Elements 2018 Organizer has stopped working

half way true downloading photos the process stoped only half the photos downloaded this is the second time it has happened 

and i do not want to go cloud?

Lets see. You are NOT alone. This has happened to me at least couple dozen times. Always when doing facial recognition. Generally the program has not really stopped responding as can be seen in the task manager (cpu usage by the organizer will be high). Sometimes it just slows to a crawl. When you click on anything in the Organizer at that point, it may take a couple of minutes for the program to respond.

It will act flaky until recognition is finished. I posted my estimates for this to complete previously, 500 photos per hour with a SSD. For you that is about 3 days running around the clock!. OR you can turn off smart tags and face recognition in the Edit Preferences.

It may happen again when you do more new faces though. Also be prepared for memory writing errors if you attempt to close the program while its busy doing the recognition. Otherwise its safe to close the software if the CPU usage by the Organizer is 1-5%. Also be on the lookout for memory usage to be very high, way in excess of what was allotted in preferences. Once it gets to be above 90% of your total (>14gb) it is prone to strange behavior as well.

Once all the facial recognition and smart tags complete PSE will become very responsive and the "stopped responding" and "memory writing" errors will stop. There are numerous posting in the forum regarding this behavior.

You can try either of these workarounds:

1. Long Press Shift Key and launch the Organizer. This will give you the option to create a new catalog. You can create a new catalog and start afresh.

2. Go to 'AppData\Roaming\Adobe\'. Rename the folder 'OnlineServices'.

     Go to 'AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Elements Organizer'. Rename the folder '16.0'

     Launch Elements Organizer again.

Thanks,

Somya