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robertl96543754
robertl96543754
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January 19, 2023
Question

Elements Organizer 2023 getting in the way of simple tasks

  • January 19, 2023
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The simple task: select a photo and delete it.
Organizer response: Busy analyzing selected media. Try again some time later.

This was repeated several times.
Media Analysis options are all turned off because I don't want or need Elements to Smart Tag, Auto Curate, or Auto Create anything for me. 
What the hell is Adobe doing tieing up MY files on MY PC??

I restarted the Organizer several times. It finally let go after I turned off my PC and restarted.
Again, what sort of analysis does Elements need to run on a picture that I've decide to discard?

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Greg_S.
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Greg_S.Community Expert
Community Expert
January 19, 2023

@robertl96543754 said: Why would it try face reognition on a picture of an airplane?

It has to analyze the photo to see whether there are any faces in it.

robertl96543754
robertl96543754Author
Participant
January 19, 2023

Thanks for your attention to this problem. A better phrasing would have been: Why did it spend so much time looking for faces in a picture of an airplane? I guess the answer has more to do with the temporary file that got left over from the process of writing metadata to the file. I kept getting the message because the existence of the temporary file is treated as a flag there is an unfinished process. I've experienced similar hangups in elements 2020 where the organizer failed to update the metadata. Write Metadata fails have also occurred with elements 2023,  but 2023 seems to do a better job of cleaning up when there's a problem. 

Greg_S.
Community Expert
Greg_S.Community Expert
Community Expert
January 19, 2023

Robert, you haven't told us the exact message you received, but it sounds like one that is generated during face recognition. Did you also turn that off?

robertl96543754
robertl96543754Author
Participant
January 19, 2023

I have it turned off now. Why would it try face reognition on a picture of an airplane?  I did get the original jpg deleted, but using file explorer I just found this temporary work copy still in the folder. I had sent the photo to the editor and cancelled its session without saving. I now remember similarly named temp files created in Elements 2020 when there was a failure writing metadata.

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