Trying to avoid duplicatibg copying after laptop move.

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HiWe recently moved computers and as part of that moved over all our photos, unfortunately we did this in Windows rather than Adobe.This did mean we could put them in a better folder e.g. C:/Photos (they are then sorted in a folder for each year) as over several years of moves in Adobe the catalog had ended up in C:/photos/Users/<username>/Pictures/Photos.If I want to put Elements on the new machine and recreate my Catalog with alll my Tags etc, then I think I will have to do the Catalog backup and restore in Elements, effectively duplicating the copy we already did. However I wanted to ask first in case there is any other option to point to the newly copied files. Could I just copy the catalog folder over or would I still lose my tags?I still have the old machine with everything on it.Thanks

Greg_S. · Answer

Simply copying the catalog folder over to the new machine will require you to reconnect all the files which will be missing. That will be very time consuming.

It may be possible to restore your catalog without duplicating images on your new machine, but it is unlikely that you would be able to choose the right options to do that, particularly since your naming scheme has changed.

My suggestion would be to start over and simply restore the backup to the new computer. And assuming you have enough space on your new computer, I see no reason to delete the current photos. IMO, you can never have enough copies of your precious photos.

See this article for help with restoring the backup to your new computer.

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