Elements Organizer 2023 - Photo Downloader does Not show thumbnail images

@paulb74770752:  This is a random problem that has not been fixed in Elements 2024. 

@heimoe4497202, I'm not exactly sure what your workaround is.  However, please note that each version of Elements has its own Organizer with its own catalog.  So, you cannot keep the catalogs in synch automatically unless you are using Watch Folders in each.  If the goal is simply to use the Adobe Photo Downloader to import selected files from your camera or card reader, then your workflow will be OK.  But you still have to import the files from your earlier version import to the later version catalog.  And you cannot send files from the Elements 2021 catalog to a version 2023 editor automatically.  However, you can do so via click and drag.

I have no solution but at least found a workaround for Nikon RAW (NEF) files. If you have an old verions of PSE, rsp. Organizer, installed the downloader shows the images. You have to install the old version first and then PSE 2023. This works also for Premiere Elements 2021, which installs the Organizer, too. Since you cannot install the Organizer on its own. At least I don't know how.

So I have now an installtion of PSE 2023 in combination with Premiere Elements 2021. Which is ok for me for now, since I use Premiere only very occasionally and don't bother about the latest version.

I did not bother to figure out what part of the organizer must stay on the system, to solve the problem. May be some on else has the time to do. I'm happy to have found this solution, which wastes "only" 2 GB on my HDD for the old organizer version as patch.

If the problem was already present in PSE 2022 it demonstrates how careless Adobe is about the Elements product. Even if not, we are now 6 month after launch of PSE 2023. Nikon is not a rare camera out there, so there must be quite a number of people with the problem. The workaround above indicates that the issue must be quite simple to resolve. I guess there is a file or parameter missing.

May be its time to depart for a non Adobe product. I would have done now w/o this workaround and will with the next update, if the issue is not resolved by then.

Thanks for the update.  But don't hold your breath.  😉

Does it happen on a memory card with just a few photos? Or does it only happen with a large number of files to import? If the latter, it may be an insufficient RAM issue.  I usually only experience this problem when importing a large number of images (and I have 64GB RAM).  I know of no solution.