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I have Photoshop elements 14 installed on my desktop and laptop. The photo folders are synchronized between them, but I don't mean to keep synchronized and catalogs. What folders/files I need to copy to keep organizing items catalogs and keywords, tags, synchronized on the laptop and the face recognition Office?

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I have Photoshop elements 14 installed on my desktop and laptop. The photo folders are synchronized between them, but I don't mean to keep synchronized and catalogs. What folders/files I need to copy to keep organizing items catalogs and keywords, tags, synchronized on the laptop and the face recognition Office?

Looking for the location of your catalog in the menu help > system information. It's all the folder containing the database file catalog.pse14db.

It's easy to synchronize your catalog...

But...

Even if the media folder tree has the same structure, which does not work and all your files will be displayed as "offline" in the catalog synchronized. The reason is that the catalogue in computer stores the location of the media files by the full path AND the identification of the drive (internal serial number). The synchronized catalog will not find files on computer B.

So, what would be your choice?

-Store your multimedia files on an external drive and plug it alternately on both computers. No need to synchronize media files; You can even save the catalog on the external drive, no need to synchronize the catalog folder either. Downside: who does not act as a backup. You can use your sync as a simple backup to restore in the drive of origin if necessary.

-According to John R Ellis, you can assign the same serial number for both drives.

psedbtool (database of the elements of Photoshop tool)

I have not tested this, but it should work.

-The good old method of backup and restore, forgetting the 'sync' is slow, but much more secure (you have two copies over a backup). The HUGE advantage is that you can easily migrate to another computer and still another version of elements, even another OS.

-My own solution requires some fiddling with the sqlite database and a good understanding of the structure of the database. I have syncs media and catalog or via Synctoy Windows files on an external drive. I create a copy of the catalog I have change in sqlite to point to the serial number of the external drive. The catalogue of the external drive and media are available to any computer with the same version of elements. The advantage of the 'synctoy' method is that it is much easier and faster than an incremental backup in the Organizer.

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