Organizer Restore is a MESS!

[Scrapbird]

I am still getting my computer back together after my crash; I have some (hopefully!) useful advice to share with you all when I am through. But that's another post....

I restored my PSE6 photo catalog from an external hard drive, and it is a mess. The dates are all wrong and all the tags are assigned to the wrong photos. It is not fixable; I'd have to redo the tags and dates on 2500 photos. Starting over would actually take less time. And I haven't even tried restoring my Scrapbooking catalog!
Do any Organizer users have any ideas why this would happen? I restored a PSE6 catalog to PSE6 on the same Vista computer with a newly formatted hard drive.

Diane

[lizj]

Yikes. I don't know why that would happen, but I know people who will know. Post at the forums in Elements Village, those people know all this stuff.

I don't tag photos in my Organizer, so I can't comment on that. But, I do use my Organizer strictly for digital supplies, and I had a very successful catalog restore from an EHD in PSE5. It took a couple of hours, but all my tags were right where they were supposed to be, so I know that it is possible to run the restore successfully from an EHD. I am running XP though, and I recall seeing some posts on the above site about Vista problems. Maybe try posting your concerns there first and see if one of those PSE gurus can give you some ideas about restoring with Vista. HTH