Speed up watch folders

Thanks. That explains it. I'd like to say that it is rather crushing to me that it works that way.

jdfan538 wrote: In the past, whenever a photo was dropped into a watched folder, it showed up immediately in my PSE organzier. Since I have installed PSE 15, it can take a ridiculously long time before it shows up in my organizer. Hours. The next day. Too long. This is always an issue, but becomes especially important when I scan in a batch of photos and want to immediately edit them. Since they don't show up in the organizer for hours, sometimes I then go in an add them in manually (File/Get Photos/From Files and Folders). But I found out that creates duplicates when the watched folder later adds them in again. How can I get back that fast time when a watched folder adds photos to the organizer? I have Windows 10, in case you need to know that. Thanks!

I don't use watched folders except for special purposes.

The main reason is that in all previous versions, the result practically NEVER showed up immediately in my PSE organizer as you say; they appeared at random, sometimes quickly, sometimes after a long time.

The idea to search from the start of the organizer is a good one, and it seems to work well in my case.

The other reason not to use the feature is that it's so much faster to simply start a new 'import' from your all library or from the folders trees you know that new pictures could be added. The import feature does not import  already present files.

Another reason to think twice before using the feature is that the organizer may be starting a number of heavy background tasks like checking for missing files, indexing faces or locations. There are a lot of complaints about the new versions being slow for that reason. I can tell you I have no speed problem with an ordinary hardware setup; I don't use face recognition, geotagging and I have disabled all background tasks like smart tags.