Some External drives can create problems while taking Backup of your Catalogs in Elements Organizer

Many times it happens that Organizer goes in long wait-time while taking Backup of Catalogs and at times, overall performance goes down. At this point of time, people think that Back feature has stopped working.

There can be various reasons for slow response, but one of the main reason found on forums is - External Drives. Not all, but some of the external hard-drives create this problem. So simply remove your external drives and see if it helps. 

Here is one of the sample post on Adobe-Forums which talks about a similar problem - http://forums.adobe.com/message/4458794#4458794

How to restore back-ups of older versions (7.0, 8.0, 9.0) in latest version of Adobe Photoshop Elements (10.0) || Restoring PSE7/8/9 catalogs in PSE10

Here we are going to talk about very basic workflow of Backup/Restore between different versions of Adobe Photoshop Elements. Every latest version of Adobe Photoshop Version supports backward compatibility for Catalogs, which means that any catalog of older versions can be reused in upper versions of Adobe Photoshop Elements. Normal Catalogs of old versions can be converted directly into newer version catalogs and if there are backups of catalogs, restore operation automatically convert the catalog for new version. Let's take an example of PSE8 backup which we want to restore in PSE10 -

1. Launch Organizer of Adobe Photoshop Elements 10.0

2. Go to Restore option under File Menu

3. Go through guided steps of locating backed up files and start restore. 

Hopefully Restore in newer version works well for you. Please feel free to post any comments for further queries around specific scenario about Backup-Restore in Adobe Photoshop Elements.

How to restore Adobe Photoshop Elements after Computer/iMAC Crash

This is one of the common question asked on Adobe Forums, Elements Village or Feedback.photoshop.com, which is very unfortunate condition to be in. If this has happened with you first time and you were only using Adobe Photoshop Elements, there shouldn't be any problem related to installation of Adobe Photoshop Elements on same machine after restoration of Operating System.

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.