PM Crashes when Searching Using 'Find' and 'Find/Replace'

[Jerry]

I am running Photo Mechanic version 4.6.3 and I run Win 7 64-bit on my Lenovo laptop.  I am trying to replace a hierarchical keyword separator ';' with '|' and everytime a run the 'Find' or 'Find'Replace' PM crashes; the dialog window header indicates 'not responding'.  The folder that I'm searching has about 20,000 images in it.  Is the folder too large?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Jerry

[Kirk Baker]

Jerry,

I am running Photo Mechanic version 4.6.3 and I run Win 7 64-bit on my Lenovo laptop.  I am trying to replace a hierarchical keyword separator ';' with '|' and everytime a run the 'Find' or 'Find'Replace' PM crashes; the dialog window header indicates 'not responding'.  The folder that I'm searching has about 20,000 images in it.  Is the folder too large?

20,000 is a lot of files.  Until all of the metadata for the 20,000 files is loaded, the Find/Replace will take a long time to complete.  Perhaps more than 10 minutes.  It hasn't crashed.  It's just busy doing the search.  Just let it complete, or select a smaller number of files and do them in batches.

-Kirk

[Jerry]

Hi Kirk,

Thank you for your quick reply.  Yes, patience was the answer.  Didn't realize how much of an effort is required; think I'll also try smaller batches to avoid the long stretches.

Jerry