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peterr54608664
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March 15, 2017
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Using Photoshop Elements 15 on two computers

  • March 15, 2017
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Hi. I have been using Aperture on my iMac for years and have finally taken the plunge and purchased Photoshop Elements 15. I currently have all my photos on my iMac and access them via Aperture either on my iMac or MacBook (the later by accessing my iMac via the MacBook using my network so I am always working with the same file).

I bought PSE15 having been advised that the single license allows me to use it on two machines and I have installed it on both my computers successfully. I have now started to add photos to the Organiser using my iMac but can't find a way of accessing the same same Organiser file using my MacBook.

The help pages seem to suggest I am able to point my MacBook to the Catalogue on my iMac but I can find no way of doing that.

All I am trying to achieve is to be able to use PSE15 on both my machines (not at the same time) so I can access and edit the same set of photos and see those changes whichever computer I use.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Thanks

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MichelBParis
MichelBParis
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March 15, 2017

I am afraid you can't work like before for sharing your library and catalogue on the network.

As far as I know, you can't store the catalog on a network with Macs (I am a Windows user).

So the usual solution to share both your library and catalog on an external drive does not work.

What works well is to store library and catalog on an external USB drive that you plug in alternatively to both computers.

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    peterr54608664Author
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    March 20, 2017

    Thanks very much for your help.

    Can you please advise how I go about creating a new catalog on an external drive. Each time I try and create a new catalog it is automatically created in the depths of my hard drive (StartFragmentCatalog Location: /Users/Pete/Library/Group Containers/JQ525L2MZD.pepe/Application Support/Adobe/Elements Organizer/Catalogs/15.0/My Catalog/).EndFragment

    There is no option to tell PSE where I want to create the catalog and there is no option to move a folder I have already created.

    Thanks again

    MichelBParis
    MichelBParis
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    March 24, 2017

    Sadly not. This is all I have.


    I have searched the pdf help file for Elements Organizer 15 and I don't see anywhere that you can't have 'custom' catalog locations on Macs.

    The only known limitation is:

    Open a catalog

    1Select File > Manage Catalogs.

    2Select the catalog from the list in the Catalog Manager dialog box.

    3Click Open.

    Note: (Mac OS) You cannot access catalogs on a shared network.

    Is your external drive a shared network (NAS) one?

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