LinusF
July 17th, 2008, 12:23 PM
In RESTORing a catalog onto a new machine (I wanted to migrate a catalog to a new machine), I found out there are a number of gotcha's in the PSE6 process. One of them concerns BACKUPs and RESTOREs on different drives. It appears to be MUCH better to make sure that both have the same drive letter (like C:).
When I BACKed UP on a G: drive on one machine and RESTOREd to the F: drive on the new machine, Adobe support and I believe that part of the process still held onto the G: drive in some cases --- even though there was no G: on the new machine! It was a G: for Ghost drive which showed up in the "File Manager" in grey & UNCONNECTED.
It also went out and found hundreds of pictures on the new C: drive --- which were copies of files on the old F: drive --- and then did not write them to the new G:. It just took the C: drive pix as the ones it was looking for. And not all of them either. Verrry confusing.
When I BACKed UP on a G: drive on one machine and RESTOREd to the F: drive on the new machine, Adobe support and I believe that part of the process still held onto the G: drive in some cases --- even though there was no G: on the new machine! It was a G: for Ghost drive which showed up in the "File Manager" in grey & UNCONNECTED.
It also went out and found hundreds of pictures on the new C: drive --- which were copies of files on the old F: drive --- and then did not write them to the new G:. It just took the C: drive pix as the ones it was looking for. And not all of them either. Verrry confusing.