Trying to delete

[Mr Graph]

I'm trying to delete a large number of images that got disconnected in rebuilding files after a disk crash.  I have one good connected original and several duplicate images from other folders.  I get this message when I check to delete from disk as well as from the catalog:  
"Analysis is currently running on the selected media.  Please try again afte some time."

Any thoughts on how to totally delete these images from catalog and disk?

[MichelBParis]

Two things:

First go to your preferences in the organizer and disable all automatic features (which include analysis). Restart the organizer.

Then, keep in mind that missing files only need to be deleted from the catalog, they can't be deleted from disk since your catalog can't find them.

Run a search for missing files. In the resulting dialog, use the small icon (3 horizontal bars) above the missing files list; this opens a menu which lets you: - select all missing files, then delete all missing files (from the catalog).

[Mr Graph]

Thanks so much for clarifying what I now see as obvious - can’t delete files that catalog doesn’t know where to find. Took the other steps and no problem deleting.

[bcsobrien]

Sorry to be a few years behind this, but I have the same question.  I am running Elements Organizer 2023, and trying to delete the many duplicated photos I have in the Library.  On quite a few of them I get the "Analysis is currently running on the selected media".  In my EO23 I don't see where, in the Preferences list, I would be able to disable all of the automatic features, as you mentioned back in 2020.  Is there an updated method to avoid the error message?

[Glenn 8675309 · Accepted solution]

Uncheck all the things the red arrows are pointing to in the ORGANIZER preference file.  All the thingds are in the media analysis tab.



I've never really understood users being so focused on duplicate photos.  I've got copies of copies and backups of various images-  I think It's a mistake to only have one copy of an image- What if the HDD the image is one goes bad?  No worries, just go to the other copy on the other hard drive.

Who cares if there are 10 copies of a photo of aunt edna strapped to the roof of the station wagon?  Not me.  OMG I have 10 copies of that one photo- so?   "Hey Bill, I noticed you have 5 copies of that Aunt Edna photo"  "Yeah, so what?"

"But I gotta save space"-- What for? If you arerunning out of space yo uare doing something wrong.
"I gotta keep my organizer organzied"- You do reallize no one in your family cares about your Organizer?
"I gotta keep track of my picutres of aunt edna"-- and do what with them?

[bcsobrien]

I'm not trying to save space!  But if I've got 10 pics of Aunt Edna, and they're not tagged as "Aunt Edna", and their time/date metadata stamps don't match because they've been imported from another source with differing metadata, then I've got Aunt Edna scattered all over my library.  I like my pics in chronological order to make them easier to find & use.  But thanks for the help.