Organizer in PSE 11 hangs on catalog converted from PSE8

I just installed PSE 11 and converted my catalog from PSE 8.  I have over 50,000 images in the catalog.  Immediately the Organizer starts on the people recognition (I had all Auto-Analyze turned off in PSE8).  I am able to cancel the People Recognition but before I can do anything else (only a couple of seconds) , some other process automatically starts--the hourglass cursor appears. Task Manager states that the Organizer is not responding so it is evidently going into some long process of analyzing data.    I  have the pictures all tagged (most with multiple tags) and am not interested in having Organizer identify them.   I am running on Windows 7.    What can I do -- just let the Orgnizer run?  I have let it run for about 90 minutes with no response-- and no idea what it is doing.
Message was edited by: Jha28

okay, I was able to retrieve all the thumbnails - but the albums that I had created are no longer listed as albums -- guess it doesn't matter but it's very confusing to me -- and I'm not a mac or computer illiterate person - I've used PSE 8 for years and that seemed more intuitive to me!!  I guess I need to get a book -- any suggestions on one that does a step by step?  maybe I need one of those PSE 11 for dummies!!

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