What extention does PSE 2018 Organizer catalogs use?

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December 11, 2021
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MichelBParis

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By @imaquila

An Elements catalog is not a file, it's a folder with the catalog name as the folder name.

You get the location of that folder from the menu Help >> System Information of the Organizer.

What do you want to do with your catalog?

https://helpx.adobe.com/elements-organizer/using/creating-editing-catalogs.html

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imaquilaAuthor

Inspiring

Thanks so much for taking the time to post. The PC that it was on has died and I wanted to find it on the backup drive so that I can move it to the newer PC. Right now PSE is unable to find a catalog which is no surprise. Can you give me a clue as to what directory the catalog folder would have been in? I had about 5,000 imagaes tagged in that catalog. If I can't locate it, I have no hope of retagging all those photos a second time. 😞

Thanks again for your reply.

MichelBParis

Legend

Thanks so much for taking the time to post. The PC that it was on has died and I wanted to find it on the backup drive so that I can move it to the newer PC. Right now PSE is unable to find a catalog which is no surprise. Can you give me a clue as to what directory the catalog folder would have been in? I had about 5,000 imagaes tagged in that catalog. If I can't locate it, I have no hope of retagging all those photos a second time. 😞

Thanks again for your reply.

By @imaquila

You can locate catalog folders by using a Windows Explorer search.
Each catalog contains a main database named 'catalog.pseXXdb', XX being the version number, for instance catalog.pse10db for PSE10, or catalog.pse20db for the current PSE2022 (version 20).

Have a look at the size and date of the folders to check if you find a correct catalog.

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