Organizer File Size

The Organizer is not displaying some of my pictures. Says "File size is too large", but the picture is only 9.3 mb. I need to view the picture(s) and call them up to edit etc. Can anyone help?

There exists a limit to display the thumbnails of images in Organizer. Till PSE10, the limit was 54 megapixels. In PSE11, the limit has been increased to 72 megapixels.
You may read the article which can help you increase the maximum limit.
Let me know if that helps!
Regards,
vaishali

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I have a new computer running Windows 7 with gobs of RAM and hard drive space. I’ve recently installed Photoshop Elements 8.
I am having the following problem in the Organizer for some 35MM slides that I’ve scanned at 1600DPI. It looks like the pixel size in one example is 9590x6013 = 57,664,670. Based on some reading on the internet it appears that the standard limit in Organizer is 54 megapixels (56,623,104 pixels). Looking over all of my slides I think I will need around 62-65,000,000.
I found an Adobe TechNote, http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/402/kb402760.html, that seems to address this issue for earlier versions. I’ve tried a few times with no luck to follow these notes but there are some differences in my Registry as I’ve noted below in steps 4&5 of the instructions.
I’ve restarted both my computer and Photoshop Elements after making the registry change with no change in the Organizer message. I’ve removed the pictures from the catalog and added them back with no change. They look fine in the Editor. The pictures also look fine in all Windows tumbnails.
The following instructions are copied from the TechNotes. I’ve made two comments in Red where I was a little unsure since my Registry after install of version 8 does not exactly match these version 5&6 notes.
Some instructions I found on your website
To override the maximum image size limit for the Organizer:
Exit the Organizer.
Choose Start > Run.
Type regedit in the Open field and click OK.
In the left pane, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ADOBE\Photoshop Elements\5.0 for Photoshop Elements 5.0 and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ADOBE\Photoshop Elements\6.0 for Photoshop Elements 6.0. Notice that my Adobe is not under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE it is under HKEY_CURRENT_USER.
Highlight the Organizer folder in the left pane.
I’ve noticed that I have two “Organizer” folders under the Adobe registry.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Adobe/Elements Organizer/8.0
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Adobe/Photoshop Elements/8.0/Organizer
Thus far, I’ve only tried this DWORD in the second option.
Choose Edit > New > DWORD Value, and name the new value MaxImageSize.
Highlight the MaxImageSize DWORD and choose Edit > Modify.
Change the Base option to Decimal.
In the Value Data field, enter the new maximum size for an image in pixels. For example, if you want to change the limit to 24 megapixels, then enter 25165824. (To determine a megapixel value in pixels, multiply the value by 1024 x 1024.) If there is a specific image size you are trying to import, then use the this forumula: width x height x 1024 x 1024.
Click OK.
Exit the registry.
Start the Organizer. If you had previously imported images that were over the limit, then delete them from the catalog and re-import them to display the thumbnail.
Thanks, Tom

Hi Tom,
I'm having the sampe problem. Did you ever resolve this issue?

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I have recently migrated my catalog from PhotoShop Album V1.0 to PSE Organizer without problem (or at least I solve all of them, thanks to John !).
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Hi Dave,
This is quite strange. There is as such no limit to the size of the scanned image.
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Sure. I have a catalog with 22,000 images indiscriminately imported from hundreds of folders and multiple drives from this year alone (partially lost a RAID array to a corrupt index and recovered a dump of the files so I'm terribly disorganized juggling emergency redundancy backups wherever I had 50 gigs here, 100 gigs there, and working to clean up and organize my photos one year at a time ), including raw, jpg, websized jpg, png, tiff and psd (flattened and with layers/adjustments) and am now trying to identify my keepers and delete unnecessary files. I have 22 terabytes of personal files and photography spread chaotically and while I now have proper discipline when saving variants, I didn't always and want to remove unneeded, rejected, and duplicate images. I don't expect to be caught up for months or longer depending on my free time and sanity. Unfortunately, it's not as simple as keep the raw delete the rest. Sometimes I have multiple PSD documents with different version names and edits, sometimes with multiple layers, and I have to use a variety of information to identify which one is indeed the correct one to keep...or open them all/both.
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I stopped following this issue a few years ago, but as I recall, this is a known bug in the way PSE handles the writing of the tags to the photo files.
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Hello,
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Release Notes for Cisco Digital Media Suite 5.2.x
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/video/digital_media_systems/5_x/5_2/dms/release/notes/dms52rn.html#wp180130
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