When restoring backup catalog conversion fails.

when restoring backup catalog conversion fails.

HI,
Could you please try the steps mentioned on the link http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop-elements/kb/troubleshoot-catalog-backup-conversion-elemen ts.html
-Harshit yadav

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PSE 7 catalog error when restoring backup from PSE 5

I am attempting to move from PSE5 on XP to PSE7 on Vista using the backup-restore method, . Catalog is about 75 MB, data set is 56 GB, all stored on external USB drive. Tried restoring in new folder using both with and without restoring folder arrangement.
On PSE 5, most images were online, scattered across E: partition and external USB disk. Restoring to PSE7, files are all restored to a new directory OK, but new catalog lists all files in E: as offline. Let me repeat... the images are moved into a new folder on the new system, but are shown in the organizer as still on a non-existent E: drive on the new computer.
I am left with thousands of untagged images, all of them ther newest and most important in my system.

Mahlon,
First, some additional questions:
1. Did you do File > Catalog > Recover and File > Catalog > Reconnect before doing the backup? Thats very important.
2. On the old computer, was E: a partition on an internal drive, an external USB drive, or a network drive?
3. In the restored PSE 7 catalog, are the suspect thumbnails shown with a yellow question icon in their corner or a red circle icon with a line through it (like the international power symbol)?
4. When you say files are still recorded in the catalog as being on the E: drive, is that as shown in Folder Location view in the left-hand folder heirarchy pane, in the center Folder Location pane, in the Properties pane, or all three? (Check all three, because sometimes PSE will show different drive letters.)
> This will take a dozen hours on the old system, and I'm skeptical that it will work. PSE7 already converts the PSE5 database in or out of the restore. But it can't correct the pathname on the old system to indicate that the files are local and not offline.
Recovering the PSE 5 catalog, reconnecting missing files, installing PSE 7, and converting the catalog to PSE 7 on the old computer should take about 30-45 minutes (doing a second backup will take much longer).
Converting the catalog on the old computer is different than converting it on the new computer. PSE 7 has a different catalog format than PSE 5 PSE 5 uses drive letters to identify hard drives, whereas PSE 7 relies on serial numbers, and the internal database format is completely different. When you restore to the new computer and try to convert the catalog at the same time, the conversion needs to both update the new paths of all the files
and convert from the old catalog format to the new one, changing drive letters to serial numbers. But when you convert to PSE 7 on the old computer, the locations of files and drives havent changed its just changing the database format. So its entirely possible that conversion will go correctly. Then when you backup the PSE 7 catalog and restore it on the new computer, backup/restore is just changing the paths of files, not converting from drive letters to serial numbers or changing database formats.
So thats why its quite possible (though not at all guaranteed) that converting to PSE 7 on the old computer and then doing backup/restore could produce different results different process, different results.
You have two other options, both of which might lose tags or other catalog information:
1. On your new computer in its current state, reconnect all the files in the catalog to their new locations. Because they are marked as offline (assuming they actually are offline, based on the answers to my questions above), the Reconnect command will tell there is nothing to reconnect. However, you can force PSE to reconnect offline files using a trick described in step 4 of this FAQ:
http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/photoshopelements-6-7-faq.htm#_Quickly_reconnecting_la rge
This may or may not work, because its likely that the buggy conversion process has left your catalog in an inconsistent, unknown state, and there may be other problems still lurking. Also, persuading PSE to quickly reconnect whole folder hierarchies of files takes some patience (as youll see in the FAQ).
2. You can merge the PSE 5 catalog into a fresh PSE 7 catalog using this procedure: In PSE 5, save the tag definitions to a file, use File > Write Keyword Tag to write the keyword tags to the photos, copy the tag-definitions file and all the photos to the new computer using Windows Explorer, import the tag definitions into a fresh PSE 7 catalog, import the copied photos, and finally have PSE 7 automatically stack photos that used to be in version sets into stacks. These steps are described in detail in this FAQ:
http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/photoshopelements-6-7-faq.htm#_Merging_Catalogs
This FAQ is written assuming the source catalog is in PSE 6 or 7, but I think it should also apply to a source catalog in PSE 5.
There are a number of problems with this. First, its time consuming. Second, youll lose version sets, stacks of photos that are *not* visually very similar or taken close together in time, collections (albums), and projects. The PSE File > Write Keyword Tag command has numerous bugs (in all versions), and youll most likely lose at least some, and perhaps much, of your tags, star ratings, captions, notes, dates/times, and GPS/map locations. If you have raw files in particular, youll very likely lose much or all of the metadata, but depending on the source of your JPGs and other file formats, those files could lose much information too. See the end of this FAQ for more details on the known bugs:
http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/#_Writing_File_Metadata

If you move files to external disk in PSE 7, are those files backed up when you Backup Catalog

My catalog is now about 50 GB and I want to decrease its size so that it takes less space on my hard disk and, more importantly, so my backups and restores don't take so long. These are files that will not be edited in the future so why keep backing them up? If I move files offline to an external disk using File, Copy/Move Files to Removable Disk will Elements backup those files as well as the files on my C Drive when I backup my catalog?
Alternatively,can I move files to a new catalog along with the assciated catalog data (such as albums, tags, etc.)?
Thanks for any help.

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If you use incremental backups, how often should you do a full backup?
No hard-and-fast rule. The more incrementals there are, the longer it could take to do a restore. I suggest starting out doing a full backup every 10 incrementals.
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I also backup my backups to a 2nd external drive. Can I use PSE to do that 2nd backup (including the incremental backups) or do I need to copy the backup folders created the first time to a 2nd external disk using Win Explorer?
I think using Windows Explorer to copy them to the 2nd external drive will be easier and faster.
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I assume when moving to the new computer I just plug in the external drive containing the backup from the old computer (including incremental backup folders) and go through a normal restore.
Right.
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When I do a full backup, does PSE include the picture files stored on an external drive?
Yes.
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When I restore that backup to a new computer, does PSE restore the files which were on an external drive on the old computer to an external drive on the new computer, or would I have to move them from the new computer to an external drive again?
I think that if you select the Original Location restore option, it will restore them to the external drive, but I haven't tried that. You could make a small test catalog with a few photos and try it.

WHEN RESTORING BACKUP OF ENTIRE LIBRARY, NOT ONE PLAYLIST HAS RESTORED!

my harddisk developed an unrepairable corruption, and i had to completely reformat and fresh install my operating system. I was able to backup my entire library onto 9 dvds (37 gig), but when restoring, the music rstored without problems, but horror of horrors not one playlist has appeared... this is terrible! Please help me anyone who can tell me how to rescue them. Is it necessary to restore the discs in a particular order? i.e. the last dvd first to be inserted for restore, or are the playlists somewhere on one of the dvds in a file? please please help.

I had this same problem. I just bought an aluminum iMac, and needed to transfer my music from my old Windows PC. I did the backup to DVD thing, and then followed the restore instructions to copy it onto the iMac. Everything got transferred perfectly, except for the playlists. Since I didn't want to redo them all, I got a little crafty and it worked!
1) Do the backup/restore, etc, according to the instructions here: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302392.
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2) Quit all the way out of iTunes.
3) Go into the music folder and rename the "iTunes Library" file to something else. (I picked iTunes Library-old). Make sure this is the "iTunes Library" one, NOT the "iTunes Music Library" one.
4) Find the "iTunes Library.itl" file on your backup CD/DVDs. Do not run the restore again. Click cancel if the dialog box pops up asking if you want to restore.
5) Copy that file into the folder from step 3.
6) Start up iTunes, and you should see all your playlists
7) You will likely have a lot of files with an "!" next to them, so you will have to have iTunes "find" each of them.
-phae
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HT1414 How to fix error -50 when restoring backup file?

I'm fail to restore the backup file after updating iOS 4.32 to 6
I already backup it to iCloud before updating software, after finish update and it fail to restore backup and it show error -50
Is there anyway that I can retrieve the old contact?

Read here.
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TS4585 Servor Error when restoring backup

I have tried to restore a backup after my phone died from an IOS update.
I have tried at least 6-10 times on various different wifii networks and i get the same error message.
The back up processes for a while and trick you into thinking that its going to work but then 2mins in it says cannot restore backup Server Error.

I have tried to restore a backup after my phone died from an IOS update.
I have tried at least 6-10 times on various different wifii networks and i get the same error message.
The back up processes for a while and trick you into thinking that its going to work but then 2mins in it says cannot restore backup Server Error.

PS Elements 5. Trouble restoring backup catalog - Organiser freezes

Old computer died and i re-installed PS Elements 5.0 on a Win8.1 machine. The first time instal indicated i was working on "My catalog". I ran a restore catalog function to restore my backup, original "John" catalog. The restore appeared to work ok i.e. the backup file *.tly was processed but my photos didn't show in Organiser. Have since uninstalled Elements 5.0 and reinstalled. On the new instal Organiser is looking for catalog "john" and just freezes. An explorer search cannot find "john" on the computer. How can I either reset my computer for a new clean instal so I end up with "my catalog" and can try a restore again OR how can i restore my "john" catalog without using Organiser. I have circa 6000 images which were/are catalogued. Any help appreciated as I don't want to have to tag/collection all of them again.

Hi,
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The pictures I have stored independently is the the 4500 number, while the pictures on the external hard drive in the Elements 6 catalog folder amounts to
about 7300. Why would that be
Some of the extra files should most probably be the breeze.xml files. These are created due to preprocessing of face data. I didn't quite get "duplicate pictures with different file numbers in the Elements backup" ?? . Do you mean they have numbers like -1 , -2 etc attached. If yes, then they exist mostly when you had ediited files present in Organizer. Since these are part of version sets in Organizer so theie count is not shown in Organizer but you see it in your backup.
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So does anybody out there have a way I can just restore the incremental catalog backup or use the files created to at least get my tags, categories etc back?
To restore the catlog, you will need to go to File>Restore catalog from ... , browse for the .tly file and hit restore.
Incremental backup comes into picture when you had taken the backup of catalog before. So next time, you make changes to catalog and wish to take a backup , you have the option for an incremental backup which backs up only the changes done in Organizer since the original backup was taken. Incremental backup builds on the original backup and hence its not allowed to overwrite the original.
Hope this helps. Thanks

Problem when restoring Backup from Tape...

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After updating my iPad 3 from iOS 7.0.6 to 7.1 I can't do anything. It constantly reboots while trying to restore backup. Epic Fail!

My attempts to update my ipad 3 to IOS 7.1 via iTunes on my Mac Pro has essentially bricked it. I carefully made a backup before doing the update but its of little use. The iPad installs the firmware update and reboots and asks about the backup to restore and begins the sync. But, it reboots about 20 times while trying to restore the beast.
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I've spent months setting it up. The thought of restoring as NEW is so depressing.
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Slone,
I finally decided to turn this annoyance into an opportunity. After a lot of experimenting I found that my iPad was just fine under 7.1 if I simply restored it as new. I have a lot of time on my hands and I had 1424 apps on my iPad! This is why every attempt to restore took so long.
I decided to restore as new, spend a day restoring the apps I really used. Doing so gave me a quick iPad with only bout a quarter of the storage used.
Granted it was a pain in the arse, but I wrote it off as in the old days when you had to do this with windows 95 just to keep a stable system.
I DO have some data in a few files of the now unused backup but a quick google search finds a couple Mac programs out there that will allow you go extract audio recordings, app data files etc. from the backup. I'll do that someday if I even miss the files I've probably forgotten that are there.
Anyway, there was nothing wrong with my hardware. I think there were just some troublesome setup items that 7.1 didn't like. Once set up as new, the ipad was fine.
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Ios7 installation stops when restoring backup

Hi
the installation of ios 7 goes well until the restoring the backup. when I restoring it stops a 50% (progressbar under apple on the phone see picture).
its been like this for hours,
I've undocked the phone and started over.
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http://krypted.com/iphone/managing-ios-devices-with-apple-configurator/
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nutdrum wrote:
This has really put me off switching to the Apple environment which I was considering doing. Think I'll go down the Google/Android/Samsung product route.
Thanks for letting us know.
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