Photoshop Elements 10 Backing up Catalog

When I go into the Organizer, hit File Back Up Catalog to CD/DVD or Hard Drive my stsyem goes into a loop. How can i fix that?

You mean your catalog folder's size is 17.9GB? How many image/video/audio/project files are there in your catalog?
Can you please check if some files in your catalog are locked by some other application or are read-only?? If yes, they will not be picked up for backup and hence the hang.
Please turn off all background processes like people recognition, auto analysis and visual search indexing from Edit >> Preferences >> Media Analysis. Close Organizer and kill the following exes if running, from the Task Manager-
elementsautoanalyzer.exe
photoshopserver.exe
dynamiclinkmanger.exe
adobephotoshopfileagent.exe
any sync related exe
Now relaunch Organizer and try taking backup.
Thanks
Andaleeb

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