Transfer photo's/catalog from Crashed Computer

jimb16380276  wrote Will opening catalog manager and selecting old catalog (F:\ProgramData\Adobe\Elements Organizer\Catalogs) and specifying move to catalogs accessible by all users work?  Almost seems like this won't actually copy the files to new hard drive.

Your old computer is dead but I understand its drive is ok and you can access it. (You may have inserted the drive as a second internal drive, or you have used an USB enclosure to use it as an external drive).

So, your catalog is accessible, as well as the image fol der tree. The links in the catalog still point to the files in the old disk... with a small difference. The paths are ok, but the old drive has another letter drive.

However, the catalog identifies the drive not only by the letter drive, it uses the internal serial number which is not changed.

As a result, if you double click on the catalog.pse14db files on the old drive, your organizer in your new computer should open the catalog ignoring the letter drive.

If that works as I expect, do a full backup for safety.

Where do you want to store your photo files library and your catalog? A restore can be the solution to move them.