Despite having owned Elements 11 thru to now Elements 14 I have avoided using the Organizer portion. I decided to give it another go this upgrade. I remember why I avoided it. Unlike Bridge, you can't just point it to a folder and look at thumbnails (or if you can I haven't figure it out). However, what I'm posting about is the time it takes for organizer to work. I've pointed to an external drive where I keep my RAW files. It's identified a little over 37,000 images (lots of dupes I should have cleaned out) and it's been cataloguing the drive for almost 24 hrs. now. Does that sound right?
Is it still running Spinner? I'm guessing you're using your Windows machine; I was under the impression that the Mac version came with Bridge. No idea why the PC version doesn't.
I, like you, have always avoided the Elements organiser after a first disastrous brush with it many years ago.
Quote from: Hinfrance on April 21, 2016, 12:57:45 PM
Is it still running Spinner? I'm guessing you're using your Windows machine; I was under the impression that the Mac version came with Bridge. No idea why the PC version doesn't.
I, like you, have always avoided the Elements organiser after a first disastrous brush with it many years ago.
No Howard, I'm running it on my iMac. I'm using Corel's PaintshopPro and Aftershot Pro on the Windows machine and frankly would use that on the Mac if there was a Mac version. Yes the little spinning wheel is still turning and the catalogue still has several hundred little thumbnail squares that are just grey with little hourglass icons.
Quote from: spinner on April 21, 2016, 09:55:17 PM
Quote from: Hinfrance on April 21, 2016, 12:57:45 PM
Is it still running Spinner? I'm guessing you're using your Windows machine; I was under the impression that the Mac version came with Bridge. No idea why the PC version doesn't.
I, like you, have always avoided the Elements organiser after a first disastrous brush with it many years ago.
No Howard, I'm running it on my iMac. I'm using Corel's PaintshopPro and Aftershot Pro on the Windows machine and frankly would use that on the Mac if there was a Mac version. Yes the little spinning wheel is still turning and the catalogue still has several hundred little thumbnail squares that are just grey with little hourglass icons.
People on the Apple Support forums are suggesting that my 8 gigs of ram aren't enough. I'll be ordering more in the near future, in the meantime the catalog is building (slowly) I'm just going to leave it running.
8gb not enough? That's progress for you I suppose.
The last and only time I ran Elements Organiser it fell over after several hours. Hope yours keeps on running to conclusion.
Quote from: Hinfrance on April 22, 2016, 07:40:07 AM
8gb not enough? That's progress for you I suppose.
The last and only time I ran Elements Organiser it fell over after several hours. Hope yours keeps on running to conclusion.
Yes that was my thought. I got impatient & stopped it. Several blocks of blank thumbnails. And the thumbnails I do have say "file missing" when I tried to open them. Nor will
it let me manually reconnect. PIECE OF CRAP. >:(
Quote from: Hinfrance on April 21, 2016, 12:57:45 PM
Is it still running Spinner? I'm guessing you're using your Windows machine; I was under the impression that the Mac version came with Bridge. No idea why the PC version doesn't.
I, like you, have always avoided the Elements organiser after a first disastrous brush with it many years ago.
The mac versions changed from bridge to organiser somewhere between versions 8 and 10. Thankfully I kept the old version so I could still use bridge. I'm another one who finds organiser too slow to be useful (and too buggy) - this on a 12GB machine...
Quote from: Paul Montgomery on April 23, 2016, 05:02:19 PM
Quote from: Hinfrance on April 21, 2016, 12:57:45 PM
Is it still running Spinner? I'm guessing you're using your Windows machine; I was under the impression that the Mac version came with Bridge. No idea why the PC version doesn't.
I, like you, have always avoided the Elements organiser after a first disastrous brush with it many years ago.
The mac versions changed from bridge to organiser somewhere between versions 8 and 10. Thankfully I kept the old version so I could still use bridge. I'm another one who finds organiser too slow to be useful (and too buggy) - this on a 12GB machine...
Oh well, it's caused me to order more memory for my iMac, not really a bad thing. :)
Well, for me, it's official. Adobe's Elements Organizer is crap. I've upgraded the memory in my Mac to 20 gigs. Tried to load the catalogue that was allegedly created and gee, wouldn't you know it all the links were broken. Tried the reconnect option. That was bright an early about 8 am. by 4:30 it had only completed 19% of the reconnect.
It's always been rubbish - nothing has changed it would seem.
Quote from: Hinfrance on May 06, 2016, 03:40:50 PM
It's always been rubbish - nothing has changed it would seem.
And it's mind boggling when you consider how easy Bridge was to use or LR's catalogue function (which I ended up using). If I knew how to completely delete the Organizer function I would, but I'm afraid it would bugger the Editor function. I also wish I could get half my money back, since Organizer does make up half the Elements function. >:(