New file location in folders out of view

+posted by toniemae:+
+When I add a file to an existing or new folder, that file goes to the bottom of the folder out of view, and the folder has a very long scroll bar. That file can be dragged up next to other files near the top of the folder. Or the files in the folder can be rearranged by e.g. name, and all files in the folder are then in view. This problem is especially annoying when one file is added to a new folder, and the folder appears to be empty when opened, except that the huge scroll bar, if noticed, indicates presence of an out-of-sight file somewhere in the folder+.
my 2cents:
yes it true you can set view prefs. but, this is a behavior that did not always happen in 10.4. after installing 10.4.9 on a G5, added/copied or files/folders would appear normally next to any other existing icons. just recently my mac has started putting new files/folders at the bottom, beyond visible space in a window, adding a scroll bar. i think this is a poss. pref's corruption or something..this also happened on my G4 with 10.4.8
anyone find a solution?
(it def. drives me crazy)
thanks, brad

You are using 'icon view' for the folder. Use 'list view'.

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torreyindy

Image size. I have been scanning old 35mm images. Any image greater than about 8100 pixels causes thumbnails to fail - this sounds like being around 2 to the power of 23 but what a really odd combinatin that is.
8100 pixels? All of my photos are larger than that, and I don't have this problem. Do you mean 8100 pixels on a side? There is a known limitation in PSE that photos above a certain pixel size on a side cannot be displayed in the Organizer. I no longer remember what that size is, perhaps someone else can chime in. Scanning your images to be 8100 pixels on a side would be overkill for me; however maybe for you its an important thing to do.
I have about 10,000 photos in the catalog but need to load up about another 5,000 historic images, and we take about 1,500 images per annum.
This is not a problem for PSE.
I have played with databases, so if i can get into the organizer database (at least to do backups), ideally with Access, that would be brilliant. Any suggestions?
If you are going to play with the database through Acess, I think you will fail. I believe that PSE uses SQLite as its database, so you have to use SQLite to view the contents. If you are going to do this, work only on a copy of the database. As this is a long-standing bug in PSE (since at least PSE6), and no one that I know of has found a workaround, and people have reported that the rest of PSE behaves as if the photos are where they are expected to be, my guess is that the bug is in the way PSE displays the photo location in folders. And if that's the case, that the database is correct and its only the display that is incorrect, then there's really nothing you can do to fix that; monkeying around with the database itself won't help.
whereas I had complete confidence in Adobe products being a long time Photoshop fan, I am now taken aback, so any help would be much appreciated.
I agree with you, this is a shame that PSE has this problem and it has gone unfixed since PSE6. Your choices are:
use tags and captions and notes to organize in Thumbnail view, and not use Folder Location View
stop using Organizer, use your operating system to browse your folders, only use the PSE Editor
switch to Lightroom, which has a quality Organizer (called the "Library Module") that doesn't seem to have this particular bug, and in general seems very solid, behaves well and is relatively bug free. (Lightroom 3 currently on sale in the vicinity of $79 (USD) as the anticipation is that Lightroom 4 will be released soon)
switch to other organizing software, there are many, but I make no recommendations as I have tried only PSE and Lightroom

New file location in folders out of view

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