Really Slow Opening up.

[Hesmith1029]

Just had an interesting experience. Left PS up and running overnight, did not shut down when I went to dinner. This morning I resumed on my endless cleanup since moving from Adobe Organizer. PS was running very sluggish. So I shut in the convention Windows manner with X in upper right. Restarted, After 30 seconds no program visible on screen but Resource Monitor showed it with 1 core being maxed and no disk I/O. So I killed the process. Waited a bit then restarted. Again 1 core was being maxed. After about 10 seconds no disk I/O. But this time I just waited. After about 2 minutes the user interface appeared on the screen. It told me I should compact. Doing that now.

Why would it be so slow in opening up the user interface? Something doesn't feel good. Any suggestions as to what I should be looking into to make sure things are not going bad on me?

Thanks
Herb Smith

[Hert]

How you describe it my first thought is a missing network drive and Psu has to wait for the OS to report the drive as missing.

[Hesmith1029]

My instance of PS does not use any drives on any of the other computers on my network. Occasionally one of those other devices goes off line. But since PS entirely local to the machine it is installed on I don't see how that would impact things. The behavior of other programs on my machine did appear impacted.
My best guess at this point is that it was trying to access all 136596 photos in the database before opening up.

[Hesmith1029]

Think I figured out what is happening. Drag a month from the timeline into filter at the upper left filter. Center display now reads "in timeline (2019-07) and has 211 photos. Now click on Folders, select the top drive entry (E:\ in my case). I now have the same 211 photos in the center and file folder in the left box. So some work on moving stuff the correct folders by drag and drop. Add some tags.

Now exit the program without clearing any filters.

Restart. PS will not remember the filter setting, but will remember that you were in folders with drive E: select. It will attempt to open the center display with all 136,000 photos. This takes a VERY long time.