E 9 REMOVING PHOTOS FROM HARD AND E9 SOFTWARE

Question

I have Elements 9.  When I upload from a SD card to Elements 9 and then after review want to delete many unwanted photos I click right click on the highlighted pictures, [most of the time, several hundred photos at once] and click on "Delete from Catalog..." and then check "Also delete selected item(s) from hard drive" it takes an hour or more to delete the selected items or it just crashes.  It should be noted that if I "Delete from Catalog..." without checking the box "Also delete selected item(s) from hard drive" the process goes very quickly, within 60 seconds.  BUT I must develop a written list on a sheet of paper the items that I still must now delete from my hard drive and go into "My Computer", find the folder and then delete using my written list.  AND this also is very fast.  But what a pain to write down that many pic numbers [usually between 500 and 1600] to get the job done.  My PC has 1 terabit storage, 8 gig memory (ram), and GeForce GTS450.  Can you give some ideas as to where/how to fix?  Where to start looking would really help. Like could it be Elements 9, ram, the GeForce, or other, or a combination of something. Thanks t64425

Answer 1

Have a look at that post of mine in the Adobe feedback forum:
Elements 11 or 12 organizer : unable to delete a big number of files
I must say that in my case, not checking the deletion on the drive does not help.
Since that post, I have done a successful test in deleting 1100 items from a catalog of 53 000 items with PSE13 on a Win7 64 bits PC with 9 GB RAM. I believe the 64 bits option helps a lot, but the main factor is the amount of available memory. The deletion is very slow but in the worst case I get a message that the transaction has been aborted and I am back to the initial situation.