Duplicate an Elements 14 album for another Elements 14 computer, without losing anything from the "donating" computer: both computers to have the complete workable album files.

starroute  wrote When I try to accomplish creating the album for the other computer (both Windows 10) on a flash drive, I lose hard disk files - all of the associated ones - or my relative doesn't get them.  I hope I'm making some sense... - Norm. (I don't know if my request is going anywhere or not.)

Norm,

It's ok to post here.

You don't say how you are trying to 'create' the album for the other computer.

Is it another computer with the same version of the organizer?

How to share the photo files stored on your computer:

- they are 'registered' in your catalog which is a database storing the link to the real location of the photo files on the disk together with a lot of information about those files. The files are NOT in the catalog, only LINKS.

- you have created an 'album', that is a kind of 'playlist' containing its own list of links to the records in the database. That list has no meaning except within your catalog.

That means that you can't do anything with the album definition in your current catalog, but you can select the files in your organizer.

- You open the organizer and select the album

- You select (highlight) all the thumbnails

- You use the shortcut 'Ctrl W' to write metadata to files. That means that the information (keywords, captions, ratings, notes etc.) which are kept in the catalog will be written in the photo files themselves and available to other softwares or other catalogs.

- You use the menu File >> Export as new files to create a copy of each selected file in a folder on your flash drive.

- You copy those files to the destination computer

- If you want to add those files into an organizer catalog on the other computer, you 'import' the files into its own catalog.