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I moved some photo image files in my favorite file manager … and when I loaded up PSE4, and tried to view the files in the Folder view, they were not displayed under the appropriate folder. I tried Get Photos from the new location folder again, but I just got an error message … "photo already in the Catalog" or something like that.
Now, it seems the only way to get Catalog to display thumbnails for these photos in the proper folders is to "reconnect" the missing photos. It looks like PSE searches the entire disk for each file, one at a time, and then for the next "missing" file, repeats the whole process all over again! The alternative is to manually navigate to the new location folder, and reconnect. Another bad surprise there when I did THAT … PSE rotated my photos after I had already rotated them the way I wanted them to be! I had to rotate them again.
This all just seems NUTS to me … I can’t believe that such a highly-praised product doesn’t do a better job. PSE should automatically change its catalog to reflect the new location of moved image files. It already knows that the file is already in the catalog … it shouldn’t be hard to do this. Is there some way to get PSE to do this, that I am missing?
The only way to avoid these problems is to work with the photos EXCLUSIVELY with PSE … but I don’t want to be forced to do that. I have other programs I want to be able to use.
Now, it seems the only way to get Catalog to display thumbnails for these photos in the proper folders is to "reconnect" the missing photos. It looks like PSE searches the entire disk for each file, one at a time, and then for the next "missing" file, repeats the whole process all over again! The alternative is to manually navigate to the new location folder, and reconnect. Another bad surprise there when I did THAT … PSE rotated my photos after I had already rotated them the way I wanted them to be! I had to rotate them again.
This all just seems NUTS to me … I can’t believe that such a highly-praised product doesn’t do a better job. PSE should automatically change its catalog to reflect the new location of moved image files. It already knows that the file is already in the catalog … it shouldn’t be hard to do this. Is there some way to get PSE to do this, that I am missing?
The only way to avoid these problems is to work with the photos EXCLUSIVELY with PSE … but I don’t want to be forced to do that. I have other programs I want to be able to use.
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