Sadly, I just downgraded back to AS1

[thomascheng]

I'm on the latest version. I get the occasional crash, but for the most part, my images are looking great and I just went thru 1000 images. Deleting workflow is pretty slow.

[lacey]

I deleted my catalog file, and had to re-enter my SN to got the program to run without freezing. I suspect there may be a compatibility issue between ASP1-2 catalogs.

[EDIT] :: The problem was an excessively large TIF file.

I encountered this problem again after deleting the old ASP-1 catalog, as described in my original post below. I discovered after much sleuthing that ASP-2 was hanging up trying to create a preview of a 257MB uncompressed TIF file. ASP-2 gave no indication as to which file it was trying to read, nor gave me the option to cancel the operation. (can you fix this, guys?)

I tried saving the huge TIF in compressed LZW, reducing it to 90MB, but ASP-2 would still hang up on it, with the quirky unnamed yellow folders as described below. SOLUTION: Turned off auto-preview creation in preferences, closed the catalog, closed ASP-2, moved the huge file out of the import folder, opened ASP-2, opened the catalog, and I could make previews again (enabling auto-preview creation).

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[ORIGINAL COMMENT] :: There might indeed be a compatibility issue between ASP 1 & 2 catalogs.

Tried to load an existing ASP-1 catalog, but only the library catalog name would display. Tried to import into an existing catalog, as well as create a new catalog with the old one closed. ASP-2 stalled several times and would display nameless yellow folders in the Library, but a couple of folder names mysteriously appeared, seemingly from my clicking around, but I couldn't reproduce this effect (a miracle?). No folder showed previews except the original imported root folder when "show subfolders" was selected.

My solution: Closed ASP-2, moved existing catalogs to another HDD location, reopened ASP-2 and created a new catalog in the now empty default catalog location. Importing folders works fine. The library shows named folders, each folder shows previews. Old catalogs can be deleted.

Now, to see what else the program can do.

[MarkZ]

People should post here if they try the latest version of AS2 and find it actually is functioning well enough for the rest of us to try switching again. We should do round-robin with who gets to try the next version

After a couple of versions the program hanging and crashing was largely corrected, speed became reasonable for me. In preview (I think they call it Standard view), moving from one image to the next is painfully slow compared to all other programs I've used.

I'm still using ASP2 but hate the UI - I can hardly see the icons and wording. It has to be a big turnoff for most users.