Elements Organizer Freezing

In Elements 10 Organizer, when I go to Edit > Preferences then select any of the sub menu items the program freezes and I have to Ctrl-Alt-Delete to escape. The program appears to function in all other respects apart from this. I had a go with the extensive Adobe help system but got hopelessly lost! Can anybody point me in the right direction please?

Re-set the Preferences by deleting (or re-naming) this file (enable viewing hidden files in Windows Explorer to see it):
"C:\Users\<your username>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Elements Organizer\10.0\Organizer\psa.prf"
When you start Organizer, the Preferences file will be re-built.
Ken

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Elements 8 Organizer freezing

I have about 2 GB loaded into my organizer and every time I open the organizer it freezes up and the only way I can get out of it is closing it through the task manager. I have gotten it to stay open long enough to turn off the auto people recognition...I have deleted the cache, I have updated teh liscense info.
What else can I do to get the organizer to work? The editor is working perfectly, as long as I don't want to get my files from the organizer I can use the program just fine.
Any help would be appreciated.
Is this some sort of problem with internet explorer 8...or just a bug in PSE 8?
THank you
Amanda

Problem is the link I need for clearing the organizers preferences is unavilable so I don't know how to do that.
Adobe accidentally deleted the their tech notes for troubleshooting PSE 8 Organizer issues. An employee posted here recently saying they would fix it, but it hasn't been yet.
To delete the PSE 8 Organizer preferences on XP, I think you delete this file:
C:\Users\your-user-name\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Elements Organizer\8.0\Organizer\psa.prf
If that doesn't help, continue with the next steps. If you get to "Try Adobe's generic troubleshooting", that also refers to the deleted tech note. You can use the PSE 7 on XP troubleshooting instead, which is similar:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/404/kb404989.html
You may have to change some file references from "7.0" to "8.0".
Also I have about 8500 images in my organizer right now for digital scrapbooking. Not sure if that is causing a problem too.
That's a relatively small catalog, and the Organizer should handle it just fine.

Photoshop elements 11 freezes when I try to back up the catalogue. i get a message "Please wait while Elements Organizer prepares for backup". what do i do?

Photoshop elements 11 freezes when I try to back up the catalogue. i get a message "Please wait while Elements Organizer prepares for backup". what do i do?

Thank you for responding. Nothing actually worked! After reading the posts online, I called Apple. They indicated they have seen problems with some software after their upgrades. The technician was able to fix the problem on my computer remotely, but I have no clue what he did! But, it was definitely related to their recent upgrade to my computer.

Elements organizer 11 freezes? any suggestions?

elements organizer 11 properities freezes. Any suggestions?

Start PSE to get to the Welcome screen.
Hold down the Ctrl + Shift keys and click Organizer. Keep holding down the keys until you see the Catalog window.
Select your catalog and click Repair. Select “repair anyway” even if PSE doesn’t find problems.
Then for good measure, click Optimize.
If repairing resolves your issue then fine else repeat the above steps, but click New to create a new catalog. If you’re able to import photos into the new catalog and the Organizer works fine, then problem can be old catalog.
Check for Task Manager and end the "ElementsAutoAnalyzer.exe" file and then try.
- Try launching Organizer directly from the exe with Admin rights.
Thanks

Problems with Photoshop Elements 11 freezing up

I recently upgraded from Elements 9 to Elements 11. Now when I work in the Organizer or Editor the program frequently freezes up and then displays the message "program not responding". If I wait long enough - several minutes - it begins to run again. I never had this problem with Elements 9

My primary disk when i open elements 11 for all the time working, mouse cursor lagging and swaping. All my operation on Photoshop Elements is not instantly.
I install yesterday fresh Windows 7 with all updates of corse. Problem persist.
This is my log from PSE:
Wersja Adobe Photoshop Elements: 11.0 (11.0 (20120922.r.32287)) x32
System operacyjny: Windows 7 64 bity
Wersja: 6.1 Service Pack 1
Architektura systemu: Intel rodzina CPU:6, Model:10, Stopień:5 z MMX Liczba całkowita SSE, SSE FP, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2
Fizyczny licznik procesora: 8
Szybkość procesora: 2672 MHz
Wbudowana pamięć: 12279 MB
Wolna pamięć: 8991 MB
Pamięć dostępna dla programu Photoshop Elements: 3255 MB
Pamięć używana przez program Photoshop Elements: 71 %
Rozmiar płytki obrazu: 128K
Poziomy pamięci podręcznej obrazu: 6
Monitor: 2
Granice ekranu:= góra: 0, lewa strona: -1920, dół: 1080, prawa strona: 0
Monitor: 1
Granice ekranu:= góra: 0, lewa strona: 0, dół: 1200, prawa strona: 1920
Numer karty wideo: 1
Karta wideo: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570
Wersja sterownika: 9.18.13.1106
Data sterownika: 20130118000000.000000-000
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Tryb wideo: 1920 x 1200 x 4294967296 colors
Podpis karty wideo: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570
Pamięć karty wideo: 1280 MB
Folder aplikacji: C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Photoshop Elements 11\
Tymczasowa ścieżka pliku: C:\Users\SOBTAI~1\AppData\Local\Temp\
Magazyn programu Photoshop Elements ma we/wy asynchroniczne włączony
Dyski magazynujące:
C:\, 244,1G, 189,0G wolne
Wymagany folder wtyczek: C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Photoshop Elements 11\Required\
Podstawowy folder wtyczek: C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Photoshop Elements 11\Plug-Ins\
Dodatkowy folder wtyczek: nie ustawiony
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FAQ: What is Auto-Analysis, or Why does Organizer freeze?

What is the Auto-Analyzer?
The Elements Organizer has the ability to scan your videos and look for certain characteristics that may help you choose what will work best for you projects in Premiere Elements. This Auto-Analysis runs in the background of your system, scanning the video files in your catalog and applying Smart Tags when it finds certain criteria have been met. There are over 50 Smart Tags that can be applied, including whether the footage is blurry, includes a zoom or pan, has people's faces, etc. Additionally, it will break up your video up into individual scenes. It will also check your image files for people’s faces so you can identify in which pictures your friends and family appear.
     Smart Tags
While Auto-Analysis can be very useful for digging through your footage and breaking it down into more digestible bits, video files can be very large. Thus the system resources needed to analyze some video files can cause the rest of your system to perform slowly. Additionally, poor compression or incompatible codecs within the video files can cause errors with the Auto-Analyzer.
How do I customize Auto-Analysis?
The Auto-Analyzer can have its behavior modified in the Organizer Preferences (Mac OS: Adobe Elements [Version] Organizer > Preferences, Windows: Edit > Preferences > Media Analysis). Pictured here:
     The Auto-Analysis Preferences
How do I turn off Auto-Analysis?
To completely disable the Auto-Analyzer, uncheck all of the options in the Media Analysis Preferences.
What if Elements Organizer is crashing or freezing?
If Auto-Analysis is really struggling with your files, it may cause the Elements Organizer to crash. And the crash may occur faster than you can get to the Preferences to disable it. In these cases, here are the steps you can follow to disable the Auto-Analyzer.
While Launching the Elements Organizer (click “Organize” on the Welcome Screen), hold down the Shift key.
NOTE: You have to perform this step quickly.
If you get the timing right, the Catalog Manager will appear before the Organizer opens. The Catalog Manager is the same dialog you see when you go to File > Catalog from within the Organizer.
In the Catalog Manager, click the New button. You may get a warning about your Backup/Synchronization settings. Just click OK.
Give the new catalog a name (it doesn’t matter what it is, just something you can identify later, such as “Test”). Click OK.
The Elements Organizer will launch with this new, blank catalog. But don’t worry, all of your files are still safe.
Go to the Media Analysis settings in Preferences and uncheck all options.
Go to File > Catalog and in the Catalog Manager, select your original catalog from the list (default name is “My Catalog”) and click Open.
     The Catalog Manager
If these steps do not address your Elements Organizer crashing or freezing issues, then you are dealing with a problem that doesn’t involve the Auto-Analyzer.
What if Auto-Analyzer is having trouble in Elements Organizer but I still would like to scan some files?
If you’ve had to disable Auto-Analysis because of some trouble with certain files, but you’d like Auto-Analyze other files, you can do so. Simply select the files you would like analyzed and go to Edit > Run Auto-Analyzer. This will just scan the files you have selected.
Why won’t Auto-Analysis work with my files?
As previously mentioned, Auto-Analysis may have issues with the way your video files have been compressed. Additionally, there is a file size limitation to what can be analyzed. The upper limit is about 4000 x 4000 pixels, or around 15.6 megapixels. While the Organizer will import much larger files and even generate thumbnails for them, the Auto-Analyzer will not read them. They will merely be skipped over. If you try to analyze a single file of such large size, you will be informed of this skipping due to potential errors.
     Media skipped warning message

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Elements Organizer 10 terminates after a few seconds, PC crashes after a few minutes

A couple of weeks ago, I installed Photoshop+Premiere Elements from the Adobe online store. Within a couple of days, I noticed that Elements organizer would crash within a minute of starting, sometime withing a few seconds.
Also, even when I wasn't running Adobe, my PC would freeze after a few minutes with the HDD light solidly on. My PC had never crashed before this installation.
After a little sleuthing using task manager, I found that all the memory in my system (4GB) gets suddenly hogged (within seconds) by the "Elements Organizer" process (3GB) ... I found the service correspponding to this process, "Adobe Active File Monitor v10", stopped it and set autostart to manual. My PC no longer crashes.
I think Adobe needs to look into this one - it has all the hallmarks of a nasty memory leak.
A couple of possible clues as to why certain systems don't take well to this service:
- I have a few very large video clips (2hours+) on my PC
- I installed trial products like light room, CS5 before settling on Photoshop+Premiere Elements - could leftovers after uninstalling cause conflicts?
- I have other video editors on my system that I don't use, like Corel VideoStudio and Sony Vegas.
Thoughts?

Corrections - the process name is ElementsAutoAnalyzer.exe - and unfortunately, the Adobe Active File Monitor v10 does not spawn ElementsAutoAnalyzer.exe.
I disabled it by renaming it - it was under:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Elements 10 Organizer\CAHeadless
I see from google that a lot of people have this problem...

Elements Organizer Menu Off Screen Mac OS X

Photoshop elements organizer was loading and I was changing the size of the window. The program was kind of freezing and the top of the window got dragged off screen. Nothing I have tried has gotten the window to its regular size. I have tried changing the computers resolution, closing the program, reopening it, and restarting the computer. I don't have the option of using the window > zoom. Has anyone had this problem and solved it?
Thanks!

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FAQ: My files are missing from Elements Organizer, or How to reconnect your images?

What is Elements Organizer?
The Elements Organizer can be used to arrange, codify, systemize, group, and classify your media. When you import your images and video into the Orgnizer, you are adding information about your files to a catalog. Your files remain on your hard drive where they were, unless you are importing them from a camera, in which case the files are copied to your hard drive to a location of your choosing.
What is an Elements Organizer catalog?
The catalog is a database that stores information about the files you've imported into Elements Organizer. When importing a file, the first thing Organizer does is collect the file's name and location on the hard drive. If the file has any attached compatible metadata, such as keyword tags, these are imported as well. You can use multiple catalogs and yourr catalogs can be carried forward from version to version.
Why does Elements Organizer say my files are missing?
Since the catalog database only stores information about your file, and not the file itself, if any of that information is changed outside of Elements Organizer, the connection to the file is lost. There are three ways this can happen: the file name is changed, the file location is changed, or the file has been deleted. If you need to rename, move, or delete a file, you can do so within the Elements Organizer, and then the connection is not lost.
What is Reconnecting?
When a file has been renamed, moved, or deleted, the catalog database needs to be updated with that new information. The Reconnection process allows you to point out a file's new name, it's new location, or to delete the database entry on your file if the file no longer exists on your hard drive.
Where can I learn more?
Managing Files in Elements Organizer
Get photos from files and folders
Importing photos from a digital camera
Import photos from a previous version
Moving files
Hiding and deleting photos
Managing Catalogs in Elements Organizer
Use Backup, Restore to move catalog | Organizer | Elements 6 or later
Troubleshoot catalog backup, upgrade | Organizer | Elements 6 or later
Freeze when you repair a catalog | Organizer | Elements 6 and later
Reconnecting Media in Elements Organizer
Reconnect missing files | Photoshop Elements | Windows
Can't edit, open, reconnect photos or media | Incorrect drive letter | Elements 6 or later Organizer | Windows

Anything besides reconnecting all the files, such as switching the drive letter (if that is even possible)?
The easiest way to fix this is to change the drive letter. Here are instructions for Windows 7: http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windows7/ht/change-drive-letters-windows-7.htm
To prevent this from happening again, you can change the drive to some very high letter, like X:, and then it should remain constant. In Lightroom, right-click on the top level folder ,and select Find Missing Folder, and then point it to your X: drive.
I know I can "Import---Add to catalog" all the photos from my external hard drive back into the catalog but I do have a question:
I won't address your question specifically, since re-importing is a very bad idea. A very bad idea. You will lose information that is not in the sidecar files, such as collection members, edit history, flags, virtual copies, stacks and a few other things. Just don't go there. Change the drive letters, as I explained.

Elements Organizer does not install when reinstalling PSE10

I have a problem that I cannot seem to resolve. Previously Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 had been running flawlessly on my computer and was easily opened by clicking the desktop icon which had a "C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Elements 10 Organizer\Photoshop Elements 10.0.exe" target. After uninstalling and reinstalling Photoshop Elements 10, when I click on the Desktop icon to start the application, I get a dialog box that says "The item 'Photoshop Elements 10.0.exe' that this shortcut refers to has been changed or moved so this shortcut will no longer work properly". If I right click the Photoshop Elements 10 desktop icon and check properties, the Target says "C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Elements 10 Organizer\Photoshop Elements 10.0.exe". When I open Explorer and navigate to where the target says the application file should be, the "Elements 10 Organizer" directory does not exist. The only directory that does exist is the "Photoshop Elements 10" directory and it contains the 'PhotoshopElementsEditor.exe'. Yes if I click on that file the Editor opens, however when I try to load the Organizer workspace once the editor is open, it does not load because the entire folder and application is missing. I even tried searching the entire C-Drive to find the Photoshop Elements 10.0.exe file but it was nowhere to be found.
To be specific, I had PSE8, PSE9, and PSE10 installed on my 64-bit Windows 7 Professional w/SP1 computer. I decided to uninstall PSE8 & 9 because I had just purchased PSE12 and wanted to make room for the PSE12 installation. When I tried to first uninstall PSE8, the uninstaller stopped with the warning that PSE8 was installed in the same directory as PSE10. The uninstall then terminated when I clicked on OK. Next tried to uninstall PSE9 and received the same warning and uninstaller termination. The same thing happened when I tried to uninstall PSE10. Faced with the situation that all three products were installed in the same directory and would not uninstall individually, I found it necessary to uninstall all three applications manually according to the directions on the Adobe's knowledgebase.
To uninstall PSE8, PSE9, & PSE10, first thing I did was create a system restore point which is something I always do just in case something goes wrong. Then starting with PSE8, I first printed out the Photoshop Elements Help "Manually remove Photoshop Elements 8 | Windows that I found at http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/826/cpsid_82673.html. Subsequently I printed out the directions for each product, PSE8, PSE9, and PSE10, are all on the Adobe website. Next I followed the directions contained in each article except for running the product uninstaller as I mentioned above and removed all three applications then rebooted my machine.
Next I reinstalled PSE10 and tried to open it only to find that it did not fully install especially the Elements Organizer. As mentioned you can open the Editor by going directly to the executable file however you cannot access the Organizer because it did not install and cannot be found anywhere on the computer. I have uninstalled and reinstalled PSE10 five time now each time using the product Uninstaller plus the "Manually remove PSE10" directions and I still cannot get the Elements Organizer to install.
My question is does Adobe have a utility that can be run after manually installing a specific product that would find registry entries that were not removed after completing the manual removal process? The problem I see is the manual removal process which shows possible registry entries to remove manually is built on the assumption that you were able to run the Uninstaller which is not the case with my problem.
Secondly does anyone have any suggestions on how to install both the PSE10 Organizer and Editor?

I believe I found a solution but I need help in changing some of the parameters to reflect for a United States program install.
If you go to "Elements 10 Organizer is not installed [SOLUTION]" at http://forums.adobe.com/message/4745941 you will note the Poster says it is possible to force the install of Elements Organizer 10 by using the command line:
msiexec /i "E:\Adobe Photoshop Elements 10\ElementsOrganizer\Elements 10 Organizer.msi" TRANSFORMS=1031.mst ELEMENTS_DE_DE=1 ORGANIZER_DE_DE=1 STARTWATCHSERVICE=1 SUPPRESSREBOOT=0 NOT_STANDALONE=1 /l*v "C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Temp\OrganizerInstall.log".
I found that the above command line input does in fact start the setup for the PSE10 "Elements Organizer" Installer except it is in a language other than English.
Is there anyone familiar enough with coding and command line prompts to change whatever paramenters are necessary to have the installer run in English.
Hopefully there are some Adobe Staff monitoring this message that can answer the question for me.
Message was edited by: DAllenJ2215

How can I import photos from iPhoto '09 to Elements Organizer 10 while keeping the tags attached?

I have spent a ridiculously long time tagging photos in my iPhotos but I would now like to transfer all my photos to Elements Organizer and preserve all the work I had done.
From Adobe's help website (http://help.adobe.com/en_US/elementsorganizer/using/WS73c05ee9864270ea-417df45c129593bfa05 -8000.html) it says I can import the tags along with the photos but does not explain how:
"Elements Organizer 10 supports importing photos, along with their associated captions, tags, and ratings, from iPhoto. You also have the option to import information such as events and albums to maintain the organization of your library"
When I follow the steps outlined on the website my photos are imported but there are no tags attached to them. I am particularly interested in keeping my facial tags but I suppose it would be useful to know how to keep other keyword tags and ratings as well.
There was a previous question put out on the forums similar to this but it was unresolved and the person decided to just leave everything in iPhoto. I really would prefer to transfer all my photos to Elements Organizer. I don't like the way iPhoto organizes photos but I had to deal with it for several years before I bought Elements Photoshop with built-in Organizer.
Please Please help!
Many thanks
D.M.

You don't import one library to another. Just copy the library from the iBook to the Pictures folder on shout new MacBook Pro. If you have another library already on the MBP rename it so you don't overwrite it with the old library.
Launch iPhoto with the Option key held down and select the newly copied library and let iPhoto convert it to the new version.
Do you have photos in the library on the new MacBook Pro that you want to combine with the older library?

How to export photos from Elements Organizer on Mac?

I saw someone asked the same question and it seemed not to be possible with the Mac version. Surely this can't be possible as this must be one of the single most important functions in an Archving system.

rugfoot wrote:
The problem is I can't move them to a new folder. If I could I wouldn't have the export problem. I just dragging and dropping but it doesn't work. I have made a selection (15) of photos in Elements Organizer but I can't identify which ones they are (from 300) in the Mac Finder app (= Windows Explorer).
Sorry, I can't test that on a Mac, but I thought that 'Windows only' features would be stated on the Adobe pdf help file, and moving file is not mentionned as Windows only, whereas 'export' is clearly stated as Windows only.
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/elementsorganizer/using/elementsorganizer_10_help.pdf
Chapter 7 - Move files in a catalog
Edit,
By the way, the very useful faq list in the right panel of this forum links to PSE9, not PSE10 for the location of the guides.

What is new in Photoshop elements organizer

Are there any changes to the photoshop elements organizer from version 8 to 9

I agree. In some ways it is a real step backward. I would not recommend "upgrading" to
PSE9 based on one day of working with it. Lost the ability to see all files in folder view and it is
EXTREMELY SLOW.
I really wish I hadn't changed to PSE9 and converted my catalog, which it didn't fully convert properly.
Stay away from this upgrade!

How do I uninstall Elements Organizer while keeping Elements.

Organizer has messed up the alphabetical sorting of my thousands of files even while viewing them with Picasa viewer.
This is truly unbelievable.
So far, the thousands of Google hits concerning uninstalling Organizer have returned either asinine replies or Rube Goldberg contraptions.
I'm a newbie in Elements/Organizer after deciding to go the paid way instead of using GIMP/Picasa and other freebies for I don't know how long..
What a disapointment! What a let-down!

You can't uninstall the organizer and keep the editor, but you don't have to use the organizer. Many people don't. Just use file>open in the editor instead.

Window 8.1 is not allowing Elements Organizer 11 to import pictures from SD card into Organizer

After installing Windows 8.1, I am no longer able to import pictures from SD card into Organizer as Elements simply stops working after Import from Card reader is selected. Obviously I am shutdown from importing pictures.

Windows 8.1 is not allowing Elements Organizer 11 to import pictures from SD Card in card reader into Elements Organizer. The Elements Program goes to a blue circle and the program times out.
I have:
Tried different SD cards
Tried different card readers,
I can import off files or folders. However card reader does not show up on this menu within Elements.
There is obviously some workaround that could be contemplated BUT Elements Organizer cannot import from SD card in card reader and this is a very inconvenient situation. It worked fine in Windows 8.0.
I would appreciate a reply. Thank you.

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