Catalog woes
Jonathan
doubt but when I point it to my directory where I store my scanned images -
there are several sub-directories as well - it takes about 30 minutes and
hogs the processor before allowing me to do anything - unsurprisingly I
haven't used it and have made do with Paint Shop Pro and so on.... Now the
problem is either lousy programming, lack of memory or a set-up error. I
cant find anything in Ccorel's so-called knowledgebase that helps. I have
gigabits of disk-space free and a modest SiS 300/305 video adapter which
came with the ACER I am driving and 128MB RAM. Since PSP loads up quickly
and allows me to scan the directory and manipulate my files I sort of feel
the problem is more likely to be within Corel but I'd love any advice anyone
can give.
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Jonathan Reddaway
R.Way Partners - London Office
Joell Haugan
Does that help?
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Jonathan
this message but I had opened Corel to investigate and that caused a system
crash). The View Menu only gives four options Toolbar Status Bar Color
Palette and Notebook. The Notebook opens in Guides and clicking on Get
Image from Files or catalogue leads you to whatever directory you are
using - the 252 objects in my directory are 11 file folders and 241 files.
The systems then starts to read the files - which are listed with just an
icon and the file name in the vertical window on the left of the desktop -
the mouse cursor blinks in time with the disk activity light so it is
clearly reading in the information - I might almost live with it at the
first time but it does this each time I load up and quite often the whole
system freezes. I have reloaded the software and as I mentioned the PSP
catalogue works a treat...
Jonathan
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Jonathan
Color Palette and Notebook and they are all checked... This is irrespective
of whether I have the Catalog or Guides tab active in Notebook. WHen I
navigate to the folder I want to use it quickly starts to list the contents
(252 objects of which 11 folders and 241 files making 114MB). The folders
are represented with a folder icon and the other files are simply listed
with various icons but not thumbnails.
It is doing it as I write and of course the whole system has slowed to a
crawl...
Jonathan
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Joell Haugan
Jonathan wrote:
> Thanks Joell, The only options in View that I have are Toolbar, Status Bar,
> Color Palette and Notebook and they are all checked... This is irrespective
> of whether I have the Catalog or Guides tab active in Notebook. WHen I
> navigate to the folder I want to use it quickly starts to list the contents
> (252 objects of which 11 folders and 241 files making 114MB). The folders
> are represented with a folder icon and the other files are simply listed
> with various icons but not thumbnails.
>
> It is doing it as I write and of course the whole system has slowed to a
> crawl...
>
Unfortunately, I don't have PhotoHouse 5 to test with.... but try this.
Hit CTRL-ALT-DEL and look for a program/service running that is chewing
up your resources but is not PHotohouse.
Also, have you tried a workaround of opening windows Explorer and simply
dragging your images from it onto the Photohouse working area?
Jonathan
The workaround is perfect! Thanks for that.
As regards checking what process is working - I already tried that - when I
open PhotoHouse without going to the catalog function everything is OK and
none of the other processes seem to suffer. As soon as I try to read from a
directory - even one with say 3 or 4 files - then all hell breaks loose and
the system freezees while the disk whirrs away reading in stuff - even
ctrl+alt+del doesn't bring up the program/service screen.
Jonathan
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Joell Haugan
Jonathan wrote:
> The workaround is perfect! Thanks for that.
>
> As regards checking what process is working - I already tried that - when I
> open PhotoHouse without going to the catalog function everything is OK and
> none of the other processes seem to suffer. As soon as I try to read from a
> directory - even one with say 3 or 4 files - then all hell breaks loose and
> the system freezees while the disk whirrs away reading in stuff - even
> ctrl+alt+del doesn't bring up the program/service screen.
>
On the other hand, did you register your software with Corel? If so,
there may be some technical support. Check the documentation on the CD.
I'm afraid without having Photohouse5 myself I can't really troubleshoot
it properly. Photohouse isn't sold retail at all (as far as i know) but
only produced to be bundled with scanners, etc.
Jonathan
Yes I did register it but I fear time has passed and so I am outside the
free period. It was just one of those things - I was away for most of the
summer and late autumn... I suppose I can try them but I expect I won't get
very far.
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