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spondie
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October 11, 2021
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Elements 2022: Elements Auto Creations runaway process

  • October 11, 2021
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I couldn't find a group where this fit so I am putting it here.
I updated from Photoshop/Premier Elements from 2021 to 2022 (windows version) last week.
I leave my PC on 7x24 and this morning when I signed in, it seemed to be overly sluggish. 
Looking at the task manager, I noted that the 2022 Elements Auto Creation process was taking 89% of my memory and not giving it back.

I contacted support to see if there was a new setting to contol the behaviors of this process and there wasn't.

I never noted this behavior in the 2021 version of the products and updated my catalog to 2022 at installation.
To get the resources back, I was about to kill the process in Windows task manager, but my PC lost the display and had to be rebooted.

It would be nice if you gave the end users some control of this process (like only run with screensaver or defining off hours)

Thanks,

Mark

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Bill SpragueCommunity Expert
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October 11, 2021

Without knowing more, my guess is that your computer is updating the Organizer catalog with some of the 'smart' features.   Open Organizer, select Edit > Preferences, pick Media-Analysis and uncheck all the boxes.   If you want those features, leave your computer running and it will eventually catch up!

 

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spondieAuthor
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October 12, 2021


 
Thanks for the reply Bill.  I thought of that, but do like auto create feature and have used with every version.  This is the only one that I have seen which doesn't seem to want to give back resources.  The release is only a few days old so I would suspect a bug.  I have had my computer on day and night waiting for it to catch up since I installed 10/8/2021, but every morning it looks like this.  


Thanks Bill,  

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Bill SpragueCommunity Expert
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October 12, 2021

spondie,

 

Based only on random discussions here, the background processing will finish.   I would not yet call it a "bug".  It has been part of Organizer for too many versions to be suspect for now. 

 

You can also turn it off in the Windows "Startup Apps" dialog.   

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