Using PSE 6 and 7 with DPI's larger than 96

Question

Many people have discovered that if they increase the DPI (dots per inch) of their high-resolution Windows monitor to make text more readable, the PSE 6 and 7 Organizer will no longer show the menu bars.
I just discovered a workaround: In the Organizer, set the option Edit > Preferences > General > Use System Font. This works on my Vista system for both 6 and 7, but I havent tested it on XP or other computers.
The results arent always the prettiest, e.g. the font in the Editors menu bar stays small, but the font in the dropdown menus gets large, and much of the PSE text stays small. But this workaround at least lets you keep the DPI large so that you can read the text in all your other applications.

Answer 1

<i>Part II of II</i><br /><br /><b>4. Reconnect folders residing on a network drive.</b> If youve moved folders that originally resided on one network drive to another network drive, the Organizer will treat them as offline rather than missing, and it will show a red circle with a vertical line in the corner of the thumbnails.   An offline file is one that might show up later on, such as when you reconnect your laptop to the network containing your file server or you insert a DVD containing your archived photos.<br /><br />Since the moved files are offline, the PSE 6 Reconnect All Missing command wont do anything but tell you there are no files to reconnect.  You can force PSE to reconnect many offline files at once:<br /><br />a. Select all the photos that are offline.<br /><br />b. Do File > Write Keyword Tag and Properties Info.<br /><br />c. In the Find Offline Volumes window that pops up, select Reconnect and click OK.<br /><br />Unfortunately, method 3 doesnt appear to work with offline files on a network drive.  If you have a large number of individual folders and dont have the patience to reconnect each folder in turn, you can either use method 1 (restore the files to their original location) or recreate the original UNC name for the network drive (e.g. \\mycomputer\share).  (You could also try editing the catalog file using the tool sqlite3  search these forums for how to do it.  But thats sketchy at best.) <br /><br />------------------------------------<br />If you reconnect a file and get the message <old file> was not connected to <new file> or The file already exists in the catalog, then youve stumbled over a PSE bug for which there are workarounds.   See this thread:<br /><br /><a href="/webx?14@@.59b66777/5">John Rolfe Ellis, "Cannot Reconnect; File already exists" #6, 17 Sep 2008 2:49 pm</a><br /><br />------------------------------------<br />I havent tested any this in PSE 5, so I cant say how much works the same way.