Naffed up My Elements tags

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recently got a new pc. On the previous one I did an Elements back up and backed up to an external hard drive. (All my pics lived under a folder: C:\Data\)

I set up the new Pc and once Id got round to installing elements I restored from the backup on the external hard disk.

Once Id done this, I noticed a week or so later that it had restored my photos to a directory like : C:\data\data, and then all my original subfolders.
I didnt like this so I used windows explorer to drag all folders below the 2nd level "data" folder up into the first level "data" folder as I had it previously.
Elements has now lost track of them all and all my tagged photos just show blank icons with a big ? on them in the organiser. I can right click and it will search and refind the photo but this takes time. I cant seem to find a way to resynch all the pictures at once.
Is there a way to do it?
Or will I have to restore again and put up with the double nested C:\data\data problem? :bang:

Thanks all
 
If it works anything like Lightroom it would be best to move them on the file system from within Elements.
 
it would be doing that because elements still has the locations of you photos under C:/data/date. but you have moved them away from that folder. elements is still looking for them in that folder but they are no longer there. hence the black thumb with question mark.
 
thething84 said:
it would be doing that because elements still has the locations of you photos under C:/data/date. but you have moved them away from that folder. elements is still looking for them in that folder but they are no longer there. hence the black thumb with question mark.
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Yes I realised that, wanted to know how to fix it. Now I know, I think. Just need to find time to try it.
 
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