Thank you for your reply Joel. No, I have not given each individual photo a specific name, and my camera does not reset the name and sequence number. So I think I satisfy your two criteria.

Unless I misunderstand however, I think you are suggesting a Windows copy, to which I would agree with your solution. But I am thinking that I need to do the copy within Photoshop itself, (a "Get"), so that Photoshop and the Catalog have knowledge of the copy -- else it wouldn't end up in the Catalog would it?

So I think my question is,"is there some feature (or some way), within Photoshop itself, to prevent itself from accepting another copy of the same exact photo that it already has in its database"?

Thank you very much again for any guidance,
David

On Sat, 28 May 2011 13:40:11 -0500, Joel wrote:

*Unless* you have already given each individual photo a specific name then Windows should be able to detect and give you the permission Yes/No to overwrite it/them.

*If* your camera won't reset the Name_##### but the #### increasing then you should have no problem (some older camera does)

*If* your camera reset the Name_##### and you didn't save them in separated folder then I don't see much of option. Besides using graphic viewer *or* sorting by DATE then go from there

David wrote:

After a system crash, everything has been scrambled. I'm now trying to rebuild it. I'm still on PSE 4.0, so perhaps my setup is too primitive for my question -- but I'll try:

Is there some way to "GET" photos from various folders, while avoiding "GET"ting multiple copies of photos that may already be in the Organizer? If there were just a few, I could handle this manually. But I have many hundreds, if not thousands.

It appears that I have been able to salvage most of the Tag and Collection structures of the Catalog from an older backup, but there are a lot of pictures still missing.

David

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