Not able to find my photographs in Adobe Photoshop Elements Organizer !!!

Recently I saw one post on Adobe Forums where one of our elements friend was not able to find his files which were imported two months back. Since there can be multiple reasons of files missing in a catalog, so it was not an easy task to guess what all could have caused this. Here I would want to share few basic things that give information about files in a catalog, how they are shown in different views, count, hiding some particular files etc.

Here is some information which may be helpful for troubleshooting problems of not finding files...

How Backup/Sync helps when your files are missing from hard-drive due to some reason? (Reconnect missing files from www.Photoshop.com)

Reconnect missing files from www.Photoshop.com:

It’s an extended benefit of Backup/Sync in Elements Organizer. As you are aware that Reconnect dialog in Elements Organizer helps in locating missing files. So if any of your file get missed from your hard-drive which was Synchronized to www.photoshop.com, that can be reconnected form online version.

Elements organizer catalog reports a file as ‘missing’ with a symbol if the location of the original file is changed or the original file has been deleted from desktop. It then prompts you to ‘reconnect’ the missing files to be able to view them in the catalog. Quite often automatic reconnect, browsing or choosing close matches helps. But in case the file has been lost from the desktop beyond recovery then Backup/Sync comes handy. If you have used this feature to create an online backup for your files then there is nothing to worry about. You can easily recover the missing files by choosing the ‘Check Online’option. Image below highlights the same. Choosing it will search the missing file in your photoshop.com account and reconnect them. Here lies the greatest advantage of Backup/Sync feature.It is always recommended to Sync your albums and photos in order to safeguard them from accidental deletes by maintaining an online backup.