ScrapGram Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 I just posted a question about my actions disappearing and now I have another question. I am using Windows Vista and PSE 9. I have my photos and digital scrapbook supplies in two seperate catalogues in the PSE organizer. Between the two, I have 12,000+ images on the harddrive and catalogued in PSE. PSE is incredibly slow and sometimes does some pretty weird things. I have everything backed up on an external hard drive. If I deleted everything from the computer hard drive (Toshiba laptop - 4 years old) and just used my external hard drive whenever I scrapbook, would that help PSE run better? Or is the problem that I have so many things catalogued in PSE? Thanks........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PBarnes Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 I found that PSE Editor slowed way down when I used the Organizer. That's one of the reasons I changed to Picasa. I can tell you that I have way more than 12,000 images. I keep my photos on my hard drive but the scrapping supplies are on the EHD. You might find that PSE works faster if you free up some space on your hard drive by putting your things on the EHD. I'm not tech guru though. Just my 2 cents worth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScrapGram Posted September 20, 2011 Author Share Posted September 20, 2011 I am not familiar with Picassa at all, have just seen it mentioned several times. Is is just software for cataloguing photos, etc? It is just so easy to transfer items from the PSE organizer to the editor! When you use Picassa to organize your supplies, I assume once you decide what you want to use, you open the items in the PSE editor from the files on your hard drive (or EHD)? How expensive is Picassa and do you get it on-line or at a retail store? Thanks a bunch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matadors and a Princess Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 I don't use the Organizer very much for scrapbooking. I have Windows 7...but Vista also shows a "thumbnail" of the image in Windows Explorer. I usually just drag it from Windows Explorer and drop it into PSE. It opens right up. I love the organizer for tagging stuff...but then I save the tags to the images and do all the work in from Windows Explorer into the PSE Editor. By the way, I have over 24,000 images in the Organizer...but I don't have any of my scrapbooking supplies in there...that's just photos (and scanned old photos)! I'm working with PSE9, and it does seem to be a little shaky with Windows 7. Too many new things all at once, maybe? I believe Picasa is free. If you search for it on the internet you should be able to locate it easily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScrapGirlsRo Posted October 3, 2011 Share Posted October 3, 2011 Picasa ia free software by Google. Because Google is so good at searching and finding things, Picasa finds all of the images on your computer and shows the, to you fast. You can have them displayed how you wish.i use the tree option so that can locate my folders as usual. When you are in Picasa, you can scroll through all of your folders lightning fast. And it's is super easy to search for things, too. A lot of people use it instead of the PSE organizer. To get it, just search for Picasa and you'll get the free download. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenrou Posted November 26, 2011 Share Posted November 26, 2011 My pc would probably not even run with that many photos on it. I'm in a constant struggle to keep my pc cleaned out so PSE will run faster. I keep most on EHD's and DVDs. Jean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victoria TX Posted November 26, 2011 Share Posted November 26, 2011 May need to do that at some point! Re: Picasa, I will note as I did on another thread that I spent many hours carefully categorizing everything (photos by person, papers, embellishments, brads, frames, ribbons etc.) in Picasa and backed up my entire Picasa folder to my EHD. Unfortunately, I was not successful in bringing forward all the categories to my new computer so all that work was lost. I've been reluctant to invest that much time again and have heard that the PSE Organizer really slows things down so have just been searching in my Scrapbooking folder with Windows Explorer for now. Most designers are fairly good about identifying things as brads, ribbons, papers, color, etc., in the file names so that helps, but certainly not as nice as Picasa while I was using it. Victoria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naninca Posted November 27, 2011 Share Posted November 27, 2011 I learned recently that Picasa's face recognition tags will NOT "stick" if you have a crash, or need to move files. To remedy that, select all the thumbnails of "Ben" and apply a keyword or tag. That way, it's part of the file. I'll add that I LOVE Picasa for photos. It pulls from all my drives, EHD, network and hard, and organizes them all by date. Sweet! Nancy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smiles Posted November 27, 2011 Share Posted November 27, 2011 Nancy, do you mean a Picassa tag, or another form? I would hate to think of all that work lost! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naninca Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 Gayle, just within Picasa. It's quick and easy to name the whole batch at a time! Nancy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smiles Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 Gayle, just within Picasa. It's quick and easy to name the whole batch at a time! Nancy Thanks, Nancy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victoria TX Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 I still have the files on my EHD from the old computer (I'm trying to recall...were they perhaps .pal files?), but haven't been able to figure out how to bring them forward to the new computer. I thought that it might be because I moved some of the folders to a different location, but even the ones that remained in the same folders didn't work when I moved from my old Vista computer to the new Windows 7 computer. If someone knows how to do this, I would love to hear the technique. My Google search wasn't very successful. |;-) Victoria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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