Elements Organiser 2019 - problems with file location - help would be appreciated

Report · Dec 01, 2018

I am using Photoshop Elements 2019 and like the Slideshow facility that it has. The only problem is that I keep having missing files and can't reconnect. I can see that the trouble is that they are being sent to my Mac Time Machine backup

I can't see how this is happening as I have my preferences set as:

The following is just a sample of the reconnect screen.

Can anyone please tell me what I am doing wrong?

Many thanks

Paul

Report · Dec 01, 2018

I know nothing about MACs so I can only give you some general suggestions.

Is this a new catalog that you have created? How did you import the files into the catalog? Did you try to import from a backup? If so, how?

Before creating a slideshow, you need to repair the catalog itself so that you have no missing files. In the Find menu, click All Missing Files. This will present you with thumbnails of all the disconnected files in your catalog. How many are there? Is it all of your catalog or just a few files?

Depending on your answers to these questions, we can make some suggestions to fix the problem.

Report · Dec 01, 2018

I am not a Mac user, but I do remember the PSE expert Barbara Brundage stating that you should not use the Time machine with the organizer.

Report · Apr 03, 2020

I am getting a yellow ? in the photo and ii can do nothing more with the photo how do i get those photos back to normal to edit or to send

Report · Apr 03, 2020

I go to elements 2019 organizer and open look to down load from camera and have camera connected and switched on typein the date and name find media and click on that media and they usualy down load automatic to Organizer

To edit go to ELements editor find the file name click on it and all the photos are there for Edit and they will be in the Editor and make them to a J file and have a copy of the original also

Report · Dec 05, 2018

Sadly seems Organiser will not work with Mac Time Machine. Have to look for an alternative. Many thanks for the help though - it was really appreciated.

Regards

Paul

Report · Mar 02, 2019

Could you expand on 'sadly seems Organiser will not work with Time Machine'?

I have just started using a Mac & have installed PSE 2019 (previously had used PSE on Windows machine).

Am using PSE OK; am using Time Machine OK (or thought I was until I read your thread!).

Thank you

Report · Mar 03, 2019

pchisham wrote
Could you expand on 'sadly seems Organiser will not work with Time Machine'?
I have just started using a Mac & have installed PSE 2019 (previously had used PSE on Windows machine).
Am using PSE OK; am using Time Machine OK (or thought I was until I read your thread!).
Thank you

See:

Elements Organizer 14 and 2019 on Mac OS Keep Switching to Time Machine

I am not a Mac user myself.

Report · Apr 03, 2020

CAN I CHANGE FROM TIME MACHINE TO PSE ON A MAC or will that cause other problems on my MAC

Report · Apr 03, 2020

Hi peter here I am afraid to use this RECONNECT as i do think i will have more of my photos with the big ? over them

and cannot do anything to remove it

Report · Apr 03, 2020

for the last few times i have downloaded from my camera on to adobe elements 2019 organizer properly dated and titled did NOT OPEN IN THE 2019 ORGANIZER and i had to look all over the place for the file and is still not recorded in the ORGANIZER