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I have to move my photos and associated catalogs from my hard drive to an external drive — not back up (I already do that to a second external drive) but move the whole kit and kaboodle to a new external drive, retaining the file structure of the photos folder.
Using PE5 to move is a non-starter, since it insists on renaming the files and throwing everything into a single folder.
My problem is copying the files and the catalogs breaks the link between the two — I have to reconnect them somehow. The auto-reconnect function is practically useless — it searches for one file for a few hours without finding it (I have a peferred file structure into which I put all new files and then catalog them with PE5) and eventually stops responding.
Using the manual reconnect window sorrt of works, although it’s a herculean task to reconnect over 40,000 files, but the worst problem is that PE5 crashes peridodically, and if the database has not explicitly updated (by exiting the manual reconnect window and letting it run trhough a 5+-minute update), then changes to the database are lost and have to be redone.
I’d like to find some simple way to move the files and their catalogs from the current drive, while retaining the folder structure of the native files, without having to go through the reconnect function or, alternatively, find some way to do it without losing my work every time PE5 gives up the ghost.
I’d also consider switching products (since I only use the organize function of PE5 and do all my photo editing in Photoshop itself), if there were one that was sufficiently robust *and* compatible with PE5’s .PSA files.
Any suggestions? TIA
Using PE5 to move is a non-starter, since it insists on renaming the files and throwing everything into a single folder.
My problem is copying the files and the catalogs breaks the link between the two — I have to reconnect them somehow. The auto-reconnect function is practically useless — it searches for one file for a few hours without finding it (I have a peferred file structure into which I put all new files and then catalog them with PE5) and eventually stops responding.
Using the manual reconnect window sorrt of works, although it’s a herculean task to reconnect over 40,000 files, but the worst problem is that PE5 crashes peridodically, and if the database has not explicitly updated (by exiting the manual reconnect window and letting it run trhough a 5+-minute update), then changes to the database are lost and have to be redone.
I’d like to find some simple way to move the files and their catalogs from the current drive, while retaining the folder structure of the native files, without having to go through the reconnect function or, alternatively, find some way to do it without losing my work every time PE5 gives up the ghost.
I’d also consider switching products (since I only use the organize function of PE5 and do all my photo editing in Photoshop itself), if there were one that was sufficiently robust *and* compatible with PE5’s .PSA files.
Any suggestions? TIA
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