Move Catalog AND Pictures to another Drive
I am a newbie to Photoshop Elements Organizer 2019 so sorry if this has been already answered. Also not sure of the lingo as to how Organizer works. Did read a lot on the site but not sure I understand it. I'm running the software on a Windows 10 machine.
Here is my situation. I have all my photos in various folders within "E:/Pictures" on my E: drive. I then used Organizer to Import the photos into a folder called "0PhotoElementsOrgCatalog" within E:/Pictures. What I thought would happen was it would create a relatively small catalog folder. However the size of the folder is about 90Gigs. I have about 13,000 photos. Within this folder I see files called "B0000000.cache, B0000001, B0000002, B0000003.xmp (tons of XMP files), tons of .json files, tons of .jpg files, my .mov files, my .m4v files). All my original photos & videos are still in the folders they should be.
Now that I know that Organizer created such a large folder, I want to move this folder to a different drive which has a lot more space. Let's say the H: drive. I first used the "Manage Catalogs" action to "Move" the Catalog to a "Custom Location" which I said the H: drive. It created a "MyCatalog" Folder but it is only about 1.2 Gigs. It clearly didn't move the imported pictures/movies files I shared above.
What I want to know is: What is the proper way to move this 90 Gig "0PhotoElementsOrgCatalog" folder from the E Drive to the H drive. I've already put in some amount of effort into doing the facial recognition and people tagging of photos. So I don't want to loose my work.
If someone could explain how to move this folder, this would be greatly appreciated. I hesitate calling this the "catalog folder" as I'm the one who named this large folder "0PhotoElementsOrgCatalog". Plus when I used the Move catalog instruction, it moved a folder called "My Catalog" (assume a default name) to the H: drive. I hope this is clear. It is confusing what these folders are...
