Catalogue problem

Forum|Forum|9 years ago
February 14, 2017
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Whenever I load photos or video clips onto my PC, I find Elements has automatically inserted them into a catalogue, even though I have not imported them through Organiser. Quite often I have no intention of opening or using these files in APE, so when I next use APE, I then have to remove them from the catalogue. Is there any way to stop this happening?

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Steve Grisetti

Legend

The Organizer is a media management program that's designed to help you catalog and locate videos, stills and audio files on your computer. It sounds like it is doing exactly what it is designed to do.

If you'd like it not to automatically add files to your media catalog, you just need to disable the watched folders on your computer. How you do this depends on which version of the program you're using -- but basically you switch the Organizer to Folder View, right-click on any folders that are indicated as Watched or Managed Folders and select the option to set them to Unmanaged.

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sydhsydhAuthor

Inspiring

Thanks for that Steve. I have checked the managed folders and there was just the standard Windows Photos folder on C: drive shown. This is not a folder where I import anything. I imported video clips today into a V:drive folder ready for editing and they appeared in the catalog. These and other files are just "in transit" files that I do not keep in my collection. The folder on V:drive is definitley not managed.

I have unticked the "managed folders" even though just the C:drive folder was listed so I will see what happens now, but it appears no matter where the files are imported to, they are added to the catalog.

BTW - I am using Version 15 Premiere & Photoshop Elements package.

MichelBParis

Legend

If you use the Elements downloader, that means YOU want to register the files in the catalog as well as copy the meisa files on your drive(s).

If you only want to copy the files from your camera to any drive, use your OS for that, not the downloader.

The downloader offers two choices:

- "Get photos for camera or card reader" = implies copying the files to your drive AND registering/indexing them in the catalog.

- "Get photos from filles or folders" = implies registering/indexing them in the catalog.

The 'watched folders' feature may be used in the latter context.

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