Why Constantly Generating Thumbnails?

Starting yesterday, PSE9 organizer is constantly generating thumbnails. And very slow to show images. I let it run all night and it was still "generating thumbnails" even though all showed. Looks like it's stuck in a loop. What to do?

I think this is due to loop caused by corrupt files in the file list that got through the screening process.
If you exit during this loop it sometimes leaves the elementsorganiser.exe running as a an orphaned process and the you may not be able to restart the organiser unless you kill the process or re-boot
The loop often continues even if you kill the process or re-boot.
I have found three fixes:
1. Try and find the corrupt files and remove them from the organiser, time consuming if you have a large number of files.
2. Delete all the files in the catalogue.
3. Create a new catalogue and open it, then try a repair on the original catalogue.
All three have worked for me; the orphan process and generating thumbnails loop disappear
Hope this helps

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Me just thinking
• Panic Halts = error builds up on Hard Disk - I always do a
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Source:
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Event ID:
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Task Category: (100)
Level:
Error
Keywords:
Classic
User:
N/A
Computer:
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!http://picasaweb.google.com/rocketmanblamb/IMovieSupportImages?authkey=5u255cTC 8Tc#5265891696441348034!
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[http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1775462]
[http://splinterinyourmind.com/2008/08/14/workaround-for-imovie-08-taking-a-long -time-forever-to-generate-thumbnails>
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