I’m running XP-Pro, have 1 GB of RAM and 52 GB of free hard drive space. I have been using PhotoShop Elements 3.0
and left several windows open overnight that I was editing photos in.
During that overnight, Microsoft downloaded a patch and restarted my DELL. I can no longer launch Photoshop Elements.
Instead I get the upper quarter of my screen filled with what appears to be the ‘Organizer’ window and also the right hand
side and bottom (looking something like a backwards L) filled in, along with the word ‘searching’ and the familiar
hourglass. And it searches, and searches and nothing happens.
When I go to the Windows Task Manager, I get
‘Organizer-Photoshop Elements 3.0--Not responding’.
I went to the Program files and was able to come up with the following messages (all of which just serve to confuse me)
that say:
“There was a problem opening the catalog named ‘My Catalog’
Another User or application may have the catalog open, or one or more files may be missing, out of date, or damaged.
“[Microsoft] [ODBC Microsoft Access Driver) General error Unable to open registry key ‘Temporary (Volatile) Jet DSN for
process 0X544 Thread Ox59c DBC19b9b04 Jet.”
Attempt to compact and recover this catalog, then open again?”
I clicked on the YES button and got,
“OBDC Microsoft Access Drive Login Failed, Disk or Network Error.”
I then got:
“A problem was encountered during catalog recovery. Your catalog may be OK but if you experience problems with it that
can’t be resolved through the Recover catalog option or restarting your system you may need to restore this catalog from
a backup.”
Needless to say, I’m lost. My fear is that all of the cross references that I’ve done in the ‘Organizer’ section of Elements
will be lost and I’ll need to redo some 15,000 cross references. How can I get back to normal? I’ve also tried ‘System
restore’ to no avail.
Second Part of the story
I read somewhere that holding down the shift key while launching the application will lead to the catalog window--which it
did. I find that I have 3 catalogs there. One yields a window that says it needs converted and will give me another -1 copy,
this wasn't helpful. The next, which is the largest opens up beautifully I can open and close it repeatedly--problem almost
solved; it apparently is the -1 version that I originally imported from Elements 2. Almost, because it cuts off my pictures at
June 2005, somehow ignoring everything after that. How can I get it to recognize the other missing pictures? The third
catalog merely puts Organizer into the 'search' mode as I described above.
I know this is a long post but its all the information I have.
It does seem though that I can reimport items from My Pictures to Elements 3, and some come with tags! So appparently I can brute force this by reimporting some 10,000 items. How can I prevent this from recurring and is it fixed?
Thanks for any suggestions. |
