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Badwolf_DW
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October 14, 2018
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PSE 19 - Auto Creations

  • October 14, 2018
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Anyone know how long it takes for the program to start generating auto creations?  I've had my photos imported for about 5 days and still nothing.  I'm assuming its working in the background and is taking a while since I have over 200K photos, but wanted to see if anyone else has had any auto creations generated yet.

Thanks

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    Correct answer Greg_S.

    Hang in there.  With a catalog your size, it can take many days for the analysis to take place, particularly if you have a lot of video files included.  When you say "5 days" since you imported the photos, has your computer been on 24 hours a day?  And was this an import to a new catalog or a conversion of an old one?  If the former, then you will also be having face recognition and smart tagging using up resources.

    Unfortunately, Adobe has not included a status bar for the Auto Creation analysis.

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    Greg_S.
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    Community Expert
    November 24, 2022

    @axelolympus, please look in the C:\ProgramData\Adobe\Elements Organizer\18.0\CAHeadless\Creations and tell us if you see any sub-folders there.

    Participating Frequently
    November 24, 2022

    The CAHeadless/Creations folder is empty,

    Autocreations has been running for approx 24hrs,

    CPU 0% and Memory 982MB

    Badwolf_DW
    Known Participant
    October 15, 2018

    Yep this morning I have several auto creations! woot!

    Greg_S.
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    Greg_S.Community ExpertCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    October 14, 2018

    Hang in there.  With a catalog your size, it can take many days for the analysis to take place, particularly if you have a lot of video files included.  When you say "5 days" since you imported the photos, has your computer been on 24 hours a day?  And was this an import to a new catalog or a conversion of an old one?  If the former, then you will also be having face recognition and smart tagging using up resources.

    Unfortunately, Adobe has not included a status bar for the Auto Creation analysis.

    Inspiring
    October 17, 2018

    It takes that long even for 56 (not thousand, but just 56) photos that I've put in my organizer?

    Participating Frequently
    November 24, 2022

    My catalog is getting on for 60k images and videos

    Auto-creations is switched on in Elements 2020, and has been several months

    Several continuous days of PC running E2020 autocreations, and nothing else

    No auto-creations!  PC Task Manager shows autocreations running in the background, but using small memory and processor resources.  How many continuous hours might be reasonable to see some autocreations results

    tanx