Problem after moving ''Pictures'' to a...

Windows Vista. Photoshop Elements 4.0.

I, foolishly it seems, moved my Pictures folder from c drive to d drive. There are several thousand pictures.

When I then started Photoshop Organiser the program immediately went in to a search . While doing this the priogram would not accept any commands and could only be closed through Task Manager. I left it running for several hours but there was no change. I am not even sure that it was doing anything - there didn't appear to be any processor activity. But if it was searching through the whole computer for each photo in turn this could take weeks!

I then moved the pictures folder back to its original location. This did not solve the problem. The program just went into this endless search.

I then uninstalled the program and reinstalled it assuming that with a clean sheet I could point the program to my pictures folder and all would be well. However this didn't work. As soon as I started the program it went into this endless search again! I noticed that it had picked up my Collections from the previous installation so I guess there must be some data or index files somewhere that were not deleted in the uninstall and told the program to look for my pictures.

Any suggestions as to what I can do now?

Problem after moving ''Pictures'' to a...

PSE 4 is not supported on Vista.?PSE 5 and above are.?That may be part of your problem.

Did you move the pictures folder to precisely its original location??Are the path names exactly the same??I would expect that moving the folder back would solve the problem.

If you are familiar with MS Access you can use that to edit your .psa file and change drive letters.?I believe Open Office has a database program that will work also.

Did you do a file%26gt;catalog%26gt;recover at any point??That often clears up catalog problems.

Problem after moving ''Pictures'' to a...

Thanks, yes, it seems it was a catalog error, which I have corrected. Not come across this before. In fact I don't really know what a catalog is but I'm back in business now!