Change in Organizer photo import functions?

I have a set of master files, each containing a fairly high number of subfiles in a fixed order. Each subfile contains a number of photos, also in a rigidly fixed order. The whole thing is a botanical archive. Formerly I used Organizer with great success: all subfiles with their photos appeared in the catalog in exactly the right order. Now something bad has happened, there is no more a division of the content of a masterfile into subfiles and all photos under a master file appear in a hopelessly mixed order. Worst of all, all my old catalogs have also been corrupted. Can anybody help me, or am I forced to conclude that the Organizer has suddenly become useless for my purposes?
Kurt N.

We had better stop this discussion now, Organizer remains useless to me. The hard facts are as follows. I had been using PSE 7 for several years, and everything worked beautifully. The program presented all my photos arranged in their fixed order within the order of the folders. Suddenly, one day last Marsh, Organizer went crazy. I uninstalled the thing and installed it again. Same situation, it didn´t work. I thought this was a clever way to force me to aquire PSE 11, so I did just that. Nothing improved on the Organizer side (Editor seems to be a bit better than in 7, though).
Of course I can make a slide show out of my folders, but not with PSE. The other alternatives seem to have one big drawback: I cannot find a way to make the frames advance one at a time, just by left-clicking. They advance now automatically with some fixed interval, and this does not enable me to give more attention to certain frames than to others. In the old Organizer I could achieve exactly what I wanted.
hetvagg

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