Yes the contact sheet. I am using sort by capture time, if I then click on one image to preview and then close the preview window, the contact sheet resorts over and over before allowing me to work again.
I just tried to reproduce the issue on my system and it doesn't re-sort more than one time for me. What must I do to reproduce the problem on my end? Do you have multiple folders open in a single contact sheet?
Kirk,
I also experience this problem, but have been hesitant to report it since I can't reproduce it at will. In fact, I'm looking at it right now. I have a contact sheet open with 746 files from a single folder. It is sorted by capture time. Now preview one or more images, then Esc from the preview window. In the status bar the "Sort in progress" message appears, and the progress bar does its thing. On my system (Athlon 64X2 Dual Core 4600 2.4ghz 2gb ram) it takes about 6 seconds until I can do anything with PM. Here's another weird symptom: if I jump back and forth between PM and another program (e.g., to/from Firefox as I am writing up this post) then whenever I return to PM by clicking on its window, the sort operation is again executed! The only thing in common I've found when this problem occurs is that I've been doing extensive work with PM, followed by opening a contact sheet with many images, typically >500. The sort time is proportional to the size of the contact sheet. For example, today I've been sorting, classifying, and cleaning up about 3000 images using PM. The problem showed up when I opened the folder containing 746 images. I typically sort by capture time, caption, and filename; the problem doesn't occur with filename. I've also seen the multiple sort symptom described by Ginger but not in 4.5.1, only in prior versions. Occasionally, shutting down PM and restarting it cures the problem, but more often than not I have to reset my system to make PM usable again with large contact sheets.
My tests were also with a USB drive, so I opened a second large contact sheet (1492 photos) from a folder on the internal C: drive. There is still a delay when exiting the preview window, about half the time, and the sort progress bar quickly flashes. If the first contact sheet (from the USB drive) is closed, then the delay becomes minor, but you can still see the sort progress bar flash by. So it appears that a redundant sort is taking place whenever you return to PM, from either the preview or from another program. And the USB interface might well be contributing to a major delay in that process. There shouldn't be a need to resort every time, should there?
Jim
