Photoshop Elements 12 organizer Help Please

I have downloaded all my scrapbooking grahics into the organizer and it's been fine up until yesterday. After I scrapbooked a couple layouts I went back into the organizer to use an element again and instead of it showing the graphic it shows an hourglass filling up. This has never happened before. So today I went back in thinking everything has restored itself but all the graphics I used yesterday still show hourglasses instead of the graphic. Now if I click on the hourglass it will show the graphic but what good is that? I have thousands of graphics in there and the rest are fine. So what I just did was delete the kits that it affected out of the organizer. ( Some kits have maybe 25 elements) I should have just deleted the actual element but no stupid me deleted the whole kit. What I was attempting to do was just reinstall them right back into the organizer. Now when I brought the kits back into the organizer, every darn item is an hourglass instead of displaying what it actually is. Please does anyone know what the heck happened and how I can correct it???????
Janet

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You are just MARVELOUS !!!! That's awesome: your website, the informations listed in it, the work you do here on the forum !!
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