Photoshop Elements Organizer and Zoner Photo Studio tagging is brutally slow
I tried Zoner Free to try to get around Adobe, which was acting very slow. Unfortunately, Zoner was worse - faster for viewing, but unusable for tagging. The answer is: It's the network, stupid. I host all my photos on a central file server, which was just too slow for either Adobe or Zoner, Gigabit connections and RAID6 notwithstanding. The only solution is to move everything to a local drive. You can kind of forget about any kind of graceful migration from one photos location to another using Adobe Elements Organizer. I have never seen a program that has such brain-dead defaults and crappy file handling in my life. It's almost like they make it intentionally difficult for you to re-organize anything at all. Example: everyone says to "backup" and "restore" your Adobe catalog in order to move drives. Awkward, as the backup / restore functions take HOURS. Then, when you restore, you will probably check "Restore original file locat...