PSE 9 & 10 Organizers

I have PS Elements 9 and PhotoShop CS5 on a Mac running 10.6.8. I just installed PSE 10 and noticed I have Organizers for PSE 9 and 10. I don't see an uninstaller for the Organizers, which are just taking up space on my hard drive. I prefer to use Bridge. Can I just drag the 2 Organizers to the trash without affecting how the Elements run?

Just leave them alone if you want PSE to run properly. For future reference the app store version comes without organizer or the functions in PSE that use organizer.

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"Auto-Analyzer has skipped one or more file(s) because of potential errors"

Because of size of my photo library (>5k pics) I decided to switched of automatic auto-analyzer.
But when I use Auto-Analyzer from context menu on a single photo I always get message "Auto-Analyzer has skipped one or more file(s) because of potential errors". Why?
PSE 9 Organizer

I have the same problem with just one of 6000 images in my library. It is a straigthforward jpg. The image is not corrupt and the thumbnail is produced just fine. PSE can edit the image perfectly.
Dimenionally it was quite large so I produced scaled down 1920-wide image but that too will not be analysed.
It is quite an unusual image taken at dawn on the top of a mountain in Bali with lots of mist. I don't know, I think maybe the auto analyzer might sometimes fail to reach a conclusion about the tags to apply. kondzik, is your image "unusual" in anyway?

Dialogfenster "Aktualisierung..." nach Start des Organizers in PSE 5

Hallo,
nach Start des Organizers und laden des Katalogs erscheint ein Dialogfenster ohne Cancel-Button. In dem Fenster steht nur "Aktualisierung...". Ein grafischer Balken zeigt den Fortschritt an. Bei 100% schließt das Dialogfenster automatisch und gibt PSE 5 zum Arbeiten frei. Bei meinem Katalog mit ca. 10.000 Fotos dauert der Vorgang ca. 2 Minuten. Während dieser Zeit ist kein Arbeiten mit PSE 5 möglich. Ich frage mich, was wird da aktualisiert und kann man diesen Vorgang vermeiden?
MFG
G2Fan

Hallo wieder G2Fan,
ich glaube nicht. Es ist so seit anderen Versionen, und ja ist wirklich
problematisch, aber man muß warten, wenn ich wirklich verstanden hätte.
Tschüß

PSE 7 Sort order in file folder view

In Thumbnail view I can order the photos by oldest first or newest first. When I change my display option to folder view the photos do not display in any order. Not the order taken (oldest to newest) or (newest to oldest) or by filename. I am unable to determine the logic that is applied in folder view. Further, I can not locate a sort tool either in folder view. I am running Vista, and am new to PSE. I have been running Macintosh with iPhoto, so this is my mindset. Any migration advice from iPhoto Mac to Vista PSE7 would also be of interest.
Barry in St. Louis

Ernst,
The PSE Organizer is designed for organizing photos by date/time and keyword tags, not folders and filenames. So most people find that once their photos have the right date/time, they can profitably ignore folders and filenames. A couple of suggestions for getting all your photos to have the right date/time:
1. Adjust the date/time of each folder of images as described in the previous message, so they all have the correct date/time. That may be a little tedious, but if you have 20 different such folders, youll be done soon enough. Then in the Organizers Thumbnail view, all the photos will be arranged by date/time.
2. Create a new album in the Organize pane. Then put each folder of images with wrong date/times into the album. Then click on the album name in the Organize pane to show just those images. Now you can freely rearrange their order within the album. Once theyre ordered correctly, you can select all of them and use Edit > Adjust Date And Time to shift them to the correct starting time(s).

Bugs Ive Encountered In PSE 7

Here are all the reproducible bugs Ive encountered in PSE 7. Problems added since my last posting on 10/5/08 are marked [N]. Because of limitations of the forum, this list is split across several messages.
Ive reported all of these problems to Adobe. Almost all of them are in the Organizer. Based on all the reports on the forums, it appears that the Editor has far fewer problems than the Organizer. Perhaps thats because the Editor shares the same code with the professional Photoshop, while the Organizer appears to be an orphaned consumer product whose development Adobe has moved offshore.
For reference, my computer is a midrange Vista laptop with a dual-core 1.8 GHz processor, 3 GB of memory, and a 7200 RPM disk (the same speed as desktop disks).
File Management and Tagging
Major Problems
[N] File > Backup/Restore Catalog doesnt backup and restore audio in slide shows.
[N] Using Folder Location view to move a folder containing hidden files imported in the catalog will silently fail to move the hidden files and will leave the unhidden files disconnected in the catalog.
[N] When converting a previous-version catalog whose photos are stored inside the catalog folder, as occurs when youve previously used File > Restore Catalog with New Location, PSE 7 needlessly copies all those photos. If you have a very large catalog, this will waste huge amounts of disk space; and if there isnt enough disk space to do the copy, the conversion will fail instantly with a generic non-explanatory error message.
[N] After reconnecting a file on a network drive, PSE will let you import the file a second time, failing to recognize it as a duplicate. The catalog is left in an inconsistent state, with two entries in the volume table for the network drive, one upper case and one lower case.
The Organizer fails very ungracefully when two drives have the same volume serial number, e.g. because of the use of a disk-cloning utility.
]Im very disappointed that Adobe didnt add the three lines of code that would have issued a warning when it discovered two drives with the same number. While most people will never encounter this, when it strikes someone, its symptoms are very mysterious.
The Reconnect command fails to reconnect when: you move your photos to a new drive, assign the drive the letter of the old drive to the new one, and leave both drives connected to your computer.
If a hard drive containing photos in the catalog gets its drive letter reassigned by Windows, then the left-hand folder pane of Display > Folder Location view shows the old drive letter, not the new one, as containing the photos.
]This sounds innocuous, but it led a user on the forums to select the wrong drive when dragging and dropping a folder, permanently deleting some files. This bug and the previous one with Reconnect have the same underlying cause the Organizer doesnt update drive letters in its catalog.
Folder Location view shows incorrect folder contents when more than one keyword tag is selected in the Keyword Tags pane.
]Based on reports on the forums, there appear to be other situations where Folder Location view shows incorrect folder contents, but they havent been easy to reproduce.
The Restore Catalog command puts the wrong path into the restored catalog for folders whose name starts with the catalog name, and it will mark files in those folders as missing. For example if the catalog is named houses, and a folder containing photos in the catalog is named houses photos, files in the restored catalog will have the path houses\ photos\ instead of houses photos\.

Part III Color Management Major Problems The Organizer considers photos produced by cameras set to the color space Adobe RGB as untagged with a color profile, showing their colors incorrectly. The Original (left) image in the Save For Web window is displayed without using the photos profile, making it hard to compare the preview with the original. Metadata Major Problems [N] When setting the Organizers date/time for imported photos containing EXIF:DateTimeOriginal but not XMP:DateTimeOriginal, PSE 7 doesnt properly handle US Daylight Savings Time in years prior to 2007. [N] Edit > Adjust Date and Time doesnt properly handle US Daylight Savings Time when setting date/times many decades ago, e.g. October 5, 1961 12:00 PM. [N] In Thumbnail View, the Organizer incorrectly orders files that have unknown time. For example, it will show a file dated 12/25/1976 8:00 PM PST after a file dated 12/26/1976 (unknown time) on a computer in time zone PST. [N] If you set a file's date/time fields to all unknown with Edit > Adjust Date And Time, the value of EXIF:DateTimeOriginal isn't cleared by File > Write Keyword Tag. [N] The File > Write Keyword Tag command doesnt create or update .XMP sidecars for Nikon D300 or D80 .NEF raw files (but it does for Canon CR2 raw files). New dates set by Edit > Adjust Date and Time sometimes get silently lost. ]If you set the date/time for a BMP, PDF, or Quicktime movie, or a file thats marked readonly, invoking the full Editor or Edit > Update Thumbnail will discard the adjusted date/time. Edit > Adjust Date and Time sometimes sets the wrong date/time for the EXIF:CreateDate and DateTimeOriginal, causing other tools to show the wrong date/time. File > Write Keyword Tags and Properties fails to write the map location (GPS coordinates) of TIFFs (tested with TIFFs produced by the PSE Editor and the Nikon Coolscan V, Nikon Coolscan 5000, and Epson 4490 scanners). File > Write Keyword Tags doesnt write the map location (GPS coordinates) into the .xmp sidecar files of Nikon D80 or Canon G9 raw photos. Minor Problems [N] The Properties Metadata window shows the wrong value for Date Time Original when the day is unknown. Edit > Adjust Date and Time applied to a file with time unknown decrements the date by one day. When you save an edited photo as a new file but not in a version set, the edited version picks up the date/time and caption of the original but not the keyword tags, star rating, or notes. With the Import EXIF Caption option turned off, captions pre-existing in a files EXIF:ImageDescription metadata field reappear in the Organizer after invoking the Full Editor. Searching Major Problems The timeline doesnt correctly display date ranges spanning many years. Using the Keyword Tags pane, you can no longer exclude a parent category from a search, e.g. exclude all photos tagged with any tag in the People category. ]The User Guide gives two examples of how to use category exclusion that just dont work in PSE 6 or 7. Interestingly, you can almost work around this by doing a text search of not <category tag>, e.g. not People. But this will also exclude photos that happen to have the word people in their filenames, captions, or notes, probably not what you want. Find > By History > Imported On sorts the photo dates alphabetically, rather than by date/time, and it takes a couple of minutes on a large catalog, making the command almost useless; and it shows a scary message Deleting Keyword Tags. Searching for 0 stars only doesnt work for photos in a catalog converted from PSE 5. Searching with date ranges doesnt properly handle time unknown. Minor Problems [N] The Show All button sometimes doesnt appear if you quickly type a query into the Search text box and hit Enter. Setting a date range and then excluding two tags from the search clears the date range. Show All doesnt clear a date range set by Find > Set Date Range (can be very confusing). Save Search Criteria As Smart Album isnt available if a date range has been set but no other search criteria have been. When searching, you can exclude a keyword tag and then include an album, but you cant do it in the other order.

Quickly reconnecting large numbers of photos in PSE 6 and 7

[This is a significant revision of my message posted here on 2/8/2008 and in the Photoshop Elements 6.0 FAQ forum on 2/9/2008. It is split across two messages.]
Part I of II
When you move photos from one location to another using Windows Explorer or some other tool outside of the Organizer, PSE reports those files as missing, and a question mark appears on the thumbnails in the Organizer. The File > Reconnect command can reconnect those files with their new location, but it can be very slow and sometimes only connects a few files at a time.
Its always best to move files and folders using the Organizer, avoiding the need to reconnect. But if youve already moved those files, here are some ways of coping in PSE 6 and 7:
1. Move the files back to their original location using Windows Explorer. Then use the Organizers Display > Folder Location view or the File > Move command to move the files to the desired new location. In the left-hand folder pane of Folder Location view, you can drag and drop folders, just like in Windows Explorer (this isnt documented in the Help).
Since the File > Move command moves files to a single destination folder, its not that useful for working with more than one folder. The PSE 6 Move command also has a serious bug if you move a file to a folder that already has a file of the same name, the destination file gets permanently deleted. (Thats fixed in PSE 7.)
2. Reconnect an entire folder all at once. If you cant or dont want to use the first method, you can use File > Reconnect > All Missing to reconnect more than one file at a time.
Its not immediately obvious, but the Reconnect > All Missing window can reconnect an entire folder of files all at once. On the left-hand side, under Files Missing from Catalog, click Select All. On the right side, under Locate the Missing Files, browse to the folder containing the files. A thumbnail of one of the files should be displayed. Click Reconnect, and all the files in the folder will be reconnected. If there are files in other folders remaining to be connected, theyll still be displayed on the left, and you can repeat the process.
3. Reconnect an entire folder tree all at once. If youve moved an entire tree of folders and theyre now disconnected, you can persuade PSE to reconnect them all quickly.
a. In Edit > Preferences > Files, select the option Automatically Search For And Reconnect Missing Files.
b. Do File > Reconnect > Missing File to reconnect one file manually.
c. Do File > Reconnect > All Missing. PSE will start searching near the folder containing the missing file you reconnected in step b, and it will usually find all the missing files within a couple of minutes of searching.
d. If step c doesnt find all the missing files, or youre impatient, you can explicitly tell PSE where to search:
]i. Do Help > System Info and write down the folder location of your catalog.
]ii. Exit PSE.
]iii. Use Windows Explorer to navigate to the catalog folder.
]iv. Open the file rmf.3.cache in Notepad. This file was created in step b above. It contains the most recent folders in which you reconnected files (rmf = reconnected media folders), and the Reconnect command always searches these folders first before scanning the rest of your drives.
]v. Delete all of the contents of the file and add a single line containing the full path of root of the folder tree containing your photos. For example, if you moved the folder tree to E:\data\photos, add that as a single line to the file.
]vi. Save the file.
]vii. Restart PSE and do File > Reconnect All Missing again. It should first search the folder tree you provided in step v.

Part II of II 4. Reconnect folders residing on a network drive. If youve moved folders that originally resided on one network drive to another network drive, the Organizer will treat them as offline rather than missing, and it will show a red circle with a vertical line in the corner of the thumbnails. An offline file is one that might show up later on, such as when you reconnect your laptop to the network containing your file server or you insert a DVD containing your archived photos. Since the moved files are offline, the PSE 6 Reconnect All Missing command wont do anything but tell you there are no files to reconnect. You can force PSE to reconnect many offline files at once: a. Select all the photos that are offline. b. Do File > Write Keyword Tag and Properties Info. c. In the Find Offline Volumes window that pops up, select Reconnect and click OK. Unfortunately, method 3 doesnt appear to work with offline files on a network drive. If you have a large number of individual folders and dont have the patience to reconnect each folder in turn, you can either use method 1 (restore the files to their original location) or recreate the original UNC name for the network drive (e.g. \\mycomputer\share). (You could also try editing the catalog file using the tool sqlite3 search these forums for how to do it. But thats sketchy at best.) ------------------------------------ If you reconnect a file and get the message <old file> was not connected to <new file> or The file already exists in the catalog, then youve stumbled over a PSE bug for which there are workarounds. See this thread: <a href="/webx?14@@.59b66777/5">John Rolfe Ellis, "Cannot Reconnect; File already exists" #6, 17 Sep 2008 2:49 pm</a> ------------------------------------ I havent tested any this in PSE 5, so I cant say how much works the same way.

PSE 7 and LR2

I have PSE 7 and online photo back up on photoshop.com. I just recently purchased Lightroom 2 (LR2) to edit my RAW files and am not certain where to start.
I do not want to store pictures in the seperate locations already established by me on my computer and that which is the "default" storage location for LR2. More spcifically, I keep my PSE pics in an Adobe file on my C drive and LR defaults to the My Pictures file in my documents.
If I copy all of the files/folders from Adobe to a new file in the My Pictures folder for LR how will PSE know where to sync my online album from?
Help please with my work flow.
Kay Howard

Can I do this with PSE 7? I read somewhere that later versions of PSE cannot be imported into LR2 using the import tool (I know I can do it manually). I agree about two organizers. My overconfident, overinflated opinion of my understanding of said caused me to delete all of my pictures from their current storage location recently. Thank goodness for Photoshop.com.
Thanks so much for your assistanace.

PSE 7 not auto downloading photos

I can't get the photo downloader to start automatically under Vista with PSE 7. When I go to autoplay options, the downloader is not one of those offered and I can't see how to add it.
The downloader works if I start it from within the organizers, but under Autoplay it won't let me choose it as one of the options, only Nero, Windows downloader and windows viewer.

Thanks for the confirmation about this incompatibility issue in Vista 64. It is a nuisance to have to manually download photos after getting spoiled by PSE's (32 bit) automated downloader. I did download the trial version of LightRoom (64 bit), and it's downloader is recognized in Vista 64. So it's just a 32 bit issue with PSE.
Otherwise, PSE 7 is fast and stable on Vista 64. Let's hope that Adobe sees the value in moving into the 64 bit age with all of their current software products, including PSE 7.

How do PSE Organizer import photo tags? not found

After importing all my picture to one catalogue in the organizer of PSE 9 for Mac, I recognize that my photo tags which were set in Lightroom and save in the photos are not available in the oragnizer.
Even I am not able to find those tags or can use my tags for filtering.
Is there a switch inside PSE to activate my tags or what ever.
Thanks for your help!

Did Lightroom write the tags to the photo files? Lightroom doesn't do that automatically, you have to turn on an option in Lightroom.
Which brings up a 2nd point. Why do you want to use two different "organizers", one in PSE and one in Lightroom. This seems to me to be pointless ... extra work, no benefit.
If I had to pick one "organizer", I would simply use the Lightroom Library Module. It doesn't make sense to me to pick the PSE Organizer in this case.

In PSE will I use more hard-disk space by using iPhoto plus Organizer for photos?

I have PSE 10 on my MAC. I normally download my photos onto iPhoto (and a while ago, onto Bridge CS3 which came with an earlier version of PSE) but more recently have become interested in using the PSE Organizer for my photo library. I have started to transfer/copy the photos from iPhoto but, having read various topics on organizing photos, am a little worried that by having the photos in 2/3 places on the MAC I will use much more hard-disk space. I know that the original files for iPhoto are in the 'Library' so that I just see thumbnails on iPhoto ( I may be wrong here?), but will the photos I now have on Organizer be working off those same 'Library' originals or am I doubling up on the space required to store these photos?

For information my iPhoto is v 9.5.1 and would seem not to like .dng files so won't load them (I am using the Adobe RAW to DNG 8.3 Converter at the moment mainly because I would have to upgrade to PSE12 to get the RAW plug-in to process my Lumix G-6 RAW files, which is fairly expensive and, even then, my iPhoto would still be the same version unless I upgraded that as well!).
I can load the RAW files onto iPhoto but when I then send them to PSE or iPhoto itself for editing they seem to be automatically converted to .jpg and do not have the usual RAW editing selection palette. However, the PSE Organizer seems happy to accept the .dng files (but not the RAW files) and when sent to PSE for editing I do get the RAW type palette, so it looks like storing my .dng files in Organizer is a good idea and, therfore, I might as well store other photos there as well rather than run two different organizers - I will leave the photos in Bridge as they are.
If you are talking about photos not in iphoto, this is correct. If you use "from iPhoto" you will get automatic duplicates of the originals in a new location. If you export them manually and use from files and folders, yes, the organizer just makes a thumbnail.
This paragraph made me think! I'm pretty sure that when I decided to transfer my photos from iPhoto into PSE Organizer I used "from iPhoto" as this seemed the easiest way. Does this mean that I have duplicated the file size of my iPhoto library and am therefore using much more hard-disc space than if I had used "from files and folders" (getting just thumbnails)? The transfer seems to have pulled in a lot of folders! If this is the case, is there any way to go back and do it again but "from files and folders" next time?!
This is all rather complicated it would seem (or I'm making it that way!) and I really appreciate your help.

Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 Organizer Katalog außerhalb des Organizers auf Festplatte sichern

Hallo zusammen,
weiß jemand wie, ob man den Katalog des Organizers außerhalb des Organizers auf eine Festplatte sichern kann?
Danke für Antworten
Grüße
Julian

hans-g. wrote:
leg los, trau Dich!Und wenn die Kataloge im Eimer sein sollten hast Du sie doch schnell wieder aufgebaut, Hauptsache ist doch, dass PSE 9 stabil läuft! Und bei mir tut es das zumindest meine augenblickliche 60 Tage-Testversion.
Mir kommt es allerdings auch noch so vor, als müsstest Du Deine Festplatte mal wieder richtig aufräumen, also "defrag", ggfs. Arbeitspeicher zuverlässig leeren (z.B. "FreeRAM XP Pro"), die "registry" entrümpeln usw. Hab' ich recht?
Hans-G.
1. Dann tue ich erstmal neuinstallieren
2. Nein du hast nicht Recht.
    Registry sollte dank Tuneup's automatischer Wartung eigentlich entrümpelt sein.
    Defragmentieren tue ich meinen Rechner auch regelmäßig.
    Einen RAM-Optimierer habe ich nicht installiert. Allerdings sind solche
    Programme(FreeRAM XP Pro) eigentlich recht unnüntzlich da Windows
    seinen RAM auch selber optimieren kann.
    Und überhaupt solche RAM-Optimierer schaden der Speicherverwaltung mehr, als sie
    nützen. Warum sollte man sich so einen Schrott installieren?
    Wie kommst du den zu der Annahme das mein System nicht richtig optimiert ist?
LG
Julian

Catalog conversion error PSE 6 to 7

I am running Windows Vista and I am in the process of upgrading from PSE 6 to 7. I have 3 catalogs; 2 converted just fine, the third will not convert. It is "My Catalog". It fails instantly upon selecting the convert button. As instructed, I went back to PSE6 and repaired the catalog multiple times with and without optimizing. I cannot find a coversion error message as other posts have referred to. It also continues to show up on the regular list of catalogs; I do not have to check previously converted catalogs to see it listed.
I was also able to create a new catalog and import some photos with no issue. If anyone can offer suggestions on how to get this last catalog converted, I would certainly appreciate it. I have even un- and re-installed PSE7 twice to no avail.
I expected this upgrade to be simpler than going from 5 to 6 which was complicated by switching to a new computer and changing from XP to Vista but this is proving to be equally as frustrating!
Thanks for any advice and Happy New Year!
-Barb

Barb,
Glad you got it converted. I reread the thread and did some tests you were right that it was a disk-space problem. Its another bug in PSE, and youve still got some careful cleaning-up to do.
Your PSE 6 catalog is stored in the folder:
C:\Program Data\Photoshop Elements\Catalogs\My Catalog
You appear to have your photos stored in subfolders of My Catalog. Most likely this occurred when you used backup/restore to move from XP/PSE 5 to Vista/PSE 6 last year the restore will place all your photos within the catalog folder.
When PSE 7 converts a catalog, the first thing it does is try to make a copy of the entire catalog folder, including any subfolders containing your photos. As you discovered, this will fail immediately (with no helpful error message) if there isnt enough free disk space.
However, if the copy succeeds, it then converts the PSE 6 catalog database file (catalog.psedb). But the new PSE 7 catalog still refers to the
original location of your photos, in your PSE 6 catalog folder:
C:\Program Data\Photoshop Elements\Catalogs\My Catalog
The copies placed in your PSE 7 catalog folder arent being used they were needlessly copied by PSE 7. So you most likely have 56 GB of disk space consumed by unused copies of all your photos.
To clean this up, you can first verify the locations of the photos in the PSE 7 catalog by using the Organizers Properties window. Do they indeed refer to the location of your PSE 6 catalog folder?
If so, then use Help > System Info to find the location of the PSE 7 catalog folder. Then you can delete all the subfolders of that folder containing the unused copies of your photos. To be extra conservative, I would first move those folders somewhere else on your disk, and then in PSE 7 give the File > Reconnect > All Missing, to verify that they indeed arent being referenced by the PSE 7 catalog. Once youve verified that, you can safely delete them.
I'll file a bug report with Adobe.

Organizer von PSE 9.0 aktualisiert sehr langsam und sehr oft

Hallo
Ich benutze PSE schon sehr lange. Seit der Version 8.0 habe ich ein Problem. Der Organizer aktualisiert automatisch bei ca. jedem 2. oder 3. Start des Programms. Das wäre ja noch kein Problem, wenn es etwas schneller gehen würde als gegen 30 Minuten. Es kommt auch vor, dass die Aktion schon beim nächsten Start des Programms gleich wieder vonstatten geht. Eine ziemlich mühsame Sache.
Weiss da jemand Rat.
PS: Soviel kann ich sagen: ich verschiebe und lösche keine Bilder ausserhalb des Organizers!

Meinen Sie, dass das Programm selbst sich aktualisiert? Dann gehen Sie zu >Hilfe >Updates (Aktualisierungen) >Voreinstellungen und stellen dort die automatischen Aktulalisierungen ab.
Juergen

PSE 6 crashes after restore

I recently had to do a restore from Backup of my PSE 6.0. The restore went fine, but when i restarted PSE, it said it was regenerating thumbnails. It would regenerate for a ocuple hours, then crash. When I restart the PSE organizer, it crashes almost instantaneously now so I can do nothing. My catalog is almost all jpg files (about 25K) and less than 10 psd files. No camera raw files. Assuming the problem was related to generating thumbnails, I have tried to:
1. repair and optimize the catalog
2. install the ACR update
3. set the processor affinity to 1 (by launching in a command prompt) and also removing multi processor supprt
4. deleting the thumbnail cache
5. deleting the organizers preferences
6. installed the licensing service update
I don't know what else to do. I took a look at the log file, an everything looks pretty normal, the last line says
"App is now visible and ready for input...
12517 (+ 261) Finished UI init."
I would appreciate any other suggestions.
thanks,

So I tried to locate the poison files, and there were just too many. I identified over 10 directories with what appeared to be at least one poison file (each directory had many subdirectories). So I have given up on this tact. However, I did restore my backup to a different computer (with PSE 6 loaded) just to see if it worked, and it worked perfectly on the first try. I am thinking I have a problem with a setting somewhere on my main computer (perhaps a setting for cache size-PSE always crashes when thumb.5.cache is at 237 MB). I have uninstalled PSE and reinstalled it, but that did not help. I also deleted everything from the Pictures directory and the exisiting catalog, and then did the restore thinking that when the files were just overwritten something was not overwritten correctly. Is there someway to delete everything associated with PSE and start from a clean slate?
If it is not a setting, then there must be a conflict with another program.

Unable to import into PSE 7 Organizer

I've got PSE 7 on a Windows XP- "Fusion" partioned drive running on a Mac OS 10.5. The editor of PSE 7 will open these images from a shared file, but the organizer will not import them from that same shared file. I’ve tried to import into organizers of versions 5 and 6 with no problem. Is there a solution or workaround for this problem? ps The organizer will import if I copy the files from Mac into XP, but I don't have the space on the Windows partition for 70G + of images.

A couple of others have reported issues running PSE on a Mac virtual machine. It appears there may be incompatibilities somewhere between Mac, the WIndows virtual machine, and PSE. See this thread in particular:
http://74.125.113.132/search?q=cache:YFm4lVWRHUQJ:www.adobeforums.com/webx%3F14%40%40.59b6 aaf4/1+Phillip+Ushijima+site:adobeforums.com&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
(Unfortunately, I'm not able to find it in the new forums -- the indexing of archived messages doesn't appear to work very well.)
This person seemed to have a similar issue: PSE on a Mac virtual machine can't access a native Mac volume. HIs solution was to export the Mac volume as a network drive (using SMB) and then access it from the Windows virtual machine. Maybe that approach would work for you. (Ignore all the stuff about converting his database.)

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