Photo RAW 2023.5: Cataloged Folders "broken?"
Just installed ON1 Photo RAW 2023.5 on new Windows 11 system. Rushed into "Catalogs" based on "Why You Should Use Catalogs" articles and it seems to have been a mistake:
1) Told ON1 to Catalog the entire Drive where photos are stored. It seemed expedient at the time...
2) That was several DAYS ago, and the app is still consuming significant system resources - CPU and RAM - AND frequent Freezes when attempting even Browse photos. (To be Fair, neither the system NOR ON1 have ran continuously - but still over 12 hours / day, including 3 Run All Night sessions, which I hoped would allow it to finish up. No such luck.)
3) As far as I have discovered, there is NO WAY to MANAGE the "Sub-Folders" beneath a main Catalog - ?? (You must remove the Entire Catalog.)
4) Assuming 3) above is correct, is there any way to Remove the Main Catalog Folder (the Entire drive...), but to RETAIN & REUSE all the data that Photo RAW has been painstakingly compiling (over a matter of days...) - ?
5) Did read one Suggestion to TURN OFF the "AI Keywords" feature to speed things along. Would it safe to assume that doing so would REMOVE any Keywords which have already been assigned to photos?
Apologies for a Bunch of questions, but have found the existing documentation on this "Feature" to be sorely lacking - or perhaps it is merely well hidden?
Thanks in advance....
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1) This is the problem. You've told the program to examine every single file on that drive looking for any image files it finds regardless of what they are being used for. You want to Catalog just those folders that contain your photos.
2) Right-click on the Catalog that is being created and choose the Remove Cataloged Folder command. Right now the system is grabbing as much resources as it needs to do the job. This is tying up your hard drive, cpu, gpu, ram and vram. Other programs are having to wait their turn.
3) That is correct. The entire folder's contents are cataloged. This is why the Show Sub-folder Contents command only works with Cataloged folders.
4) No. You wouldn't want that anyhow. There's all kinds of cruft in there that doesn't relate to your photos.
5) No. Turning that feature off will not remove any Keywords, even those the AI has already assigned. It just stops the searching for the future.
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