It should do this automatically.

If not, File->Catalog->Convert

I have a slight variation to this, my Elements 4 was on an XP PC which has failed totally. I have a replacement Win 7 PC on which Elements 4 appears not to want to load. Having sought "chat support" advice I was told I could restore my Elements 4 backup into Elements 10. Having purchased an Elements 10 Upgrade I checked with chat support again to confirm the process and was then told it wasn't possible to convert Elements 4 directly to Elements 10 without going via Elements 6 ?!

As I have a full Elements 4 backup on an external hard drive and have an XP laptop I guess I could recover my Elements 4 backup to the XP laptop and export this to the hard drive IF Elements 10 will actually convert this as the previous post implies (contrary to tech chat advise).

Alternativelly is there any way I can hold of a "trial" version of ELements 6 to perform the intermediate conversion ?

I don't think you need PSE6.

I think you need to put the backup of your PSE4 catalog (which includes the photos) onto a drive that your Win 7 PC can access. Launch PSE10. Then, File->Restore Catalog and then point PSE to your PSE4 catalog backup.

Sorry for delay, got bogged down trying to get the laptop restore to work which was a waste of time because it's hard disc was too small !

As suggested by dj the restore from my PSE4 backup appeared to work and on completion it went into an automatic conversion and also said it had converted successfully. However it gave the message :-

"The catalog named My Catalog.psa has been converted for use with this version of Elements Organizer and the original catalog has been renamed to "d:\xxxxx\My Pictures\My Catalog.psa 1"

On closing this message window I get thumbnails created for a catalog shown as My Catalog 1, which the above message implies is is the unconverted catalog ?

If I open My Catalog it says "No items have been imported to this catalog" !?

So is something wrong or is he conversion message misleading ?

I have an additional problem in that the drive letter on my new PC is different to the original was single drive, new has 2 drives). So for the restore I specified "New Location", pointed at the My Pictures folder under which I wanted the photos. I also requested "Preserve original file structure". This seems to result in the full path from the original PC including "Documents and Settings\User\My Pictures\...." etc beneath the My Pictures which is very cumbersome ! I did try without the "Preserve original ..." but while this didn't create the unwanted additional folder levels it also removed the required folder structure within My Pictures (not surprising really I suppose !).

Is there a "easy" way of moving the folder structure around or would it have to be done for each tagged level ?

Think we're making progress though !

Thanks dj, I have :-

D:\Trevor\My Pictures\Documents and Settings\Trevor\My Documents\My Pictures\required photo folders\sub-folders

I want :-

D:\Trevor\My Pictures\required photo folders\sub-folders

Many thanks, I'll consider my options and have a play.