By following this process I achieved the desired result. Some observations/comments follow after the process. 1. Create New Catalog 2. For each of my CDs/DVDs of archived media: 2.1 Using PSE, import media from DVD drive to new Catalog 2.2 Using PSE, Copy/Move to removable drive to MOVE the imported media to removable drive 3. After importing last CD/DVD, Back up new Catalog to different removable drive Some observations: 1. In the above process, PSE imports the media to a folder: Pictures/Adobe/Photos from removable media. It does NOT delete these files after the MOVE action above. Watch out - your C drive may fill faster than you expected! 2. The MOVED files from your Catalog do not have the "offline media Icon" displayed against the thumbnail. (I previously incorrectly referred to this as the disk symbol). I think this is a WIN 7 issue rather than PSE. WIN 7 refers to my 2Tb removable drive as Hard Disk drive rather than Devices with Removable Storage. So I guess PSE follows suit. Annoying though. 3. I had previously used Windows Explorer to copy the DVD to C: drive then used PSE to import media to new Catalog. That gave the spurious incorrect results described in my original post. My guess is that even though I copied the media from DVD to C: drive before importing to PSE, PSE still somehow retains the DVD pointers & location details. From my perspective this issue is now resolved/closed!
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