Photoshop album 2 not open after many years use.

Hi all

thanks for replies and suggestions. Was not antivirus that affected it, so in end just risked reinstalling  Photoshop Album, and fortunately worked and kept all cataloging of all photos installed.

Happy New Year!

After many years use I’ve suddenly received message “photoshop album cannot run because of missing or invalid registration information. Please reinstall”. But if I Reinstall will the thousands of photos I’ve catalogued in Album still be catalogued, or will I lose them. I know will still have originals in photo files, but don’t want to have to start from scratch transferring them all into Album again!

 

By @Tim219629965ge1

Afaik, Photoshop album 2.0 waw released in 2003, so it's a miracle you were still able to run it until recently.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/photoshop-album-2-0/m-p/10399320

However, even if you can no longer use it and make a backup, your post suggests that your photo files (jpegs...) are still available on your computer and can be managed by more recent photo editors. You know that those files are not stored in Photoshop album, it's a catalog (a database) which keeps the links to the files and all your tagging and organization. That's all this organization allowing to search and manage your photo files which is not accessible today. The only way you could recover that organization would be to buy a recent version of the successor of album 2.0, which is Photoshop Elements. Even with this very old catalog format, my other post explains that it's still possible to 'convert' it to the current Elements organizer  catalog format. However, since we don't know which recent operating system change has disabled your album software, there is no guarantee that you can run a recent Elements version on your computer and use a converted catalog.

Dear user,

Sorry to hear that you are facing this issue. Kindly note that the Windows 7 & Windows 8.1 are not supported. Please ensure that your system meets the minimum required specification to run the Application. For more details you can visit https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop-elements/system-requirements.html.

Thanks,

Geetanjali 

After many years use I’ve suddenly received message “photoshop album cannot run because of missing or invalid registration information. Please reinstall”. But if I Reinstall will the thousands of photos I’ve catalogued in Album still be catalogued, or will I lose them. I know will still have originals in photo files, but don’t want to have to start from scratch transferring them all into Album again!

 

By @Tim219629965ge1

I can't help you to reinstall the 20 years old 'album' program, but it you still have the catalog (a file named catalog.psedb), there is still a possibility to 'convert' this antique catalog format to the current format of Photoshop Elements.

The main problem is that there has been drastic changeq in PSE6 and PSE13. Not too old Organizer versions can convert  older versions back to PSE6 (sqlite database and not Access) and 32-bit versions.

See:

https://helpx.adobe.com/elements-organizer/kb/convert-organizer-catalog-elements-13-64.html

In regedit go to Edit>Find, type in Photoshop Album and use F3 to advance to the next entry until you find something similar to my screenshot with the Name and Serial fields.

I installed Photoshop Album 2.0 on a windows 10 os so the regedit location could be different from windows 7.

If you press the Windows key + R to get the Run dialog then type regedit and go to

do you see your Name and Serial number listed?

What operating system are you using?