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1. Re: How do you move collections from Photoshop Elements 5.0 to Photoshop Elements 13?
MichelBParis Nov 14, 2014 12:39 PM (in response to helpmepleaze)helpmepleaze a écrit:
I have an old laptop with Photoshop elements 5.0 and wanted to move that program to my newer PC but the program was too old so I bought and loaded Photoshop Elements 13 on my PC. To import my photos from the 5.0 I did a full backup on a flash drive and then loaded the pictures to the PC with 13. The pictures are there but none of my collections from 5.0. I read the manual and said I was supposed to be prompted to convert old catalogs. I was never prompted and do not know how to transfer my collections in my catalog from 5.0 to the 13.
What you are doing is not only to install a newer version of PSE, it's also to migrate to a new computer.
The general solution is to do a full organizer backup on an external drive and do an organizer restore to the new computer (or new drive).
Use Backup, Restore to move catalog | Organizer | Elements 6 or later
The problem is that since PSE5 is an old version working with a different database engine, you must first use a conversion utility to create a PSE13 version.
http://helpx.adobe.com/elements-organizer/kb/convert-organizer-catalog-elements-13-64.html
So read that paper carefully, do the backup restore and conversion as described.
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2. Re: How do you move collections from Photoshop Elements 5.0 to Photoshop Elements 13?
dj113 Nov 27, 2014 7:35 AM (in response to helpmepleaze)I have the same issue what did you do to solve It . conversion from elements 6 instructs do not work as i have elements 5
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3. Re: How do you move collections from Photoshop Elements 5.0 to Photoshop Elements 13?
MichelBParis Nov 27, 2014 7:42 AM (in response to dj113)dj113 a écrit:
I have the same issue what did you do to solve It . conversion from elements 6 instructs do not work as i have elements 5
I have converted Elements 5 catalogs to PSE13 following the above two steps procedure. With PSE12 the conversion from version 5 worked exactly the same as version 6 or later catalogs. The difference is that with version 4 or 5, the catalog is named catalog.psa (it's a different database engine, Access instead of Sqlite).
Where do you have problems in the process? Do you get a message?

