Recreating an old catolog as to fixing upgrade problem?

Report · Jul 19, 2017

Several years back I upgraded my Photoshop Elements version. Something went radically wrong. The old catalog had every picture in it with tags for people,places & events as well as a a description under it. The pictures were files in a Photo folder that had sub folders so I had it in a tree like structure.

When I upgraded to version 11 all of my tags for people were found but none for places or events.

Since then the only time that has happened with my broken catalog was that I added newer photos.

I have now come across an old DVD back up from a few years back that I had forgotten about. This disk would predate that upgrade.

What would be the best way to use this old catalog as the bases of a new catalog which would incorporate all of my pictures?

I currently have version 11 & I'm running Windows 10

Report · Jul 20, 2017

If you have the catalog backup on your DVD, you need to restore that catalog in latest version of PSE you are using.

Also after restoration is done, the catalog will convert into PSE11 version catalog.

For more details around restoring and converting catalogs, please see:

Backup or restore catalogs in Elements Organizer

Move Elements Organizer catalog | Elements 6 or later

Thanks,

Anwesha