Michel has a lot of experience with the organiser and has pointed out some of the dangers to avoid. sooner or later hard drives will fail.ġ9:55:22 GMT Chris said:gfmucci, thank you for mentioning this. Whatever method you use, its very important to make a backup. I have used syncing programmes for many years and have never experienced any problems with the LR catalogue. I don't use the PSE organiser, but I do use the Adobe Lightroom organiser catalogue that works on a similar principle. It just copies files from one place to another. The organiser will continue working just fine.īasically a sync programme does exactly the same thing but with some extra bells and whistles. Then you plug in a usb and use copy and paste to copy all your photos to the usb and remove it. (Please can someone correct me if I am wrong on this point- I am always learning new things from the forum)įor example, say you have all your photos in the "My pictures" folder. The elements organiser should work fine as long as you do not change the location (or path) of your original files, otherwise it will show them as disconnected. You can use sync programmes or other methods to make a backup of your photos. You just have to be careful during the procedure, especially when using cloud solutions. But in his post he also mentions that he has successfully used sync programmes to make backups. jpg image relieves them of having to use the edited setting in the Organizer/Catalog combo. It WILL create problems for the Catalog and connections to image files.įor those who do not use the Organizer and only use the Editor, I guess the "Save As" to a new. So unless we know and understand the platform of photo organizer (generic) the person providing advice uses, we may be misled into believing that their non-Elements Organizer (specific) method of backups will work for those of us who rely on the Organizer in Elements when it WILL NOT. THAT is where advice on this and any Post Processing board can go awry. On the other hand, those of us who DO use the Organizer in Elements and rely on it for backups as well as organizing and retrieving our images and edits should NOT follow the advice of those who do NOT use the Organizer. For users of Elements who do NOT use the Organizer but apparently only the Editor, their system of backup outside of Elements works and makes sense for them - and for others who do the same.
So, both Buckskin and Chris are NOT using the Organizer/Catalogs of Elements. If I delete from A then it will be deleted from B. if I add a file to A it will be added to B. With FreeFileSync if I set up Folder A as the original folder and B as the backup folder then "Mirror" means that folder will have the exact same contents as A. Then apply those settings to configure your real backup. My only word of warning is to read the instructions very carefully and do a test run on a dummy folder to make sure you have configured all the settings correctly so you don't accidentally delete anything you need. In fact I bought a 4Tbt drive and regularly back up all my personal files this way at least once a week. My procedure is to connect an external drive, do a mirror back up and then safely remove the drive. I have never used Syncredible but I am sure it must do the same job very well. Then I switched to FreeFileSync because it is faster and has better features. Some time ago I used Microsoft SyncToy (Free).
I gave up on the elements organiser a long time ago and I prefer to organise my pictures using Windows Explorer. Gfmucci using a third party backup programme (eg SyncToy, Syncredible or FreeFileSync) will not affect your organiser catalogue because it does not in any way change the contents of the original folder that is connected to the Elements organiser.