Reinstalling my seldom used X6 on new computers and missing stuff like Catalogs

[Greg_B]

I can't remember why I decided to upgrade to CA from Home Designer Pro 2012 a dozen years ago but think it was the catalogs and the ability to print on large format printers, which I have at work for SolidWorks. My CAD computer at home & work were high end at the time due to SolidWorks, so were later upgraded in place to Win10. Now replaced by newer computers with Win11 and CA x6 installed. All of the 3D items I created in Sketchup and imported are in the plans and I can duplicate them or move them, but they aren't in my User Catalog on a new plan and all the Core Catalogs, Bonus Catalogs, and Manufacturer's Catalogs are empty. 

CA seems to have the core catalogs available only back to x7. I have lots of backups of the previous computer but not sure about backups of the files to get this back to operational. Looks like they put a lot of this in C:\Program Files\....... and C:\ProgramData\...., areas not normally backed up, but I probably have them somewhere.

I use this rarely, mostly looking at existing files and rearranging items to fit, which is why I didn't realize I didn't have a lot of what I needed for a few years. Every few years, I need to create new plans, this time when moving a business. I had to create a lot of commercial building items that are very different from the house items in CA.

I can't find any .CALIB files to import again and the user catalog has source files all over the place. 

Any help greatly appreciated. 

Edited to add: Interesting, it posted my sig from a dozen years ago and I can't see how to change that. 

Edited yesterday at 02:31 AM by Greg_B

[DBCooper]

Do you still have the disks for X6?  I can't remember if the core catalogs came on the disk or not but you should try there first  If not, then you might want to try tech support.  Just because they are not listed here:  https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-02899/manually-installing-core-catalogs-for-chief-architect-premier.html, they might still be available and they might be able to send you link.