Photoshop Elements :: How To Organize Folders Hierarchically In P11
Oct 8, 2012
I have just upgraded from PSE 9 to PSE 11 and decided to redo my catalogue from scratch. My photos are already on the hard drive in the format of Main folder Photographs with the years underneath that. In each year I have put the twelve months with the number of the month before the name so that the stay in date order. (e.g. January is 01 Jan, Feb is 02 Feb). When I imported the photos into the catalogue I found that the list of folders on the left did not stay within the year and month so there was a long list of folders with no hierarchical structure.
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Jun 24, 2012
My sisters photo collection is a total mess without any rational system to it. Its just illogical structured with folders with generic keywords and thousands of files within each folder. For example, there it's a folder called "travel" where she has just dumped thousands of single files from 10 years of vacations. Not the mention the "various" and "misc" folders.
What I am trying to do: It does seem like all the photos have the correct EXIF data on them though. So what I'm looking to do is to restructure the collection in folders (with dates taken from EXIF) in a manner similar to this:
"/various/filename.jpg" ---> "/2012_06_25/filename.jpg"
"/friends/filename.jpg" ---> "/2012_05_01/filename.jpg"
and so on.
At least then it gets some kind of chronological structure to it. I want to physically organize the files, not organize them through a database.
What is the best approach for doing something like this? I guess I could just batch rename everything from the exif data with Bridge and then organize it from there - but this will still be very tedious. There must be a better way (any PS/Bridge scripts that can do this? The more automated the better. I use Bridge and I dont have LR - but if LR can do this it *might* be whats finally pushing me to buy it.
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Nov 16, 2011
I am trying to organize files and folders in lightroom and I am assuming it works the same way as bridge or better yet Apple Finder.
The file structure does not match from finder to lightroom. I am finding so many duplicated files.
All of my imports seem to go into a 2011 folder. I also tried to create a sub folder within 2011 and promote it to the master Lightroom Photos Folder but it does not work. I've been using a mac for over 20 years and this seems just wrong.
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May 29, 2013
I am organizing photo's of patients in a lightroom catalog. Each patient has a folder with his ID number. These are organised in the catalog according to the pathology. I can import photo's of the same patient after one year and I would like them to go easily in the same folder, with his ID number. Because the catalog with subfolders is large, it can be hard to find that folder. Is there an easy, 'automatic' way to find it, and to put the new photo's straight in this folder?
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Jun 2, 2013
I have loaded photos into Organize but I cannot transfer from Organize to Edit without the whole system freezing up. The cursor is a hand... I can't even get that to work....and then I can't close the page. I just purchased (a download) this upgrade from Elements 6. That wasn't so terribly user-friendly, but Elements 11 is a nightmare!
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Jun 29, 2013
I want to organize my digital paper in organizer but I always ended up with photos and paper all together.
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Feb 23, 2014
I have Photoshop elements 7 and on the organize screen I do not get menu items such as file, etc?
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Nov 12, 2013
Is there a way to have the organizer folders set up the same was as Windows Explorer? I have a main folder called Family with sub folders for all the years and in each of the subfolders there could be other subfolders. It wouldn't allow me to click on main folder and get all sub folders. I had to open main folder and then it shows all folders and sub folders separately. They are no longer nested.
Along the same lines, I wanted to create an album of Family with all subfolders, but that doesn't work.that is definitely a short coming which is why I never have used the organizer program, but just PSE for editing.
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Jan 27, 2014
When I open PE8 and click on organise on the organize/edit screen the program crashes.
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Oct 21, 2012
I lost all my pictures on the organize page of elements 7 (all but 15) {I must have hit someting I shouldn't have} and I need them back. how to do that?
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Mar 3, 2013
I'm aware that Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition 3.0 is not supported by Adobe anymore. I have thousands of photos organized on it using its "Category" function. Does Photoshop Elements 11 have a similar function? (I'm in the midst of also switching to a new computer and my old one can't load the info on the PS 11 program available on this site.) I'm extremely concerned I not lose the ability to retrieve my pix by the categories I've already assigned them, when I switch to PS 11 on my new computer.
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Aug 24, 2013
I always work via folders, click on it and see images as thumbnails to then work from, but it decided today not to play anymore. I cannot view folders at all. which settings should I check to reactivate this function?
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Jan 17, 2014
I just purchased PS Elements 12 to replace old PS Album 2.0. When I installed Elements, I assumed that it would transfer all old PS folders and tags, but it didn't. How do I move all these old folders over to new soflware?
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Mar 25, 2013
I've had Elements 11 for some time and can't use it as I can't seem to find a way to import an existing folder structure of images. It imports it flat, with every subfolder and parent folder listed on the same level, so my organisation is shot to hell. I'm sure it's me being dumb, (but in fact it's Elements being incredibly un-intuitive) but how to import an existing folder structure with many images, retaining the structure after import? Actually thinking about it, I can barely remember how to import at all, I found it quite difficult to achieve and I think I might have drag and dropped some files?
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Nov 11, 2013
I opened a file within Elements (originally created in Photoshop) that has folders within the layers but unable to expand folder or edit the layers within Elements? How do I work with the folder within Elements?
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Apr 6, 2013
I tired importing photos from one folder and about 300-400 of them weren't imported (out of about 1,000). I deleted them and tried again. Same thing. On the third try it imported all of them.My thought was maybe it's going to take more time importing images from my folders than learning to use the program. I can't learn the program if it keeps dropping images. I tried another directory of about 3,000 images but it only accepted about 300 of them. No matter how many times I tried, it would only import 300 out of the whole batch. These are good jpg files that all my other programs have no trouble with.
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Dec 17, 2012
I have element 11 on two computers and want to move a folder with data from one to the other
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Nov 3, 2012
Also the correct file name does not appear on the top line when I display photos. It's like something just came in and mixed it all up. It seems to have only happened to recent photos and the older ones I think are ok. I am using PSE 9. I recently had to switch external hard drives and reconnect my catalog to the new hard drive. But that seemed to be OK except for losing most of the tags on my photos. When I tried to import missing files (because they are still on the harddrive) I get the message that the files already exist. However they are not showing in the files they are supposed to be in. I don't know what to do, I have a very large catalog which includes lots of digital scrapbook downloaded files.
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Nov 13, 2012
Somehow my Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 has been corrupted. The photos I added are scattered throughout several folders. And when I open a file, the wrong folder name appears at the top of the display. It seems to have pushed files down through the folder tree, moving previous files into folders that are about 5 folders down. I was going to reinstall, but I received a warning upon "uninstallation" that I need to deactivate my access number, but I don't know how to do that.
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Feb 12, 2014
How categories and folders interact?
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Feb 5, 2014
Is there any way to rename folders which appear in the elements organizer? When a do a right/click or Control/click while pointing to a folder, I see a "rename" option but it is grayed out.
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Feb 11, 2014
Do you have to do this manually when you add new photos? On Picasa there were watch folders and every time you added a photo to it, it would synch with the organizer... I wasn't thinking this was a downgrade when I purchased it.
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Jun 12, 2013
How do I import 3500 photos in 12 folders to stay in their 12 folders when imported so I don't have to do that work all over again? I am not familiar with PSE at all so haven't imported my photos (with thumb drive) not knowing what will happen when I do!
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Sep 3, 2012
I have my 14,000 items arranged into multiple folders on an external drive. I would like to move the entire set of folders onto my hard drive. When I tried to move the files, the individual files, not the folders, were moved to one folder on the hard drive. Is there a way to move the entire set of folders?
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May 24, 2013
Using the "Folder Location" view in PSE 10, I have successfully moved all but one of my photo folders from a problematic user account into a new user account on my PC. One stubborn folder will not be moved, with PSE 10 incorrectly citing that "No files from this folder have imported into Elements Organizer."
I restarted PSE 10 multiple times, repeated the process, and even followed the instructions to "Right click on the folder and select 'Import to Organizer.'" The latter action, of course, imported nothing because the 3,000+ files in that file already exist in the Organizer.
As an experiment, I successfully used Windows Explorer to move the folder (don't worry, I undid the move before PSE 10 had a chance to disconnect the files from the Organizer) to the new user account. No problems with that temporary move, but I'm not interested in waiting for PSE 10 try to reconnect all 3,000+ files if I made that my permanent solution.
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Feb 20, 2014
I am trying to sort through dozen of folders and organize them into albums. I would like to print out a list of those folders so that the task would be more manageable.
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Dec 9, 2012
pictures are in Adobe but not in the file folder under date. How do I connect the pictures to their folder?
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May 5, 2013
After backing up my Photoshop Elements 8 catalog, my folders no longer display. How can I re-display them?
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Dec 5, 2012
I have labeled folders in iPhoto. How do I import those folders into the Organizer of Elements 11?
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Dec 21, 2012
I have a few folders that show no evidence of photos. When I Add Unmanaged Files it says that they are already catalogged or the file format is not recognized. When I open these files in the Editor and save the dited version, they show up in the Organizer, but I cannot get any of the others in this folder to show up. It seems to be working in the other folders with pictures. These are jpg files BTW
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Feb 4, 2014
I just downloaded Elements 12 and when i imported photos from Iphoto, I created multiple folders for the same event. I simply want to merge multiple folders into one folder. Can I do that even tho I am in a Trial version?
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