Thumbnails view as Hourglass in Organizer 11

Recently I installed the Photoshop Elements 11. Imported some media, and no problems with thumbnails.
Only the next time I tried to add media, the thumbnails show 'hourglass' .. when I click on the hourglass, the
photo's are there. I've tried to update thumbnails, uninstalled and reinstalled the software, and still the
problem exits. Would greatly appreciate your advise. Thank-you!!
Does anyone have a problem with Photoshop Premiere Elements conflicting when you drag
& drop photo's, video's with the Photoshop Organizer? I have a Mac OS 10.6.8 system.
Thanks!!

Okay.. so if you are on Windows platform, goto the location : %programdata%\/Adobe/Elements Organizer/Catalogs and double click the folder whose name is same as your catalog. On MAC the location you go to would be : ~/library\Application Support\Adobe\Elements Organizer\Catalogs
Now there must be a file with name thumbs.cache. Simply rename it.
Launch Organizer and see if thumbnailing happens now for your catalog. If not, run the following two commands-
File >> Manage Catalogs >> Select your catalog >> Optimize
File >> Manage Catalogs >> Select your catalog >> Repair
Thanks
Andaleeb

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On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:33:05 -0800, [email protected] wrote
in <[email protected]>:
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