folder view if there are no images in these directories. Simply copy some image to the location where you desire to move the photos to. Now use the organizer "Get Photos" to populate the catalog with this image. This will allow you to navigate to the new location such that you can drag and drop directories as required.
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a) Install the drive and assign a drive letter to it.
b) Move (or copy) the photos to the new drive using the same file hierarchy (i.e. C:\Documents and Settings\<user name>\My Documents\My Pictures\camera\photos\... --> X:\camera\photos\...
c) Mount the new drive to an empty NTFS folder such that the path remains the same as before (i.e. mount the drive to C:\Documents and Settings\<user name>\My Documents\My Pictures\ with the above example). You will need to make sure "My Pictures" is empty before the drive is mounted.
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