Organizer and OneDrive

pauls90132518  wrote I am using Elements Organizer 15. I have two PC that are running Windows 10. I have place all of my photos in OneDrive. This seems to work quite well, with regard to performance,  as there is a local copy of my cloud based OneDrive photos. By default Organizer places the catalog  in C:\ProgramData\Adobe\ElementsOrganizer\Catalogs. I would like to run Organizer on either of my computers so I tried moving the Catalog onto OneDrive. The problem is that the photo locations in Organizer includes the computer name. Hence when I go to my second PC all of the photos cannot be found. It would be nice if Organizer would look in the OneDrive for of the PC in use rather than attempt to find this folder on the other PC. So the question is: does anyone have a method that solves this issue?

First, the two key points to consider:

1 - you can keep your catolog where you want. The location of the catalog folder is not relevant for your purpose. You can move or copy the catalog folder anywhere, its contents are not changed, including the pointers to the folder location of each file.

2 - You have two different computers, that is two different drives. The catalog holds the identification of your drive in the catalog so that all location as wrong in the other computer.

What can one do to keep both the photo files library and catalogs in sync?

- The old classical way to backup and restore from an external drive is foolproof but takes al lot of time

- My usual trick is to edit the sqlite catalog file to update the drive identification. It's prudent to be acquainted with sql editing.

- I have not tried a possible solution to fool the catalog. That could be done by having your OS change the drive identification and make the internal serial number of both drives the same on both computers.

For more details about the way catalogs store the drive identification, see:

psedbtool (Photoshop Elements Database Tool)