Transfer photo's/catalog from Crashed Computer

[jimb16380276]

Recently had computer die.  Have access to old system hard drive on new computer.  Thoughts on easiest way to transfer old photo's/database to new computer? 

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.

Latest backup didn't include all the files so am looking for another option. Old computer Win7.  New Computer Win10.  Photoshop and Premier Elements 14

Thanks

[MichelBParis]

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.

[jimb16380276]

Thanks for the response.  I was able to open up old catalog on old system drive.  Completed full backup.  Restore did not work properly.  Looks like catalog of all files intact but actual files/photo's (mostly NEF and jpg) are missing as is file structure.  Lots of XML stuff.  Going to repeat and try again but am a little frustrated.  Should be this hard.