Historical Place names (and dates) in Organiser?

Report · Sep 05, 2017

Maybe I've missed something simple here but I've had problems with organiser and historical locations that no longer exist. Our local history society has a big collection of old photos. Many are of places that now have new names but we wish to store them under their old names and often that is just a vague location, like 'somewhere' in German East Africa (now Tanzania). In PSE 9 that was no problem - you just defined your tags and it all worked wonderfully. When I bought PSE 11 it wanted to allocate existing, present day place names and wouldn't accept our old ones; at least I couldn't work out how. So I never migrated Organiser from PSE 9 though I used PSE 11 for editing.

Now neither of them work properly thanks to the latest Windows 10 upgrade I need a new solution. Would PSE 15 allow me to do what I want? If so, how

And BTW we have a similar problem with dates. Sometimes we can guess the year, sometimes we know the month, rarely the day and never the time. But we wish to determine the time sequence of our photos.

All suggestions gratefully received.

Report · Sep 06, 2017

alanw69486783 wrote
Maybe I've missed something simple here but I've had problems with organiser and historical locations that no longer exist. Our local history society has a big collection of old photos. Many are of places that now have new names but we wish to store them under their old names and often that is just a vague location, like 'somewhere' in German East Africa (now Tanzania). In PSE 9 that was no problem - you just defined your tags and it all worked wonderfully. When I bought PSE 11 it wanted to allocate existing, present day place names and wouldn't accept our old ones; at least I couldn't work out how. So I never migrated Organiser from PSE 9 though I used PSE 11 for editing.
Now neither of them work properly thanks to the latest Windows 10 upgrade I need a new solution. Would PSE 15 allow me to do what I want? If so, how

Elements 11 did introduce a new geotagging feature based on Google Maps. The result was that a new kind of keywords and and places tag hierarchy was used together with the old standard places category. The new hierarchy is the one from Google, you can't edit it.

The problem is that when you install PSE11 or newer versions, your catalog is converted and the conversion process automatically searches for your old 'Places' standard hierarchy and moves them in the new category.

- you can still create your own 'MyPlaces' standard category and your own hierarchy freely together with the new one (which allows placing on maps).

- If, like me, you don't care about maps, the trick is to fool the installation of PSE for the conversion: in your old PSE version, you rename the default 'Places' category to your own 'MyPlaces' or such category. Your tags and MyPlaces category won't be updated. You can convert le latest of your old catalogs again from the catalog manager after this renaming.

And BTW we have a similar problem with dates. Sometimes we can guess the year, sometimes we know the month, rarely the day and never the time. But we wish to determine the time sequence of our photos.

Please, start another discussion for this interesting question. It will be easier to follow each question in its own discussion.

Some reading in advance:

Photoshop Elements 6/7/8 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Report · Sep 12, 2017

Thanks for the suggestion. Now that PSE 9 is working again I've just moved all the tags from Places to Historic Places. I shall now try a migration to PSE 11.