Generate Auto Creations will not stay off - Elements 2023

[Leanna30]

Hello,

I have Elements 2023 and in the Media Analysis area it has a Generate Auto Creations tick box.  I do not want to use this but it will not stay unticked. In fact the only option of the 4 under Media Analysis that will stay unticked is - Show Smart tags and Auto Curate. How can I turn the other 3 off.

From reading this forum is seems this is still a problem in the PSE 2025 version, however I cannot find anything about how to fix this for PSE 2023.  

Auto Creations slows things down and stops me from deleting files etc as it is always doing something.  Very frustrating.

[Michael B. UK]

Hello Leanna

I had a similar issue. I found this worked for me, The path will be slightly different for you, C:\Users\yourname\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Elements Organizer\25.0\logs

"Adobe support have looked, they took control of my PC via the agent chat and tried a few things, things that I had done many times before. The results were the same, no tags. Then they clicked the 'Reset Face Analysis' button. It's a good job I had backed up my catalog folder before they did that as I would've lost years’ worth of tagging.

 After about 30 mins they said my only fix would be to start again, from scratch as my catalog is likely corrupt and unfixable.
 So I tried again, I uninstalled everything Adobe as my  Organizer > File > Preferences weren’t saving and even Adobe reader was crashing.
 It was during the reinstall using the default location that I found this log file:
C:\Users\mickb\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Elements Organizer\25.0\logs
in it was an error message stating it could not open files

C:\ProgramData\Adobe\Elements Organizer\25.0\CAHeadless\AutoCreationsConfig.xml and AutoCreatorPrefs.xml
I changed the 25.0 folder permissions and all child objects to allow full control to users and restarted the app.
Result, I have my smart tags back and also my preferences now stick.

I'm so pleased!"