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HBarrison
HBarrison
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March 3, 2018
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External Seagate Expansion Disk

  • March 3, 2018
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My external hard disk of 3TB, used only for photographs and shows all 203 folders.  All, when clicked, show as being empty.  Yet, in the disk manager the properties indicate the full size of the data being used is 1.79 TB.  Even more strange, PSE works perfectly on the <c> drive and shows a path to each of my 30,000 pictures directly to the external drive designated as <e> and there are no kissing pictures after querying Reconnect All.  I have checked that there is no hidden files and all on the drive are available.

Background - this drive and setup has been used for years on a Dell XPS 27 and lastly ran on Windows 10 (64 bits). Motherboard recently died and I replaced it with a new Dell XPS 27, also running on Windows 10.  I used a PSE Recovery File to get the catalog up and running and was successful.  Then I wanted to copy a specific photo from my Drive E and it was empty, but, PSE is still working.  What am I doing wrong????   Disk Manager indicates that I still have 34% free space on the drive, that it is healthy and that it is a Primary Partition.  How can the computer indicate data as taking up space but at the same time is hiding it from actual use.  Does PSE need to be tweaked or is it a Windows issue????  I also edited a photo and it was a success so PSE could not be working on a ghost!

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Correct answer cz35895897

I had a similar situation. In my case the external drive contained duplicates of files I already had on C:. You can test for this by trying to import one of the directories on the external drive. If it is a duplicate, you will get a a note to that effect. The external directory will show as empty in PSE, but explorer will show the files. You can also edit or add a file to the external drive with another software, and try the import again. ONLY that one file will import. There are ways of doing two catalogs, but as some experts on this forum point out, that is wrought with other perils. Bottom line IMHO I think its doing what it is supposed to be doing.

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Inspiring
March 3, 2018

I had a similar situation. In my case the external drive contained duplicates of files I already had on C:. You can test for this by trying to import one of the directories on the external drive. If it is a duplicate, you will get a a note to that effect. The external directory will show as empty in PSE, but explorer will show the files. You can also edit or add a file to the external drive with another software, and try the import again. ONLY that one file will import. There are ways of doing two catalogs, but as some experts on this forum point out, that is wrought with other perils. Bottom line IMHO I think its doing what it is supposed to be doing.

HBarrison
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March 3, 2018

The new computer was entirely rebuilt because of a corrupted OS.  It ids only 2 weeks old too.  After I wrote the query I kept looking at my file structure and PSE.  What I noticed in my E Drive was another folder called My Catalog..  I then looked at PSE once more and noticed that it was missing my most recent photo folders.  With much anxiety I opened up the folder and clicked on the "catalog" that happened to have a date after I picked up the rebuilt computer and after I conducted a Restore procedure and up came a new catalog with a few more photos and the missing folders, from my recent trip to Antarctica - so I was aware that it was a different catalog. There is nothing on C Drive that contains any photos and the E Drive still has the the 1.8TB but the 203 folders have no photos showing.  PSE also continues to concur with No Missing Files and I also did a test Edit and it took and that photo had to go somewhere.   Do I need to move the E Drive Catalog Data base to the same External Drive that contains the PSE Backup and do another Restore???

H Barrison
HBarrison
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March 3, 2018

Below is the file structure of PS16 PSE Organizer found in C Drive - something went wrong with the Restore and I have no idea how to fix it.  The dates coincide with my most recent Restore operation when I brought the computer home.

H Barrison
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