Photoshop :: Backing Up Tags
Mar 14, 2008I recently had a computer crash and lost all my tags and albums in Photoshop.
Is there a way to backup/store the tags and ablums outside of the photoshop default folder?
I recently had a computer crash and lost all my tags and albums in Photoshop.
Is there a way to backup/store the tags and ablums outside of the photoshop default folder?
I'm using Organizer 11. First time evething was ok, persons/faces were detected correctly, then after a few month Organizer doesn't detected new faces and said every time that all faces were detected already also when I imported new fotos from my camera...
(I use the german version, so I can not tell you the exact error message in english, hope you unserstand what I mean.)
As I found no solution, I created a new catalog and imported all photos including their tags newly to this empty catalog. But allready tagged persons are not persons anymore - their tags are now in the "imported keyword tags" (German: "Importierte Stichwort-Tags") and not in the "person/face tags".
How can I tell the organizer that the imported Tags are persons/faces to having no douplicates in the person-tags and normal keyword-tags?
Here some Background Information about my system:
PSE 11, Windows 8, 64 Bit 8GB, Intel i7.
3 catalogs with each 8000-10000 photos.
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