Post by BuckSkin on Sept 21, 2016 5:16:31 GMT
I probably should have done this ages ago.
Our organizer catalog, with some 43 thousand and some odd images, had slowed to a creepy crawl; doing the simplest task had become an act in frustration; it would take forever to load a few images and create the thumbnails.
I got the bright idea to do a catalog "repair" and "optimize"; this took the better part of a night and seemed to actually make things worse.
While looking for something else, I stumbled upon this :
don26812.wordpress.com/2015/02/27/why-how-i-retired-my-photoshop-elements-catalog/
After reading the article, a light came on in my skull and I set to work creating a new catalog.
I saved the key-word-tags and such to a file and loaded them into the new catalog.
I named the new catalog "NEW_ September 2016 and added the 750 and some odd images that my wife has taken since September 1st. (I have been using a different computer the last few months, thus a different organizer/catalog which I have not as yet added a single file to, as I am developing a new plan of action and want to start it on a clean slate.)
The difference is amazing !!!
Response is almost instantaneous !!!
This is the same not-so-quick desk-top, with the same Elements 7, and the same organizer, that had gotten so draggy that it was almost not worth fooling with.
All I did was, in that same old organizer, click "file" > catalog > new; and, the difference is like daylight and dark.
I know it is going to be a bit inconvenient, having to jump back and forth between catalogs; but, I intend to little-by-little introduce the more important stuff into the new catalog.
I don't believe it was the sheer number of images that were slowing things down, so much as plain old age that was affecting the effectiveness of the catalog.
So, if your organizer is beginning to drag it's feet, maybe what you need is a fresh catalog.
While playing around with this, I did discover another bit of exciting news; the organizer will communicate with our other computers via the network; I can do File > get photos > "from files and folders" and navigate to anywhere on our network.
Now, if I could just figure out how to get all of the network computers to communicate with a single catalog.
Thanks for reading; I hope this proves useful to someone else.
Our organizer catalog, with some 43 thousand and some odd images, had slowed to a creepy crawl; doing the simplest task had become an act in frustration; it would take forever to load a few images and create the thumbnails.
I got the bright idea to do a catalog "repair" and "optimize"; this took the better part of a night and seemed to actually make things worse.
While looking for something else, I stumbled upon this :
don26812.wordpress.com/2015/02/27/why-how-i-retired-my-photoshop-elements-catalog/
After reading the article, a light came on in my skull and I set to work creating a new catalog.
I saved the key-word-tags and such to a file and loaded them into the new catalog.
I named the new catalog "NEW_ September 2016 and added the 750 and some odd images that my wife has taken since September 1st. (I have been using a different computer the last few months, thus a different organizer/catalog which I have not as yet added a single file to, as I am developing a new plan of action and want to start it on a clean slate.)
The difference is amazing !!!
Response is almost instantaneous !!!
This is the same not-so-quick desk-top, with the same Elements 7, and the same organizer, that had gotten so draggy that it was almost not worth fooling with.
All I did was, in that same old organizer, click "file" > catalog > new; and, the difference is like daylight and dark.
I know it is going to be a bit inconvenient, having to jump back and forth between catalogs; but, I intend to little-by-little introduce the more important stuff into the new catalog.
I don't believe it was the sheer number of images that were slowing things down, so much as plain old age that was affecting the effectiveness of the catalog.
So, if your organizer is beginning to drag it's feet, maybe what you need is a fresh catalog.
While playing around with this, I did discover another bit of exciting news; the organizer will communicate with our other computers via the network; I can do File > get photos > "from files and folders" and navigate to anywhere on our network.
Now, if I could just figure out how to get all of the network computers to communicate with a single catalog.
Thanks for reading; I hope this proves useful to someone else.