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[waynep38276088]

I recently converted Adobe Photoshop Elements 11 from my windows 7 to Windows 10 computer successfully. Before doing so I backed up my Catalog and transferred it successfully to my new computer. When I opened Photoshop on my new computer (organizer) I had my photos, dates, information but Not my TAGS……how do I bring over my tags to my new computer did I miss something here?

[MichelBParis]

The tags are stored in the catalog, not in the file themselves (unless you did 'write metadata to files' before copying your photo library).

The correct way to transfer both your photo library (the image folder tree) and your catalog is:

Move Elements Organizer catalog | Elements 6 or later

[waynep38276088]

Thank you for your response however I did do that but like I said it appears that I have everything except my tags......is there perhaps a setting within Photoshop that I'm missing ....I'm not a techee just a simple user that has over 5,000 photo's that I'v accumulated over 10 years now I have no tags.....and it appears no one can help me.

[MichelBParis]

If you followed the backup and restore procedure, you should have recovered both your image folders and your catalog. This makes me wonder if you are looking at the restored catalog or at the default (empty) one created when you installed Elements 11 on your new computer.

The catalog you are looking at should have the same number of items (bottom line on the left) and the same name.

If you look at the menu 'Help >> System Information', what does it say in the section 'current catalog'?

If you have several catalogs, each one is a separate folder containing a file named 'catalog.pse11db'.

Maybe one of those is the restored catalog; if so it should be bigger than the empty one.

You can do a search in your Explorer/Finder to find all 'catalog.pse11db' files.