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thepizzos
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February 4, 2024
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Organizer improvements in PSE2024

  • February 4, 2024
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Hey everyone,

 

I have an older 2019 version of PSE19. One of my needs from the product is a easier way to find the photos of people I want. I have over all my family pictures and photos from my trips from 1940 to current broken up into 22,213 folders (by year and month "date"), consisting of 487,997 images and about 3TB of space. 

 

PSE19 really struggles with loading all the images and doing facial recognition on them. The main symptom it is super sluggish and periodically just won't load. I know that is a lot off pictures and and maybe I need to break up the catalog in to decades or some smaller chunk.

 

My main question is wil PSE24 beable to handle this large number of files any better than PSE19? 

Does PSE24 have a more efficent organizer or is it the same engine as PSE19?

 

Thanks for any information you can share,

 

David

 

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    Greg_S.
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    Greg_S.Community Expert
    Community Expert
    February 4, 2024

    I think yours is the largest catalog I have ever seen reported.  My own is about half the size of yours.  Adobe has never published a maximum size and I doubt whether splitting up your catalog will give you any great benefit.

     

    In general, I would say that performance has improved since Elements 2019, but that is a very subjective measure, and performance may well depend on computer specs.  I rarely see any slugishness, and my computer which had high end specs 4 or 5 years ago still speeds through adding images to the catalog and analyzing them.   I am a big user of face recognition and the performance of face recognition has definitely improved over the past few years, both in speed and accuracy.  If you are face recognizing a large number of images, the number of stacks for a single person will be much smaller. 

     

    But the only way to make a comparison is to judge for yourself on your machine with your catalog.  So I suggest you do as Glenn says and download the free trial version.  If you decide not to upgrade, you will still have your old version intact.

     

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    thepizzosAuthor
    Participant
    February 4, 2024

    Glenn and Greg,

     

    Thanks for your response. I will give it a try and report back what the results are.

     

    Thank you,


    David

    Glenn 8675309
    Glenn 8675309
    Legend
    February 4, 2024

    Download the 100% free trial and give it a try.   Sluggishness can happen for any number of reasons.   Media Analysis when first run, from my experience anyway, can be a system resource hog.   Autocreations is turned on by default- I find thatto be another resource hog.  The first time you run it-  start it before you go to bed, and let it run all night.   The first time I ran it it took my computer about 3 days to analysis everything for the faces-  4 hard drives including one external HD. 

    In various Adobe communities many users have no problems with 250,000 images. 



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