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Post by first5 on Mar 4, 2017 15:32:16 GMT
Thanks Buckskin. I appreciate your comments. And I say,"amen" to "getting your pictures organized will change your life for the better." Thanks too for the idea of leaving previous versions installed.
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Post by first5 on Mar 3, 2017 18:10:00 GMT
Awesome! I can't thank each of you enough. As you can no doubt tell I'm a total rookie so all of your help is greatly appreciated. I'll be knee-deep in photo reorganization for some time to come and look forward to your further help from time to time. Everyone here is so considerate and helpful. Thanks again.
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Post by first5 on Mar 1, 2017 22:15:43 GMT
Thanks again for all of the input. I'm not sure which way to go now that you both have tried to help. I do know that I want to uninstall PSE4 and install the latest version. Can you guide me, in simple terms, through that process?
Thanks for your patient understanding.
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Post by first5 on Feb 27, 2017 20:50:51 GMT
Again I want to thank both of you for your response.
All of the information would seem to help an average person but, I guess I'm less than average and don't understand much of what was provided.
Am I wrong to want to redo my hard drive by reorganizing my picture files in a logical way outside of any Adobe software? If it makes sense, I want to reorganize my pictures on an external hard drive then after that is complete install the latest version of Elements on that same external hard drive, import the reorganized picture files into the Elements organizer and use it from then on to keep my photos organized. I don't want PES4 and any catalogs associated with it which are a mess to be part of my new system of organizing.
Sorry for being such a dope.
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Post by first5 on Feb 26, 2017 14:19:38 GMT
Thanks for your response. Maybe I was not too clear in my post. I want to uninstall PSE4, reorganize all of my picture file structure on an external hard drive then use PSE15 as my primary organizing software. I only use Lightroom for some occasional editing. At this point I would like to know how to do a clean uninstall of PSE4.
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Post by first5 on Feb 25, 2017 23:15:55 GMT
Since I began without any good file system for organizing my pictures I would like to start over from scratch with my picture file structure. I have PSE4 and I want to uninstall it cleanly since I haven't used it much since I installed Lightroom quite a while ago. I want to delete all of the associated catalogs and tags as well. I would like to purchase PSE15 to include all of the new "reorganization" once it is completed on an external hard drive and perhaps keep and use Lightroom for some future editing. I am using Windows 7. What are the pitfalls that I will no doubt encounter and what should I be doing besides (of course) a full backup of my current pictures?
Any step by step instruction will be greatly appreciated.
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Post by first5 on Dec 16, 2016 18:45:23 GMT
Excellent, I really appreciate all of your suggestions and help. Thank you once again for your helpful response.
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Post by first5 on Dec 16, 2016 2:40:27 GMT
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll check it out but not quite sure how to delete the duplicates by filename.
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Post by first5 on Dec 15, 2016 2:33:40 GMT
Sargenta1, Thanks for responding. I know this will sound bad but I'm not exactly sure what I did to cause the duplicates. There does appear to be two copies of My Catalog both with the same date and time but one shows 344 KB and the other shows 412 KB. Looking at my library/catalog/all photographs it is showing the duplicates and a total of 12,134 pics. I've taken a lot of pictures but probably only half that number.
Thanks again for responding. I hope you can help this rookie.
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Post by first5 on Dec 14, 2016 21:02:08 GMT
I'm an admitted rookie so please be kind. I manged somehow to duplicate my entire photo catalog. Is there a way to safely delete duplicate photos in Lightroom 5.6? I'll appreciate all the help I can get. Note: I'm transitioning from Elements 9 which also has the duplicates, of course. Thanks
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