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georgef85037473
Inspiring
February 23, 2019
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Speed of Flattening in PhotoShop Elements 2019

  • February 23, 2019
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Recently the "flattening" operation in Organizer took a serious turn for the worse.  Any suggestions?

I've played with many of the "Preference" options that I thought might affect this operation, but with no success.

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Correct answer MichelBParis

georgef85037473  wrote

Mike, Thank you for the prompt response - will try your advice on batches.  I believe I have 16 GB of memory available.

Something recently got noticeably worse.  I was wondering if any of the background PhotoShop Elements processes (not all exceedingly helpful) could be getting in the way - and I could improve flattening performance (typically done one at a time after editing) could be improved by shutting them down.

Thanks again.

Theoretically, avoiding background tasks is a very good idea. However, the intrinsic slowness of deletion will be still there. In such cases I shut down any other running application (Internet browers, music...) but I often find that external processes, especially from my Avast antivirus, are taking too much resources. In older versions, the result was often worse, deleting was not only slow, it generally failed after a few hundreds deletes...

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liana francois
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June 28, 2021

photoshop speed art

 

MichelBParis
MichelBParis
Legend
February 23, 2019

Flattening means deleting.

Deleting many files has always been one of the slowest features of the organizer. Nothing new and you can't do anything about it, especially if you are low in RAM.  Try smaller batches.

georgef85037473
georgef85037473Author
Inspiring
February 23, 2019

Mike, Thank you for the prompt response - will try your advice on batches.  I believe I have 16 GB of memory available.

Something recently got noticeably worse.  I was wondering if any of the background PhotoShop Elements processes (not all exceedingly helpful) could be getting in the way - and I could improve flattening performance (typically done one at a time after editing) could be improved by shutting them down.

Thanks again.

MichelBParis
MichelBParisCorrect answer
Legend
February 23, 2019

georgef85037473  wrote

Mike, Thank you for the prompt response - will try your advice on batches.  I believe I have 16 GB of memory available.

Something recently got noticeably worse.  I was wondering if any of the background PhotoShop Elements processes (not all exceedingly helpful) could be getting in the way - and I could improve flattening performance (typically done one at a time after editing) could be improved by shutting them down.

Thanks again.

Theoretically, avoiding background tasks is a very good idea. However, the intrinsic slowness of deletion will be still there. In such cases I shut down any other running application (Internet browers, music...) but I often find that external processes, especially from my Avast antivirus, are taking too much resources. In older versions, the result was often worse, deleting was not only slow, it generally failed after a few hundreds deletes...

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