Photoshop Elements :: 10 - No Photos Visible / How To Restore Catalog

Oct 19, 2012

Hard disk crashed, replaced, files restored, all photos visible in Explorer, no photos in PhShop 10; how do I get the catalog restored?

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Photoshop Elements :: Couldn't Restore File In Restore Catalog

Oct 8, 2012

I have a new computer and want to move the databse catalog over. I backed up in PSE 9 to an external hard drive. I connected to HD to the new computer and tried a resotre catalog. I chose "New Location" since I was going from XP to Windows 7 and was unsure if there would be a conflict with file locations. I also chose "Restore Original Floder Strucure". Very quickly I recieve an error message "Could not restor file .xml". I have run Restore Catalog several times and each time a DIFFERENT FILE receives the error message. I then disabled Norton Anti Virus Auto-Protect. I then disabled several programs running in the background. Same problem. I then copied the Backup Catalog to the new computer and tried to Restore it from there. Same Problem. I have now run a Repair Catalog on the original file. PSE states there is no error. I want to purchas PSE 11, but wanted to install/restore the database with the same version 9 first.

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Lightroom :: Restore Photos And Catalog Together On New Computer?

Nov 2, 2013

I recently had a computer crash and want to migrate my photos and changes from my old hard drive into my newly installed Lightroom software on the new computer.  I recovered the old drive, and accessed it from my new computer.  I found the most recent Lightroom catalog and imported it.  Then I imported all of my photos into Lightroom.  The problem is that the catalog and the photos don't seem to be talking to each other.  In the catalog, the photos are there all bunched together, no folders separating by date.  In the photo folders that ARE separated by date, the original photos are there as they were first imported (RAW files), but don't have the develop changes that I made to them.  How can I get these two things to link up?

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Photoshop Elements :: How To Restore Old Catalog To New PSE

Nov 23, 2013

I've used PSE 6 before, but it doesn't work anymore in Win8, so I'm thinking of updating to PSE12.
 
To be honest, I don't know where is my old catalog located, but I think it is in the same folder as photos. At least I see "my catalog.psa" files in there. But when I' try to restore them to trial version of PSE12, it only accepts *.tly files. My files are .psa.
 
How I can restore my catalogs? Because if I can't, there's no point to buy Adobe product at all, because I have to create everything (thousands of photos) from scratch. So I can do that with Adobe product or with any other software, even with free ones.

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Photoshop Elements :: Trying To Restore A Catalog In Organizer

Jul 22, 2013

I am trying to restore a catalog in pse organizer.  I get an error message saying that I should contact the disc drive manufacturer for the latest firmware before trying again.  There is nothing wrong with the disc drive - it works perfectly with every other application.  I open the disc drive in the control panel and can see the files I need are there.  I have tried copying the files to my hard drive, removed the cd, and tried to restore via the hard drive option and still get the same error message. 

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Photoshop Elements :: How To Backup And Restore The Catalog

Apr 8, 2013

I just got Elements 11 (Windows 8) this week end, and I have a few questions about the Catalogue in the Organizer.
 
I spent a few hours tagging people, organizing categories, and so on. After that, I did a backup of the catalogue, which from my understanding includes every pictures.
 
However, does a backup of the "Pictures" folder manually every month. My question is, are the people and tags I added in the Organizer embedded in the pictures, or do I really need to backup and restore the catalog to keep everything I have tagged? If I reinstall Elements 11 and add the pictures manually as I would the first time, will all the info still be there?

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Photoshop Elements :: People Tags And Restore Catalog

Feb 27, 2013

If I backup my catalog with people that are tagged, when I restore the catalog (fresh Install on new PC) will the tagged people be restored as well?

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Photoshop Elements :: Cannot Restore Catalog Because It Says File Is Empty

May 26, 2013

PSE 11 catalog but when I try to restore it it says it's empty.  I can open the folder/files on my hard drive but the restore function says it is empty.

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Photoshop Elements :: How To Restore A Catalog - File Can't Be Found

Nov 6, 2012

I need to restore a catalog. All of the info I have found eventually leads to the statement "Restore a catalog to a previously saved version".

Using the hyperlink in this paragraph is a dead end and yeilds a message "The file can't be found". I desperately need my .tly file restored. I do have Norton Ghost image backups but they don't do much good. I think the problem was generated when I removed PSE ver 11.

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Photoshop Elements :: Restore (Windows) Pse11 Catalog On Mac?

Apr 26, 2013

I am a Windows user moving to a Mac.  I did a backup of my (Windows) Photoshop Elements 11 catalog on an external drive in preparation for restoring  in on my MacBook pro. 
 
I've read a number of different posts on here regarding the restore process and gathered the following information:
 
1) Open up Elements 11 on the Mac and select File > Restore Catalog

2) Navigate to external drive and select the .tly file.  (choose as source of restore)
 
Backup folder contents on external drive (former Windows Catalog to be used on Mac)
 
1) My backup folder contains about 9,500 items. The majority of the files all beging with a "B" and are jpg files.  However, a small number also end with the following: .cache, .dat, and .xml.  Should these be in the backup file?
 
2) I also have  "Catalog.buc" and "Backup.tly" files within my backup folder on my external drive
 
Question(s)

1. Based on the information I've read online, it would appear that the only thing I want to be concerned with in the backup folder is the "Backup.tly" and the other files contained within my backup folder on my external drive aren't relevant to the restore.  Is that correct?
 
2.  Do I need to select anything else as part of the restore process after selecting the "Backup.tly" on my external drive?  For example, do I have to point to a folder on my Mac for the restore to occur or will this happen automatically since I will already have Photoshop Elements 11 open on my MacBook pro when I am performing the restore process?
 
3) Currently, I have hundreds of "folders" under "My Pictures" on my Windows machine that separate out each event (Xmas 2010, Xmas 2011, etc.). Up until now I haven't been using the tagging feature within Photoshop.  My initial intent was to copy the "My Pictures" folder from my C drive on my Windows machine to the "Pictures" folder on my Mac.  (not planning to import them into iPhoto).
 
Will PSE 11 on my Mac be able to "find" this new path for the photos that were moved from my Windows machine to the "Pictures" folder on my Mac?  Do I need to do something to make sure this happens during the restore process on my Mac?
 
As an example, the patch for a random photo in PSE 11 on my Windows machine looks like the following: 
 
C:Documents and SettingsTomMyDocumentsMyPicturesXmas 2010  (as an example for one of the pictures contained in my Windows catalog)

Clearly, this path won't exist on my MacBook Pro and I just want to make sure I know whether or not I have to do something to redirect the pictures in my (restored) catalog.

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Photoshop Elements :: Restore Catalog From Previous Version

Nov 11, 2013

I have a problem to restore a catalog from a previous version of photoshop. But I have a catalog only under a .buc extension instead of a .tly extension I should have.

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Photoshop Elements :: 10 / 12 - Catalog Backup And Restore Deleted Data

Mar 7, 2014

I purchased a new computer today and also purchased PSE 12 (I had PSE 10 running on a different machine/laptop).  On the laptop/PSE 10, I had about 20,000 digital on an external drive (all were tagged according to color, theme, etc via the PSE organizer).  All of the elements were stored on the external drive under a folder called "digital kits".  I used the PSE 10 backup utility to backup my catalog to ease the move to my new machine.  After I performed the backup, I renamed the "digital kits" folder to "digital kits-glw" because I intended to just move the external hard drive to the new computer and restore the catalog to the same path, “E:digital kits”, as I have other software that is dependent upon that path. 

The restore went pretty quickly, and I can see the correct folder structure within PSE 12 Organizer, but all I have is a bunch of blank thumbnails.  Upon closer inspection, the restore did NOT recreate the E:digital kits folder on the hard drive as I expected.  Worse, the E:digital kits-glw folder is virtually empty (just a handful of thumb.db files).  So, it appears the backup process deleted/hijacked all of my files.  (Note:  I did NOT verify the contents of the digital kits folder before I renamed it.)  Tech support is closed until Monday, and I’m just sick over the possibility of losing all that data, so I’m turning to you all.(I have a backup of the data, but without the catalog piece I would have to re-catalog all 20,000 elements!) 

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Photoshop Elements :: Restore Catalog In PE11 From PE10 Backup

Feb 14, 2013

Old computer was XP with PE10 installed.  Moving to new Win7 computer, so did catalog backup of PE10 onto a network drive.  On new computer, have serveral Drives: C, E, G (XP drive from old computer for moving stuff over to new system).  Installed PE11 on new computer to drive E.  Then opened PE11 and did a catalog restore from the network drive.  Set restore location to Drive E.  Restore said successful, conversion worked OK. Organizer in PE11 shows the pictures and references drive G (my old XP drive that is in my new system).  How do I get PE11 to change path to Drive E catalog??

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Photoshop Elements :: Restore Catalog To New PC After Unexpected Event (loss Or Damage To Old PC)

Sep 7, 2013

I know there is a recommended way to use PSE catalog backup to transfer a catalog to a new pc [URL] This is fine for when I have planned to move to a new pc.
 
But what about if the move to the new pc is unexpected (such as after a loss of the pc or the pc stops working)? In this case, I would have an up-to-date backup of the old pc (because this is done automatically on a schedule), but would not have an up-to-date backup of the built in PSE catalog backup (because it is not automated).
 
How do I use my regular drive backup to restore the PSE catalog to the new PC, whilst preserving my albums?

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Photoshop Elements :: Import Existing Catalog And Continue Sorting New Photos Into Old Catalog

Oct 25, 2013

We have 11000+ plus photos all carefully cataloged in Photoshop Album 1.0 on my old Windows XP PC. Our new PC is Windows 7 Home Premium with Photoshop Elements 9. How do I import our existing catalog and continue sorting our new photos into our old catalog?

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Photoshop Elements :: Images Not Visible In LR5 Catalog?

Jan 13, 2014

Why can't I see my images when I move them from my PSE 12 catalog to Lightroom 5's catalog?

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Photoshop Elements :: Keep Running Count Visible In Catalog?

Oct 28, 2013

How do I keep a running count visible in my catalog? I always had it in 10 but it seems to hide in 12.

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Photoshop Elements :: 10 Will Not Restore Catalogs From Ext Hard Dive After Full System Restore?

Aug 27, 2012

catalogs, I got error message about getting current drivers for hard drive. My hard drive is Western Digital which is supported by Windows 7.

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Photoshop Elements :: Add A Whole Subfolder Of Photos To Catalog?

Aug 25, 2012

How do I add a whole subfolder of photos to my Catalog?

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Photoshop Elements :: Move Photos From One Catalog To Another?

Jun 24, 2013

Is it possible to move Photos from one Catalog to another one?

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Photoshop Elements :: Reconnect Photos In The Catalog?

Mar 26, 2013

How does one reconnect the photos in the catalogue with an ? if one has online storage?  I have tried and they do not find the photos in storage.

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Photoshop Elements :: 10 - Move Photos From One Catalog To Another?

Feb 10, 2013

I am not able to find a way to have it done? Is there a way for having it done?

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Photoshop Elements :: All Photos Duplicated After Restoring Catalog

Jan 12, 2014

I recently had my computer reformatted and notice that following Photoshop Elements reinstall and catalog restore all my photos have been duplicated in the Adobe/digital photos folder. I have read that this is due to my computer tech restoring all photos in the original folder structure prior to me executing the catalog restore (I should have done my research first). My question is what can I do now to eliminate the duplicates? Do I delete all photos and the Adobe folders or is there an alternative?

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Photoshop Elements :: How To Remove Multiple Duplicate Photos In A Catalog

May 12, 2012

I have multiple duplicate photos in my Photoshop Element 10 catalog - I have run across the compare a photo tutorials but I have possiblely some 200+ photos that are duplicates. Any simpler way to remove duplicate photos?

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Photoshop Elements :: Smooth Transition Of Tagged Photos And Catalog

Dec 26, 2013

I am planning to move from a PC Windows 7-based system to a MAC.  As part of this move I will need to migrate Photoshop Elements from PE 8 in Windows to PE 12 on MAC.  Back in July, I previously asked what steps would be necessary to migrate to PE 11 on MAC, but I delayed making the move (waiting for the new MacBook Pro) and will now be migrating to PE 12. 
 
Do I still follow the same steps for a (hopefully!) smooth transition of my tagged photos and catalog?  i.e., migrate from PE 8 (Windows) to PE 12 (Windows).  Then from PE 12 (Windows) to PE 12 (MAC).  Are there any gotchas or caveats that I should be aware of?  I've read a few horror stories in various places and am nervous. 

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Photoshop Elements :: 11 - Quality Of Photos In Slideshow Inferior To Those In Catalog

Oct 2, 2013

I have been on the phone for a few hours to Adobe but they are stil investigating.  When I produce a slide show using Elements 11 the pictures are no way near as clear as they appear in the folders.  I just want to show my pictures without them looking like crap.  They were taken using the highest quality photo on the camera, which is a new Nikon and look great when viewing through Elements Organiser.  They also look amazing in the original source, eg My Pictures files.  When making slide show it asks the quality and I select high.

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Photoshop Elements :: Losing Place In Catalog After Deleting Photos

Sep 26, 2013

I am using PSE 12.  When I delete photos the program is moving automatically to the bottom or top of my catalog rather than staying in place.  So if I am deleting photos 1000 - 1005 it will reload at the bottom or top of my catalog.  This is a huge annoyance given I have 12K photos.  Other times it simply freezes and crashes.

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Photoshop Elements :: Where And How Catalog And Photos Backed Up On External Hard Drive

Apr 16, 2013

I'm using Elements 11 and just completed a full backup I selected the external hard drive and used the default name "my catalog".  When I look on the external drive I can't find the photos or the my catalog file.  Is it named differently? 

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Photoshop Elements :: 11 Organizer - Catalog Never Find Photos In Correct Spot

Feb 27, 2013

I tried creating a new catalog, but the same thing happens.  Is there a way to fix this, or is the program virtually worthless?

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Lightroom :: 5 - How To Restore Deleted Catalog

Jan 23, 2014

How to restore a deleted Lightroom 5 catalog?

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Lightroom :: How To Restore Only Part Of Existing Catalog

Jul 29, 2013

I am working with lightroom 3 on a Mac with OSX 10.7.5 and time-machine for backup.Some weeks ago a partner-user accidentally changed some keywords. As a consequence a lot of pictures are now no longer findable because its keywords are missing.
 
Several weeks and modifications to the catalog have passed since this accident. If I restore the whole catalog back to the date of accident, all the changing will also be neutralized.

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