Reconnect to one or more missing files – Adobe Elements Organizer 9 User Manual
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USING ELEMENTS 9 ORGANIZER
Managing files and catalogs
Last updated 9/12/2011
Reconnect to one or more missing files
Most often, missing files appear in the Media Browser with the missing file icon
. However, sometimes you are not
aware that a file is missing until you attempt to use it. For example, for operations such as to print, e-mail, edit, or
export the file. In such instances, the Reconnect Missing Files dialog box opens.
1 In the Media Browser or Date view, do one of the following:
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Select one or more items with the missing file icon
in the Media Browser. Then choose File
> Reconnect >
Missing File.
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Choose File
> Reconnect > All Missing Files. It’s not necessary to select the missing items in the Media Browser.
Photoshop Elements begins validating all the items in your catalog and, if the exact match is found, it reconnects
the file.
2 If an exact match isn’t found, do one of the following in the dialog box that appears:
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Wait while Elements
Organizer searches for the missing files. If it cannot find and reconnect some files, the
Reconnect Missing Files dialog box opens.
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Click Browse to open the Reconnect Missing Files dialog box, and manually find and reconnect missing files.
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Click Cancel to stop the search.
3 In the Reconnect Missing Files dialog box, select one or more missing files from the Files Missing From Catalog list
(on the left). Shift-click to select files in a series. Ctrl-click/Cmd-click to select nonadjacent files.
Information about the selected media file appears below the list.
4 Under Locate The Missing Files (on the right), do any of the following:
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To navigate to a file, click the Browse tab to see the last known folder location for the file. Navigate to the new
location of the file. Select a folder or disk drive and click Find to search that folder or disk drive for the file. When
you find the file, select it, and click Reconnect.
Note: Find works for files that have been moved to a different folder but not renamed or deleted. It also works for files
that have been renamed but not moved. If files have been renamed and moved, Elements
Organizer lists files that have
different names but the same modification date and size as the disconnected files. You can then choose from these close
matches.
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To see close matches of a selected file, click the Show Close Matches tab. If your file appears, select it, and click
Reconnect.
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To remove any reference to the selected items from the catalog, click the Delete From Catalog button. Use this
option if the original has been deleted and there is no file to reconnect. This option has the same effect as deleting
the items from the Media Browser without deleting them from the hard disk.
Note: The files that could not be reconnected are still visible in the missing files list.