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Hi group,
I’m using Photoshop Album 2 and have about 1800 photos catalogued. The other day I went to access a particular image through Album and my PC crashed. This appears to have corrupted part of my Photoshop Album database.
Now, each time I click on certain tags, Album freezes and can only be exited forcibly (Windows XP). I’ve tried getting the offending image out of the database by deleting the relevant tags, but as one of the tags causing problems is fairly generic, I’m going to have to totally mullah my database in order to do this.
I think I know which image is causing problems, now how do I delete all traces of it from the database?
I’ve tried moving it elsewhere and forcing Album to Reconnect it, then when it can’t find it telling it to Remove it from the database, but the problem persists. Either I’m not finding the right image, or some dodgy corrupted remnant of it is remaining in the index.
Somebody’s bound to say "use the backup" – well, the last CD backup of the database has the same corruption in it, and I’ve not exported the database from Album for a while – my own fault I know, but for some bizarre reason I trusted Adobe to write the database well enough that it wouldn’t go round corrupting.
I’ve tried Catalog>Recover but to no avail. After going to all the effort of cataloguing my entire digital collection of 1800 files, I’m having a serious sense-of-humour failure at the prospect of having to do it again.
Any recommendations gratefully received.
Thanks,
David
I’m using Photoshop Album 2 and have about 1800 photos catalogued. The other day I went to access a particular image through Album and my PC crashed. This appears to have corrupted part of my Photoshop Album database.
Now, each time I click on certain tags, Album freezes and can only be exited forcibly (Windows XP). I’ve tried getting the offending image out of the database by deleting the relevant tags, but as one of the tags causing problems is fairly generic, I’m going to have to totally mullah my database in order to do this.
I think I know which image is causing problems, now how do I delete all traces of it from the database?
I’ve tried moving it elsewhere and forcing Album to Reconnect it, then when it can’t find it telling it to Remove it from the database, but the problem persists. Either I’m not finding the right image, or some dodgy corrupted remnant of it is remaining in the index.
Somebody’s bound to say "use the backup" – well, the last CD backup of the database has the same corruption in it, and I’ve not exported the database from Album for a while – my own fault I know, but for some bizarre reason I trusted Adobe to write the database well enough that it wouldn’t go round corrupting.
I’ve tried Catalog>Recover but to no avail. After going to all the effort of cataloguing my entire digital collection of 1800 files, I’m having a serious sense-of-humour failure at the prospect of having to do it again.
Any recommendations gratefully received.
Thanks,
David
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