PSE 9 bugs unresolved

So I have to wonder.  I've been using Photoshop on the Mac in some form since version 2.x.  Like many, I don't need the full version these days for my home use so I've been buying PSE for the past few years.  Version 9 on the Mac is the most bug-ridden version I've ever seen before.  And it's clunky as hell.  They must be porting it from Windows.
I reported a Preferences bug some weeks ago, setting the "Always Append file extension" doesn't work.  Set it, but it still saves with an upper case extension.  Go back to preferences and the setting is back to default.  This crap drives me nuts.  How can a company break something as basic a preference settings.  My version is up to date.  Still waiting for a fix. I may have to go back to version 6, which is only marginally better.  9 sucks.
I also own a CS5 suite.  Can't say I'm impressed at all with how clunky and slow it performs, and lots of bugs there, too.  Adobe, you've dropped the ball big time.
Phil

I'm trying to use the advertised feature to help me narrow down issues with photos.  I've already got too many of them.  I will take any help from an automatic tool by showing potential issues with photos.  I can be the final judge if a photo is out of focus or is too dark.  My plan is to filter by Blur for example.  Then I can quickly assess all photos for this and remove photos that are clearly not desirable.
Many of the issues pointed out by John Rellis can be resolved by making your media read-only.
The large amount of CPU times issue point out by John looks like was resolved in PsE/PrE 9 by the new 'Run Analyzer only when System is idle".
I also use this for videos.  The scene detect is great and helps me pick out clips as I am assembling my videos.
I had the impression that Adobe cleaned up some of the auto-analysis features with PrE 9 so that more people could take advantage of it, like I would like to.

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    Giving a map location to a tag assigned to 2000 photos makes assigning any keyword tag to a photo very slow (see above).    Searching on keyword tags takes 15 seconds, and a Show All takes 15 seconds.
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    Major Problems
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    Metadata
    Major Problems
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    Edit > Adjust Date and Time doesn’t properly handle US Daylight Savings Time when setting date/times many decades ago, e.g. October 5, 1961 12:00 PM.
    In Thumbnail View, the Organizer incorrectly orders files that have unknown time. For example, it will show a file dated 12/25/1976 8:00 PM PST after a file dated 12/26/1976 (unknown time) on a computer in time zone PST.
    If you set a file's date/time fields to all unknown with Edit > Adjust Date And Time, the value of EXIF:DateTimeOriginal isn't cleared by File > Write Keyword Tag.
    The File > Write Keyword Tag command doesn’t create or update .XMP sidecars for Nikon D300 or D80 .NEF raw files (but it does for Canon CR2 raw files).
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    File > Write Keyword Tags and Properties fails to write the map location (GPS coordinates) of TIFFs (tested with TIFFs produced by the PSE Editor and the Nikon Coolscan V, Nikon Coolscan 5000, and Epson 4490 scanners).
    File > Write Keyword Tags doesn’t write the map location (GPS coordinates) into the .xmp sidecar files of Nikon D80 or Canon G9 raw photos.
    [N] The Organizer ignores correctly formatted EXIF GPS locations in some files that many other programs can read without trouble; this may be because the EXIF is encoded in little-endian byte order.
    Minor Problems
    [N] Deselecting the option Use “Last Modified” Date If EXIF Date Is Not Found does not work – the last-modified date is always used for an imported file that doesn’t contain an EXIF date.
    The Properties – Metadata window shows the wrong value for Date Time Original when the month, day, or time is unknown.
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    When you save an edited photo as a new file but not in a version set, the edited version picks up the date/time and caption of the original but not the keyword tags, star rating, or notes.
    With the Import EXIF Caption option turned off, captions pre-existing in a file’s EXIF:ImageDescription metadata field reappear in the Organizer after invoking the Full Editor.
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    Using the Keyword Tags pane, you can no longer exclude a parent category from a search, e.g. exclude all photos tagged with any tag in the People category.
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    Searching with date ranges doesn’t properly handle time “unknown”.
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    Copying a paragraph from Microsoft Word and pasting it into the Notes field of a keyword tag causes some of the spaces between words to be deleted.
    Ctrl-A to select all text doesn’t work in the text fields of the Properties window.
    Interestingly, you can use ctrl-A in the text fields of the full-screen mode Properties window.
    In the full Editor, if at least one open photo is minimized to the Project Bin, Ctrl-Tab no longer cycles through the open windows.
    Dialogs in the Editor sometimes bounce back when you try to move them.
    Dates are shown by Display > Import Batch as 2\20\2008 rather than 2/20/2008.
    In Create > Slide Show > Slide Show Preferences dialog, you can't use backspace or delete to clear the text in the Static and Transition Duration fields -- you need to select the text and then type over the selection (non-standard Windows behavior).
    Escape doesn’t close the full-screen-mode Properties dialog.
    You can’t use the Windows Explorer Tile command to tile the PSE Organizer and Editor windows.
    The Editor window can’t be resized the standard Windows way by grabbing any edge, just the lower-right corner.
    Alt doesn’t underline the shortcut letters of top-level menu items in the Full Editor (but it does in the Organizer).
    The width of the Editor's Palette Bin can't be adjusted by dragging the left edge, as you can with all the other similar panes (Project Bin, Organizer Bin, Map View).
    Slide Shows
    Major Problems
    The duration of a video clip included in a Slide Show is set to the default duration, not the length of the video clip, and right-click Edit Duration doesn’t change the clip’s duration.
    For video clips, PSE 7 doesn’t enable the command to change the duration as it does for photos. But you can work around this by using Add Media > Photos And Videos From Folder to add the clip to the show.
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    Editor
    Minor Problems
    [N] The Editor crashes if you invoke Quick Fix and use just one Touch Up tool (e.g. Whiten Teeth) and then save the file (but your changes are correctly saved).
    The File > Save For Web command doesn’t remember the last settings (e.g. file format and quality) after your restart the Editor.
    For a workaround, see http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/photoshopelements-6-7-faq.htm#_Allow_Save_For.

    Just kidding.    But, are you going to give us a bug comparison between 7 and 8 ?   I will probably sit version 8 out and get 9 next year.  Thanks for the list!
    Juergen

  • Why am I getting an "Activation Error" message in PSE 10?  Bug in program??

    A little over 6 months ago, my desktop bit the dust.  I set up a new laptop, and loaded PSE 10 onto it.  I have been using it since then.  Today, I downloaded some photos from my SD card into PSE 10, worked fine.  I then opened Editor, and the screen popped up with a big box saying "Activation Limit reached for Photoshop Elements 10."  It also says "This serial number has already been activated on two computers".  Well, that is probably true ... the desktop that bit the dust, and the one I'm on now where the message showed up.  I "re-tried" and it repeated the message.  It tells me that if I click on "Remind me later", my software will stop working in 30 days.
    What the hell is going on here?  If Adobe allows activation on two computers, then I shouldn't have a problem because this did NOT happen because I'm trying to install anything ... I only tried to open Editor on the laptop I've been using for over 6 months!  If it doesn't allow 2 computers, what do I do?  I can't "de-activate" the one on my desktop since that computer is toast.  But if that is the case, why is this just showing up NOW?  It should have happened earlier, no?
    I think there is some sort of bug in PSE 10 that hasn't been addressed ... or hasn't been addressed on my system.  How do I resolve this?  If it matters, I am using Windows 7, 64 bit, 8 GB RAM,

    It's just part of the wonderful world of activation. Just go here:
    http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/policy-pricing/activation-deactivation-products.html
    and start a chat session (the chat window doesn't always appear, but it usually does), and they'll sort it out for you.

  • Bugs Ive Encountered In PSE 7

    Here are all the reproducible bugs Ive encountered in PSE 7. Problems added since my last posting on 10/5/08 are marked [N]. Because of limitations of the forum, this list is split across several messages.
    Ive reported all of these problems to Adobe. Almost all of them are in the Organizer. Based on all the reports on the forums, it appears that the Editor has far fewer problems than the Organizer. Perhaps thats because the Editor shares the same code with the professional Photoshop, while the Organizer appears to be an orphaned consumer product whose development Adobe has moved offshore.
    For reference, my computer is a midrange Vista laptop with a dual-core 1.8 GHz processor, 3 GB of memory, and a 7200 RPM disk (the same speed as desktop disks).
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    Major Problems
    [N] File > Backup/Restore Catalog doesnt backup and restore audio in slide shows.
    [N] Using Folder Location view to move a folder containing hidden files imported in the catalog will silently fail to move the hidden files and will leave the unhidden files disconnected in the catalog.
    [N] When converting a previous-version catalog whose photos are stored inside the catalog folder, as occurs when youve previously used File > Restore Catalog with New Location, PSE 7 needlessly copies all those photos. If you have a very large catalog, this will waste huge amounts of disk space; and if there isnt enough disk space to do the copy, the conversion will fail instantly with a generic non-explanatory error message.
    [N] After reconnecting a file on a network drive, PSE will let you import the file a second time, failing to recognize it as a duplicate. The catalog is left in an inconsistent state, with two entries in the volume table for the network drive, one upper case and one lower case.
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