Ken,

Thank you very much for the quick response.  I believe that I have that

option checked but I will verify that shortly.  Since the latest import

created such a large number of duplicates - even duplicates for photos that

were imported last year - I have decided to restore my catalog, ensure that

the duplicates for prior years do not already exist and then closely

monitor the import process.  I will keep everyone up-to-date as to what I

find.  My estimated catalog restore time is 8 hours so my response will

take some time.

Michel,

Thank you for your suggestion.  As I was looking through the Elements 10

Folder Location Display I found that I had duplicates in other folders as

well.  I still do not know why this happened.  But to remedy the problem I

went through all 400+ folders and identified and removed all duplicates (I

finally found software that would identify the dups - the free version of

Digital Volcano's DuplicateCleaner) this was done in Windows Explorer;  I

then re-imported, in small batches, 17,000 + photos into Elements 10 - 99%

were not imported as they already where listed in the catalog; I followed

this by using Elements reconnect command to reconnect any missing files -

there was a very large number of missing files, the duplicates, which I

removed from the catalog (they had been removed from the disk in the first

step).  My catalog now reflects 17,461 photos which is very close to the

number of items on the disk.  This process took me about 3 days (15 hours)

to complete.  I will now closely monitor the number of photos on the camera

memory card, how many are imported and the number rejected as duplicates.

Once through this experience is sufficient.

A word of caution.  When I was trying to reconcile the number of

photographs in the Organizer Folder Location view to an independent count

of the number of photographs using Windows Explorer I discovered that the

Organizer Folder Location view reported stacks a one photo but Windows

counted each photo in the stack.  ie one stack of six photographs was

counted a one file in Elements but 6 files in Windows.  To get around this

I expanded all stacks before entering the Elements file view.

Bernard

To All,

I am back and extremely frustrated with Adobe Elements Organizer 10.  I

have invested many hours in re-organizing my photos and videos.  After I

was satisfied that I had all (most) of my photographs and video files

identified and in a structured file system I re-imported them all into a

new catalog, basically starting as if I never used Elements Organizer10.

All appeared to go well.  But my catalog/photos/videos are becoming

corrupted again.  If I import photos/videos and then delete them from the

memory card, do another shoot, import these into the Orgaizer all appears

to work well.  BUT, if I have photos/videos on the memory card and then

shoot other photos/videos when I  do an import all the photos/videos, new

and old, are imported.  The old photos/videos are renamed to have a '-1'

appended to the end of the file name.

This is making photo/video management extremely difficult and quite

annoying.  If I am doing something incorrectly I would like someone from

the Adobe team to advise me on the correct procedure.  If I am following

the correct procedure I would like someone from the Adobe team to focus on

this problem and provide a fix.  While this is not the high end CS product

line I believe that it should work as advertized.  This function worked in

previous versions therefore I did not expect to have this problem in the

newest version.

Bernard

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 4:33 PM, B. L. Bollettieri <

I have tried every suggestion and still the problem continues.  To add to

the confusion, if I import a batch with duplicates and then delete them

using the catalog function, the duplicates are removed from the catalog

view but the actual file is not deleted from the disk.

As I mentioned, I tried ever suggestion, but I do not always get the same

results that are reported.

I have deleted Photoshop Elements 10, Photoshop Premier 10 and Photoshop

Premier 10 Content from my machine.  I have scanned for any residual

program files and have removed them.  At this point my machine should know

nothing of the existence of Photoshop 10.  I plan to do nothing Photoshop

related for a day (a short respite) but then I will reload the Photoshop

Elements 10 Suite and try again

Bernard

Thank you for directing me to the manual uninstall steps.  I have completed

the steps and now expect my machine to be Abobe Organizer, Adobe Photoshop

Elements and Adobe Premier Elements free.  I am going to install the Adobe

products again and trust that the Organizer will function properly, without

the unintended action of re-importing already imported files.  This creates

unexpected and unwanted duplicates as well as increases file size.

I understand the function of not deleting the actual photograph files from

the disk, but when the option to delete the photos from the disk is

presented and chosen the files should be deleted.

I do not understand why a new install will not correct the problem which I

initially had - that of imported files being re-imported thereby creating

duplicates.

I hope that all works as expected, if not I will wait for a fix from

Adobe.  I will also re-review the Adobe Organizer 10 documentation to

ensure that I understand the capabilities as I was accustomed to working

with Adobe Organizer 7.

I will post the results.  If the Organizer does not re-import files

(functions like version 7) I will be satisfied and consider the issue

closed.  I the Organizer continues to create duplicates by re-importing

photographs I will consider the issue unresolved but closed

Bernard