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Nick_Baelz
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February 28, 2020
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Elements 20 Catalogue help please

  • February 28, 2020
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I have been running Elements 14 on my Windows 7 laptop. The Catalogue is contained on an external hard drive rather than the computer and I back it up onto a second hard drive.

I have just loaded Elements 20 onto my newWindow 10 laptop and wish to access the catalogue.

Can I just access the catalogue from the first external hard drive or must I do a restore from the second hard drive.

I tried opening Catalogue manager and selected Custom Lication and pointed it to the folder on my external drive that contains the catalogue but the open button remains greyed out.

I don't want the photo files on my new c drive .

can anyone help and tell me what I need to do?
Thanks

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Correct answer MichelBParis

If your catalog folder is on the external drive, you have to start by converting it to the PSE2020 format from the PSE2020 catalog manager (convert button). From the converted catalog, double click on the catalog.pse18db file. That will open the organizer with the new converted catalog.

I forgot to mention that the external drive should have the same drive letter as before.

 

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Greg_S.
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Greg_S.Community Expert
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October 27, 2022

@josephunit2n, you have received excellent advice from Michel.  To give you some other possible suggestions moving forward, it would also be helpful to know why you have 8 different catalogs.  Is there any overlap between them?  And do you have a specific reason for separating them? 

    josephunit2n
    josephunit2n
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    October 31, 2022

    I believe you and I have discussed this, previously!  In the past, some "expert" (Scott Kelby? someone similar?) advised to limit catalog size to around 5,000 images, to help avoid data corruption.  I know you said this is not necessary.  I feel at least this is harmless, and at best, might be beneficial.  At least once, I created new catalogs for some other reason (can't recall, clearly), perhaps new cameras adding photo files with new number sequences that seemed to duplicate the numbering of older photo files.  To further explain the number of catalogs, I will now also state:  in all this, there are 2 photographers/cameras, my wife and myself.  She does not operate Elements, only I do.

    MichelBParis
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    Legend
    February 28, 2020

    If your catalog folder is on the external drive, you have to start by converting it to the PSE2020 format from the PSE2020 catalog manager (convert button). From the converted catalog, double click on the catalog.pse18db file. That will open the organizer with the new converted catalog.

    I forgot to mention that the external drive should have the same drive letter as before.

     

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    Nick_BaelzAuthor
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    February 29, 2020

    Hi

    Many thanks it's worked 

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    Anonymous
    February 28, 2020

    Moving to the Photoshop Elements forum from Community Help

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