"Clyde Torres" wrote in message
This brings a question to mind. I never use the Organizer Catalog feature of Adobe PE 3. I only use the Edit and Enhance Photos feature, which if I bring up the File Browser, I get thumbprints of all the files in the folder, and I can work on them with the appropriate tools. I keep thinking that the Catalog feature is duplicating photo files somewhere else and thus using more memory. Is this true? Whenever I work on files, PE 3 always asks me if I want to fire up the Organizer Catalog feature. I always say no. Am I missing something other than slide shows?
Clyde Torres
I think you are missing a lot.
As to overhead, there are no ‘copies’, but there are catalog files. For my 17Gb or so worth of pix, the total catalog space is less than 200Mb. No big deal.
As to what it can do, the best thing it did for me was to offer calendar
[time-line] based cataloging of all my pix based on internal file dates, all
nicely sorted regardless of the camera or what directory I had put it in
[usually based on what camera to avoid name collision]. Add to that the quick
fix [with auto backup copy], ability to add user defined tags to allow selective display [including a ‘hide’ tag so I can easily ignore ‘test’ shots without deleting them], and it’s quite a handy tool.
Be aware that the first time you use it, particularly if you import a lot of pix at once, there is a lot of background processing going on that can slow both the organizer and the pc itself. Once the material is cataloged, the delay issue goes away.