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Badwolf_DW
Badwolf_DW
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Oct 14, 2018 2:56 PM UTC
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PSE 19 - Auto Creations

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.

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    Greg_S.
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    Oct 14, 2018 4:23 PM UTC

    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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    Greg_S.Community Expert
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    Nov 24, 2022 7:27 AM UTC

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

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    axelolympus
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    Nov 24, 2022 4:24 PM UTC

    The CAHeadless/Creations folder is empty,

    Autocreations has been running for approx 24hrs,

    CPU 0% and Memory 982MB

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    Badwolf_DW
    Badwolf_DWAuthor
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    Oct 15, 2018 3:24 PM UTC

    Yep this morning I have several auto creations! woot!

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    Greg_S.
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    Greg_S.Community ExpertCorrect answer
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    Oct 14, 2018 4:23 PM UTC

    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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    Homeboy
    Inspiring
    Oct 17, 2018 4:28 PM UTC

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

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    axelolympus
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    Nov 24, 2022 4:42 AM UTC

    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

     

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