John R Ellis psedbtool ???

When John R Ellis created this tool, he was a longstanding and active member in the now-closed Elements Village forum and in the Adobe Photoshop Elements forum. He was widely recognized as an expert at Elements. Now he has moved on to Lightroom.


I believe this is what he means .  .  .

If you are having problems with the installation of this tool and you have posted in either one of those forums asking for help, you should attach (copy/paste) the results displayed in NotePad to your thread. This will help with the troubleshooting process.

BTW, if you want to put a face to a name . . .    

John R Ellis

Sepiana -

That's the way I read it too. It's merely a troubleshooting device.

Buckskin, just ignore and unzip and install the file.

Well..., I am in a bit of a puzzlement; I went to my downloads folder, hi-lited the psedbtool zip-file, and clicked "open", at which point a windows un-zipper window appeared with C:\psedbtool already entered as the destination folder for the contents; I clicked "okay" and here is the contents in that folder:



The colorful circle file takes you to here:

file:///C:/psedbtool/psedbtool.htm

which is exactly the same text you get when you go here:

www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/

At this point, I have not yet seen any installation wizard.

It matters not whether I hi-lite and click "open" or just double-click the .exe file (the top one in the picture), a small black window with a bit of white text appears for just a split second; it won't remain on the screen; it just appears and immediately disappears.

I right-clicked and chose "run as administrator" (I had never before used this option on anything); choosing this brought up the familiar "do you want this file etc. etc. to make changes to the hard drive on this computer?"; I was too big a chicken to click "yes"; I Xed it away and decided to ask the experts before I proceed further.

What major catastrophe could take place if I did click "yes" to run this as administrator ?

Has anyone else ever installed psedbtool ?

Does it install itself as a plug-in to the organizer; and, if not, then how does it communicate with the organizer ?

Please, somebody smarter than me help me get this up and running.


Earlier today, I used "write tags and metadata to files" and then had to pick through the folder and rename about thirty files back to the name they had prior to "write tags and metadata..."; Elements had left them sporting that _edTMP-1 suffix planted on them; hence, I then got interested in getting this psedbtool up and running.

Thanks for reading.

Okay, with the Organizer open --- I figure since this tool deals with the organizer that maybe it needs be open ---,I open the .bat-file thingie and I get this:




Clicking on the hidden black window to bring it to the front gets this:



That little bar underneath the text at the left side is winking like maybe it is a cursor.

This may be as simple as falling off the tater wagon that I rode in on, but it sure is a mystery to me.

Thanks for reading.

Elements 7 and catalog should be in default location.

There is nothing in my C:\psedbtool folder except for the original three files I pictured earlier.


Thanks.

I have no idea why that says system 32; in the folder tree it is Computer > Windows(C:) > psedbtool; when I first downloaded the zip-file, I clicked "run" and a windows un-zipper popped up with that location already chosen.

Maybe I should rename/hide that folder and start all over at the beginning; what do you think?

I am mostly wanting to use the write metadata to files feature as when I let the organizer do it I get all sorts of corruptions.

Thanks so much for having the patience to help me.


On EDIT:   I just renamed/hid the psedbtool folder and started fresh from the beginning with no change in my results.

When you un-zipped your files, did you get any install wizard to actually install the .exe file ?

Thanks.

That time, you got it right.
The result shown in notepad is an analysis of how your various drives are recorded in the database.
When a catalog is created, each time you import files from a given media: intenal/external drive, thumb drive, CD/DVD, it catalogs the properties of that media.
The run.bat is a file type to run a series of command lines; it includes calling an .exe program which is used to issue a query to the database engine.
What you see in Notepad is in part what you could see by using an sqlite browser with the volume_table table, plus other results like the number of files (and missing files) in each volume.
That's important to know why you get certain errors, as described in the help text file; for instance, twice the same drive letter.