Greg_S. wrote You sound like you are tech savy, so I don't want to suggest the obvious, but in case you have not searched the entire drive Yeah, definitely tech savvy, tech geek 30+ years and casual IT support for friends/fam/work for most of that hah.. Yeah, Ive not only searched the drive, but drilled down to the location where PE says the file USED to be and none of the ones I sampled were in the place.. Just so its probably her deleting things to make space......... hah crap, as I typed that, I recall her saying she was running out of room recently and had gone on a deletion binge. Which converter did you use on the original catalog? It may still be possible to recover the tags if you start a new catalog and import the images into it. You will be given the opportunity to import available keyword tags during the the import process. I used the Adobe catalog conversion tool linked in this help article.. Though, on my re-read now, I didnt point it to the directory on their old drive mounted in my cradle, I copied the single .db file out of the directory on the old drive and ran the converter on it on her new machine.. so it may have also looked for a thumbnail cache (containing album info?) and not been able to grab that.. Probably not. What kind of "creations" are you talking about? Well, given that shes nearing 80, has had no major computer experience and has never accessed (and never will) the internet.. she does a bang-up job of creating curated photo albums / scrapbooks from her world travels.. With my complete lack of PE experience, I assumed that the books/calendars etc that she has created in PE3 were complete, unified, files.. I havent seen anything obvious like that in her rather organized directory structure.. so thought they may be in another database type structure.. or oddball legacy storage location.. You're preaching to the choir here. Right?? I first helped her out about 3 years ago on her XP machine when PE started having a fit due to hard drive corruption.. and as soon as the PE2019 interface popped up I started having friggin flashbacks haha.. 15 years difference, 3 major Windows changes and its still this awkward. Thanks again for all your help. Brett
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