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Organiser back up

Jul 25, 2012 5:20 AM

I store my photographs (around 6000 at moment) on an external frive (1TB). Should I still have to back up organiser? My problem is that if I open organiser in "Folder Location" mode then it is very slow to open. I use Photoshop Elements 9.

Jim

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  • 99jon
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    Jul 25, 2012 5:29 AM   in reply to gunmakers27
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    Yes I would recommend backing up particularly as external hdd’s are prone to failure.

    You can start from Organizer (press Ctrl+B) and on the first occasion make a full back-up.

    Periodically you can then make incremental backups which will be much quicker.

    You can use disks or a second external drive.

     

     

     
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    Jul 25, 2012 5:35 AM   in reply to 99jon
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    Thanks for the quick reply. Is it usual for Organiser to slow up, especially in Folder Location view? Does it use much memory? I have 4GB

    JIm

     
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    Jul 25, 2012 5:39 AM   in reply to gunmakers27
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    Folder location view can be slower to launch and you can only view the contents of one folder at a time. I tend to use thumbnail view most of the time in conjunction with albums and keywords. I switch to folder or import batch views only when necessary.

     

     
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    Jul 25, 2012 11:01 AM   in reply to gunmakers27
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    Folder Location view will be slow to open because the Organizer is going through your system to enumerate all the drives, folders, etc.  Any work you do to the actual image files will also be slow because reading and writing to external drives is slower than accessing your internal drive.

     

    PSE is a 32-bit application and the Organizer will only use at most about 3.2Gb of memory (on a 64-bit Windows system).  With 4Gb of memory on your machine, you'll simply need to avoid running other applications in the background when using PSE.

     

    Ken

     
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    Jul 26, 2012 1:10 AM   in reply to photodrawken
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    Hi

    Thank you for all the help received from this site. I wish I had discovered it a while ago when I first started using Organiser. The mistake I think I made then was to store my motor racing photographs on an external drive. I realise now that I should have stored it on my internal drive. I see now that backing up to the original destination seems self defeating. I have now copied all the files to a partition of the internal drive. The trouble is that Organiser is still using the files from the external drive. How can I make Organiser use the files from the  PCs hard drive and just use the external drive for back up?

    Jim

     
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    Jul 26, 2012 1:32 AM   in reply to gunmakers27
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    I assume you used Windows Explorer to copy the files to the new location and that the original files are still on your external drive.  The simplest (and safest) thing to do is:

    1. Use Windows Explorer to move the files from their current directory on your external drive into a new directory on that external drive.
    2. With the external drive still connected, start the Organizer.  The files will be listed as "Missing".
    3. Use File...Reconnect...All Missing Files, pause the reconnection process and browse to the location on your internal drive, then resume the reconnection.

     

    It'll take a while.

     

    Ken

     
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    Jul 26, 2012 6:06 AM   in reply to photodrawken
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    Hi

    Thanks very much for your help. I have moved the files to another directory/folder on my external drive. I open Organiser and it seems to do nothing. I go File>"Reconnect all missing files" and it starts reconnecting immediately.Do you think it may be taking the files from my new folder in the external drive? How can I pause that process in order to open my internal drive directory/folder? Im sorry to be a pain

     
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    Jul 26, 2012 10:31 AM   in reply to gunmakers27
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    When you see the "Reconnecting" window, hit the "Browse" button.  That will stop the reconnecting and display another, larger window where you can point the reconnection to your internal drive.

     

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