PSE Organizer 24 can't find my Catalogue - Resolved

I haven't studied the workings of Organiser and catalogues all that much other than to let Organiser show all photos in the Pictures folder when opening and letting it backup the catalogue when it closes down. I can't really help with the current problems you are having but wonder if it has anything to do with the disk space message you have been receiving?

I read you have 41,000 photos stored. That is quite a number. Photos coming off a camera can be around 3 or 4 megabytes each and 41,000 at that size would require a lot of disk space, perhaps really more than is available. My main back-up is on a 1TB external USB drive and I do this backup manually. It could be worth trying to do a second back up all your photos onto a clean large USB external drive to see exactly how much disk space they do take up. The available disk space on the drive you are currently using for back-up could be the basic cause of the troubles being experienced. Just a thought.

Windows own photos app does a pretty good job of showing a collection of photos. Using that could be an alternative for you.

Thank you Sepiana, your help is much appreciated as always.

Mart44 I don't think space is causing my problems (it could be the person behind the keyboard though!)

I store my photos on a 2TB external hard drive with 1.08TB free. I generally put my backups on the same external drive. The last one was backup.tly: 24,685KB Catalog.buc: 295,251KB

I am currently backing up to the D:drive whch has 494GB free.

I've no idea about how to convert kbs or gbs to tbs to compare.


I've used the Organizer for 20 years and can locate a particular photo within 3 minutes of searching by using it. I'd be loathe to change to something else after all those years.

I've managed to convert the catalogue. Don't ask me how, I just kept clicking until the two catalogs turned up. Both have now been successfully converted.