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

Legend

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

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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

MichelBParis

Legend

Hi Michael,

So as I understand your advice, I think you are saying that I should leave
the PSE software on 'C' but store the photos on 'D', which makes sense.

I looked to see how to get PSE to save photos to 'D' rather then 'C', so
will the following work?

open Organiser
select Edit
select Preferences
select Folders For Saved Files
Change current location from 'C' to 'D'

If this is correct I presume all new photos will be saved to 'D'. Can I
then move all the previously saved photos over from 'C' to 'D' (not sure
how to do this - drag and drop/copy and paste?)

Does this make sense or am I talking rubbish?

Many thanks for your help

Stephen

You are totally right.

- for your description of changing the default location of saved files. I would not specify only the 'D' drive, I would create my own master folder, like D:\my photos.

- you can move existing files from C to D by dragging a folder with its subfolders from one drive to another

- you can use the backup and restore process to move your catalog together with your photo files to the other drive (as a matter of fact, this makes copies, you have to delete the originals after you have tested everything works as expected.

- you can even set the preferences of your downloader to automatically create a date based hierarchy of subfolders named on this template: yyyy mm dd.

My suggestion is to start a new post to get detailed help and docs for each of the above topics.

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