Move Photoshop Elements to different drive

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February 24, 2021
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I have PSE 2020 running on my Dell desktop. It is installed and running on 'C' Drive which is an SSD but that is getting full so I want to move PSE onto my 'D' drive (on the same computer) which is a HDD and has much more storage space. How do I do this?

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MichelBParis

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What is the size of your SSD?

You have to consider separately:

- where to store the program itself

- where to store your media files

- where to store the catalogs

- where to choose to set your scratch disks

That's only for Elements. There are a number of other things you can set Windows to store on other drives, like OneDrive or Dropbox folders.

The most obvious choices are the location of the program (keep on C for simplicity, does not take a big size) and the media fies (never in the SSD, much too big and no advantage at all in speed).

You can store your media files and your catalogs on other internal or even external drives. That's by far the first thing to do.

If you still get enough free space after that, set your preferences to allow the first scratch disk on C for better speed.

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop-elements/kb/backup-restore-move-catalog-photoshop.html

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Stephen5CF3Author

Participant

Thank you Michael for your reply.

My SSD 'C' is 250 GB and my HDD 'D' is 1T.
I'm sorry but I don't know what scratch discs are and don't really
understand when you mention media files/catalogues.

Sorry to be so dim

Thank you, Stephen

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Stephen5CF3Author

Participant

To begin with, no worry: the size of your SSD is ok if used normaly.

Let's start with media files: they are your photo and video files. You can see them with your Windows Explorer. By default, you find them in the 'Pictures' Windows folder on disk 'C'. Those photo/video files take the most disk space, and you are going to add more and more photos... Moving them outside of disk 'C' to your other 'D' drive is the solution, not moving the Elements program itself, which does not take much space.

About catalogs:

https://helpx.adobe.com/elements-organizer/user-guide.html/elements-organizer/using/welcome.ug.html

Since you ask this question, take the time to use the introduction videos and help files to understand how using the organizer (based on catalogs) can help you; especially to move your photo files from C to D.

Before going into step by step description of how to move the files, you have to understand the basics of the organizer and of catalogs. Don't hesitate to ask for more explantions.

Don't worry for the scratch disk, they are parts of your disk space reserved to add more RAM memory and speed up editing. If you are curious, in the editor menu, go to the menu Edit >> preferences, performance and you'll see where the first scratch disk is set: probably on 'C'.

Thanks for your reply. I have a response to my original email from Adobe.
It simply says, *Uninstall and reinstall PSE 2020 on D. *Is this what you
were thinking?

Stephen

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