Organizer Backup Question

[givenout]

Hello -

I think I might be getting closer to cleaning up the mess I have.

I backed up my organizer today (it took 4 hours!) and when it was done I just have a list of my photos and no folders or tags! I thought when the organizer was backed up it saved the folders and tags from the organizer. What did I do wrong?

Thanks,

Stacy

[troush]

Stacy,

People have had problems with the Organizer backup. I just use other software to backup my hard drives (I just back up everything).

When it does a backup, it somehow makes a copy of the organizer, and then renames all the photos and flattens the directory structure.

Did you back up to CD or external drive?

-Trish

[givenout]

Hello Trish -

I've heard people talk about problems with organizer, but I didn't realize this was one of them. It's ironic because earlier today I backed up all my photos on an EHD to make sure I didn't lose them and they were saved in their folders through Windows. I specifically backed up the Organizer to make sure I saved the Organizer folders, tags, etc. with the photos.
Go figure!

I'm still trying to clean up the many duplicates of photos and to get the organizer working well.

I did save the "tags" file separately although I don't know how good that will do.

I was thinking of deleting my existing organizer and start new which is why I was backing it up.

I don't know if I should try backing it up a second time?

One other question: I have my pics on three different drives, my HD and 2 different EHD's. What I discovered today is that some of my photos in the organizer are connected to a EHD and when I save then over to my C drive and then to the Organizer it says the pics are already in the Organizer. How do I get all my pics on the c drive so that I don't always have to have one or both the EHD's on when using the Organizer?

Thanks so much,

Stacy

[troush]

Stacy,

To move the photos from the EHD to your internal HD, use the Move command within the Organizer.

-Trish