Excessive Heat!!! > PSE Organizer

[fotografffic]

I'm using the 2018 version of PS Elements and trying to learn the Organizer. First time user of PSE.

When running Organizer features such as finding duplicate photos and face recognition (face recognition can run 2-3 hours or more) my notebook becomes excessively hot, and I mean excessively hot! The fan runs non stop. You can hardly touch the bottom. This never happens with other programs.

I have a Dell notebook that I bought about four months ago: 8 gb ram, i5 7th generation processor and 256GB Solid State Drive. Most recent update of Windows 10.

Has anyone else experienced this problem? Is their a solution? I sure hope so!

[MichelBParis · Accepted solution]

gailbj  wrote

I'm using the 2018 version of PS Elements and trying to learn the Organizer. First time user of PSE.

When running Organizer features such as finding duplicate photos and face recognition (face recognition can run 2-3 hours or more) my notebook becomes excessively hot, and I mean excessively hot! The fan runs non stop. You can hardly touch the bottom. This never happens with other programs.

I have a Dell notebook that I bought about four months ago: 8 gb ram, i5 7th generation processor and 256GB Solid State Drive. Most recent update of Windows 10.

Has anyone else experienced this problem? Is their a solution? I sure hope so!

I have offered some advice in your initial questions in the DpReview forum:

Excessive Heat!!! > PS Elements Organizer: Retouching Forum: Digital Photography Review

It seems you don't really care about face recognition, and that is the main source of overheating.

By the way, you would have the same CPU usage with Lightroom or any other CPU intensive software.

The link I gave you (which Toermalijn repeated) for coolers should help you. Did you try to post your question in Dell forums?

I don't care for face recognition. I do a lot of genealogy and family history, and I what I want is people tagging which is totally different.

[fotografffic]

No, I really don't care about face recognition...I turned it off after the second "heat wave." I've found it a waste of time especially since the same exact faces frequently appear 2-6 times in every person's stack.

I do like the tree and list folder views in the Media area.

Otherwise, I find some of the menu commands difficult to figure out, and I've spent a lot of time reading the help files. Other than the photo explorer in the Media area, don't think I'll have much use for the organizer, especially because when I add, delete or move folders or images in the Windows Pictures folders they are not reflected in the organizer without some special menu command (Import Media).

Not sure I'll post my question in the Dell forums since I don't intend to use the Organizers cpu draining functions.