OK, My computer was acting up, it picked up some Malware I was unable to get rid of, so I decided to wipe my hard drive and start fresh (Nuked it). Well I have photoshop elements 9 and I spent countless hours setting up tags and facial recognition and stuff on my thousands of photos. I didn't want to loose that, so I ran backup to external hard drive from PSE9. I got no errors, the backup worked like a charm, so it seemed. When I got my computer up and running again, I went to restore from hard drive and it specificaly looked a tally file (*.tly). That file wasn't created anywhere in the directory where the photoshop restore was saved. ALL my photos are in that directory, as well as thousands of xml files but no tly files. So I can't restore the photos to their original location, with names, and most importantly, tags. Why are the backup and restore features not consistent in their implementation and is there any way to restore the fiels now? Aside from the hard way that is.
I am sorry if this question has been asked in another forum, I'm not blog and forum savy enough to find the answer if it has already been asked. I searched for the keywords tally and tly and couldn't find any so I'm assuming this has not been asked. Please help.
Thanks,
Engineer1279
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Windows 7, 64 bit system.