momtotwo wrote:
My question is how many photos will Organizer hold? Now, I realize it is not really holding the photo merely a thumbnail that is pointing to the actual photo location. I thought if that was the case, it could hold an endless amount of "thumbnails".
Brenda
You are right that the catalog contains both pointers and indexes for your photo location and their properties as well as a thumbnail cache.
A catalog with more than 100,000 items is a big one, but there has been reports of catalogs of twice that size.
In your situation, you could expect a catalog size of around 0,5 GB and a cache of 3 GB. That is manageable with good responsiveness of the organizer. Of course, backups will take hours, so you might consider other backup strategies than the one included in the organizer.
For your other problems, could you tell more about your computer and OS ? What happens exactly when you try to 'get photos and videos' from files and folders ?