PSE 8.0 : Organizer application was closed unexpectedly

Question

Hello,
I use PSE 4.0 on Windows XP SP3 to manage more than 64,000 photos
Since I have over 60000 pictures, I have many crashes of PSE 4.0.
So I downloaded PSE 8.0.
I have 3 environments photos:
  1: All the photos (about 64,000 photos)
  2: Tests (approximately 1,300 photos)
  3: Archives (about 1,700 photos)
The conversion of the catalog "Tests" was conducted smoothly and response times are ok: open PSE 8.0 and display 1,300 thumbnails by 8 seconds, development or reduction of a category in less than a second, memory occupancy below 15% in searches.
The conversion of the catalog "Archives" was performed without problem, but PSE 8.0 was closed during the generation of thumbnails with the message: "Adobe has detected that the Elements Organizer application was closed unexpectedly" with a fault report that I sent to Adobe (no response to date after more than a week).
I restarted Organizer and it ended well.
But now the response times are extremely long: open PSE 8.0 and display of the 1700 thumbnails in 58 seconds, development or reduction of a category in 15 seconds, memory occupancy above 95% constantly.
By viewing the Windows Task Manager, I noticed that the Organizer has almost 100% of memory when it is open and it takes about 1 minute after closing the display PSE.
I deleted the catalog, uninstalled and reinstalled PSE 8.0, and make a new conversion with always the same crash.
I deleted all the photos of catalog, keeping only the tags (about 1,700), with always the same crash : do I have too many tags ?
Someone had already this problem ?
Thank you for your responses.

Answer 1

Ok for the « normal » trial message, allthough …
A couple of thoughts :
- I waited 12 to 18 hours to finish generating the thumbnails.
- All the auto-analyzer and automatic people recognition are disabled
- I’ve discovered in “pse-conversion-log_Photos.txt” 4 messages : “logic_error, unable to reorder version set” with versions stacks. So, I’ve suppressed the 4 photos concerned (poison files ?) in the versions stacks of PSE 4.0 and I will convert my catalog another time.
- With every crash, a file log is generated, that I send to Adobe, as asked. I attach to this message file "Adobe8 crash1.doc" which contains a copy of the message display Adobe and content of the file generated after 6 hours 30 of thumbnails generation.
Thank you again for your interest in my problem.