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Hi codebreaker.
I am aware of what Adobe did and why--and that is the exact reason that I stayed with PSE4 over the years. With PSE4, when my Lead Drive L crashed, with my 15,000-image Catalog and the subject images all on that one drive, and the drive was not recoverable, all I had to do was go to my identical external backup HDD, rename it from Drive X to Drive L using the Windows Drive Management function, and my Organizer was up and running, with all my Tags and Collections intact as if nothing had happened, in a matter of seconds.
With PSE7, if you store your catalog and all the items that are in it on one external drive, then make an exact backup of that HDD to another external drive, all the while leaving the actual PSE7 program on the C Drive, one can restore one's damaged catalog from the backup drive immediately, without any renaming or relettering. [bold emphasis added]
That is incorrect.
In fact, whether PSE7 or PSE11, I've just discovered that, if one does not reletter the backup HDD, then one will need to reconnect all the files that the Organizer is keeping track of, which could be very time-consuming.
In other words, whether PSE7 or PSE11, one needs to follow the same relettering procedure that I described for PSE4 earlier in the quotation, if one wishes to instantly recover one's Albums, Tags, etc. in seconds as if no crash of the primary HDD had occurred.
