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OUT! Damned Organiser!
Greetings. I'd like not to have Organizer on my computer, but I see it is part and parcel of Elements. (I have 11.) Therefore I'd like to disable it and be sure it never imports a picture from my hard drive or an SD card, and never retains a copy or even thumbnail of anything I scan or work on in Elements.
It may be a fine picture organizer, but I can do it myself. Much more particularly, I want to control where the scanned documents are and who sees them. I intensely dislike the modern trend for autonomous programs and bots to gather up information they are not invited to.Can I tell it not to acquire anything I do not put there manually? (Which I will never intentionally do.)
Second thing---when I try to open it and see if it in fact is full of every picture on my computer, two things happen. First it shows a waiting symbol and says the catalogue is being built. Second, there's a popup window saying, "An app on your PC needs DirectPlay" and invites me to install it. When I tell it to skip that step, it says DirectX cannot be started. If I click to minimize the program, it grays out and becomes non-responsive.
So does this mean (or does it not?) that Organizer isn't working anyway? And is not collecting my files?25 years ago, AOL wanted to become the lobby for all our social activity. (Take this poll!) Now FaceBook is totally out of hand in its goal to connect absolutely every bit if information in the world. I wish these programs and services were all OPT-IN.Thanks,denno
It may be a fine picture organizer, but I can do it myself. Much more particularly, I want to control where the scanned documents are and who sees them. I intensely dislike the modern trend for autonomous programs and bots to gather up information they are not invited to.Can I tell it not to acquire anything I do not put there manually? (Which I will never intentionally do.)
Second thing---when I try to open it and see if it in fact is full of every picture on my computer, two things happen. First it shows a waiting symbol and says the catalogue is being built. Second, there's a popup window saying, "An app on your PC needs DirectPlay" and invites me to install it. When I tell it to skip that step, it says DirectX cannot be started. If I click to minimize the program, it grays out and becomes non-responsive.
So does this mean (or does it not?) that Organizer isn't working anyway? And is not collecting my files?25 years ago, AOL wanted to become the lobby for all our social activity. (Take this poll!) Now FaceBook is totally out of hand in its goal to connect absolutely every bit if information in the world. I wish these programs and services were all OPT-IN.Thanks,denno
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