PC unresponsive when PM ingesting photos

[stulandr]

I'm running PM 6.0 Build 4851 on Windows 10.  When I ingest photos from an SD Card via Lexar USB3.0 Dual Slot Reader, my PC becomes unresponsive - mouse freezes, keyboard freezes until the ingest is complete. 

The ingest dialog stays on the screen and I can see photos being imported in the contact sheet, i have to wait for the ingest to finish before i can use the PC.  I can't even cancel the ingest as the mouse is unresponsive.

This only started happening after an update (prior to build 4851).

Thanks.

[Kirk Baker]

I'm running PM 6.0 Build 4851 on Windows 10.  When I ingest photos from an SD Card via Lexar USB3.0 Dual Slot Reader, my PC becomes unresponsive - mouse freezes, keyboard freezes until the ingest is complete. 

The ingest dialog stays on the screen and I can see photos being imported in the contact sheet, i have to wait for the ingest to finish before i can use the PC.  I can't even cancel the ingest as the mouse is unresponsive.

This only started happening after an update (prior to build 4851).

There should be nothing that a user-level application like Photo Mechanic can do that should virtually halt your system.  It sounds like a driver problem to me.  Did anything change in regards to your mouse or USB drivers recently?  For trouble-shooting help, I suggest contacting our support folks at:

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[stulandr]

Thanks Kirk.  I think it's probably a USB issue and I've noticed that it happens for a fraction of a second when the SD card is inserted in the card reader before PM loads.