Hello. I have been running Photoshop Elements 8 on a desktop (Windows Vista) and have just upgraded to a new desktop (Windows 10). I've installed PSE8 on my new desktop but how do I transfer all the tags etc from my images to the new desktop? I don't want to have to re-create. And if I upgrade to latest version of PSE will this retain all my tags? Many thanks for any advice.
sarahraz wrote
Hello. I have been running Photoshop Elements 8 on a desktop (Windows Vista) and have just upgraded to a new desktop (Windows 10). I've installed PSE8 on my new desktop but how do I transfer all the tags etc from my images to the new desktop? I don't want to have to re-create. And if I upgrade to latest version of PSE will this retain all my tags? Many thanks for any advice.
This is a very common situation for which the organizer provides the adequate tools:
Move Elements Organizer catalog | Elements 6 or later
In a few words:
- you create a full backup on an external drive (that saves both the catalog and the media files) from the catalog manager
- you restore from the catalog manager to the new (custom) location on the new computer or new drive.
If you restore from a more recent version, after the restore of the media files, you are prompted to 'convert' the catalog to the new format. That creates a catalog copy; the original catalog is unchanged but is renamed with a -1 suffix.
The above process restores everything, tags, captions, ratings, notes, albums, stacks and version sets.
You can choose to install PSE8, PSE15 or both in the new computer. I would recommend upgrading because PSE8 is a really old version which risks problems when installed on a new OS version.
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