AKA,
I use IMatch to organize my photos, so I have not looked into Organizer in that much detail before. Here is what I found:
Do you happen to know how Elements
organizes the files?
It stores the photo files under My Pictures. It also creates a catalog file to keep track of them all. My catalog file is stored in this directory:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Adobe\Catalogs
Can I copy something to make a backup
of just that catalog?
I see no reason why you could not manually copy the catalog files to make a backup (*.psa and *.ldb), but there should be no need for manual backups because in the Organizer PSE gives you a backup function. See File > Backup.
there doesn’t seem to be any material on
how elements is organized internally
I opened the catalog file in a text editor and it appears to be a database file (can’t read in text editor). It may even be a proprietary format for PSE–don’t know.
Is there a way to view the file names with thumbnails?
Edit > Preferences > General > Show File Names in Detail
Charlie
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