Jose, the last time something similar to this came up as an issue on the forum, we learned the Browse feature had had a very large folder full of images left open at the time Elements was last shut down. Generating the thumbnails was choking the program.
Before trying anything else, try deleting the Preference folder, and it might clear up the problem. (No guarantees, of course!)
With Elements closed, click on the start up icon and then make a QUICK grab for the Control, Alt, and Shift keys. Hold all three down until you get a screen asking if you want to delete Settings. Say Yes. A new preference folder will build as Elements continues to launch.
This might not clear up the problem, but it’s a good place to start. Please post back and update us.
Thank you Beth, I tried your suggestion to delete the Preference folder, I did get the screen asking if I wanted to delete Settings. I clicked YES. Still when I click the Browse for files the PSE 2.0 crashes and it does not respond. I can also detect that the Browse feature is still generating a lot of thumbnails. I guess the solution is to stop the Browse feature from generating so many thumbnails. How is this done?
Jose,
Elements’ Browser will generate one thumbnail for every image in the current folder. If you have a great number of images in the folder, then Elements will make a great number of thumbnails.
You could try creating subfolders and portioning your images into them so that there is a smaller number of images for Browser to display at any given time.
Byron
I guess I wasn’t as awake at 5:30 in the morning as I thought I was, because I forgot to give you the same advice Byron just did – create subfolders on your hard drive. Deleting the Preference folder was just a temporary fix to keep Elements from crashing.
You might also want to consider getting some kind of album software like Photoshop Album and doing your browsing from there. It generates thumbnails and then stores them in cache so they don’t have to be created each time you want to review image files in a folder. And you can open them automatically in Elements when you find one you want to work on. Personally, I make use of both systems. I keep the number of images in each folder fairly small, and I also use an album program when I want to be able to review a large number of files.
