Photoshop 12- backing up catalogue

PS Elements stalls while backing up a catalouge at 72%. Tried repair and optomise without success. What's next???

The most current situation is that you have a video file or video files of a certain file format which is unrecognized.
The solution is to delete video files from your catalog.
If you want to run a test without really deleting the video files from your current catalog, duplicate the catalog folder somewhere on your drive. You find that catalog in the menu Help / System info. When you have copied the whole folder, close the organizer, and double click on the catalog.psexxdb file; that will open the duplicate catalog. Delete the videos from catalog (not from drive) and try the backup again.

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