Albums lost after catalog restore - Photoshop Elements 18 on Windows OS

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Anyone else with this problem?
I restored a PSE 2018 catalog but lost all the albums. It's happend before too. Pretty standard setup
500GB SSD for OS and programs
All data user info on &#128551; moved there by sysprep during windows 10 Pro clean install.
Backed up Catalog - pulled an older disk image of &#128551; from a backup (this disk image was made while PSE catalog was working correctly) - Recovered catalog - Albums gone!
I foolishly thought that a backup would be . . . you know . . . a backup.
Am I doing something wrong?
 
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Sahil.Chawla · Accepted Answer

Hi there,Sorry to hear about the lost albums, please have a look at this conversation and let us know if it helps: https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-elements/how-to-recover-photoshop-elements-13-albums/td-p/9371199 Regards,Sahil

flyguy2 · Answer

Thanks Sahil.I think I see where I went astray.In my original problem with losing albums I think I tried restoring the catalog manually, not by doing a full catalog backup from within Organizer, thinking that all the data was directly within the photo files themselves or at least linked from within the photos themselves. I now realize that I was wrong in that assumption. I now realize that all the Photoshop Elements data is connected together by what appears to be a fairly simple relational datadase. Move parts of the DB and stuff falls apart.I get it now.Thank you. Your response made me think a bit more deeply about how the data is connected.

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