![]() ![]() We don't know how to reconnect that catalog so Elements Organizer recognizes it. One restore catalog file attempt indicates that at least one of the two missing catalogs exists already. We have all the previous photos and back-ups stored on a dedicated external hard drive and it appeared that the E2020 found one of the three catalogs.Ģ. Have tried to follow directions from the support pages to restore the other two but to no avail. We had three catalogs on the old MBPro E15 version. The installation was successful except for:ġ. After a successful migration, we upgraded our Elements 15 to Elements 2020. We had to replace our ancient MacBook Pro with a new MacBook Air. Or, if you don't have enough diskspace, you delete first and restore after.ġ. The most obvious way in your case seems to create a new custom master folder and restore there with the original folder structure and then to use the Finder to delete everything under the old custom master folder. You have your own 'custom' master folder, which is good. Now, I assume the restored catalog is working normally and your problem is the (unused) duplicates created in your last attempts. The conversion process is much faster than a backup followed by a restore and nothing is altered in your 'custom' media folders tree. If you miss that opportunity, it's still possible to do the conversion from the catalog manager of PSE2020. The conversion means the old catalog is read and all its contents are recovered in a new catalog in the latest database format. A restore from a full backup is not needed. The short answer is that what you should have done when installing PSE2020 is to simply accept the message asking you to 'convert' the previous catalog. Is there some way to just restore the catalog without restoring the photos? Is there some way to just move the folders back into their correct place? What did I do wrong? How do I get the catalog restored and pointing to the existing files in the existing folder structure?Īre these the only options: restore folders in a flattened folder structure or duplicate my entire user folder under my photos folder? ![]() Again I have duplicate folders with duplicated photos in the wrong place. Using the example above, I now have “~/myPictures/Users/myName/myPictures/myTravels/EuropeTrip/Madrid”. This time it created an entirely new folder structure, duplicating the entire file path (from root) within my pictures folder. I did the restore again, this time requesting that it restore the original folder structure. I renamed the newly created catalog folders so that PSE would think there was no catalog. The catalog pointed to the new folder, not the original folder. For example, if I had photos in “~/myPictures/myTravels/EuropeTrip/Madrid”, the catalog restoration created a new folder with the same photos in “~/myPictures/Madrid”. It restored the catalog data successfully, but flattened out the folder structure so now I had duplicate folders (with duplicate files) in the top level, as well as lower in the folder structure. The first time I tried the restore, I neglected to select “Restore original folder structure”. I should mention that I am using a custom location for the catalog. I installed PSE 2020 just today & did a catalog restore from the external disk. I restored these photo folders and files from other backups. This structure had not changed from pre-Catalina installation. ![]() My photos are on the Mac’s internal disk in a sub-folder, organized into a folder structure that makes sense to me. Before I updated, I did a full catalog backup to an external disk. Previously I had PSE 2019, but it became unusable when I updated to MacOS Catalina. I would really hate to lose all this data. I have thousands of photos, all annotated. ![]()
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