Thanks Bob. Your solution helped me. (Since Picture Mgr was so slow to open,
and an office "repair" didn't help, I was trying to uninstall and reinstall
it with Office Pro 2003; it doesn't show up separately in add/remove, and I
couldn't even find an exe file for it. But your solution superceded the need
to do all that anyway. - Christopher

"Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote:

> Hi Suedon,
>
> When shared/network/mapped drives are not avaialable within Office it can result in slowdowns in a number of places. Some because
> Office 'remembers' and uses recently used locations, some because Windows does the same. With Office 2003 Picture Manager be
> careful when looking at folders that you are looking at a shortcut and not an actual folder (both are deletable from inside Picture
> Manager).
>
> With Picture Manager not running locate the OIScatalog.cag file on your PC and open it in Notepad, delete the line that has the
> particular folder.
>
> <<"suedon" <suedon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:D7A03F74-19B6-4F7A-A48E-187C586050EA@microsoft.com...
> If you edit a photo on a network drive or share on another machine a
> "shortcut" is automatically created.
>
> Subsequent startups of Picture manager are very slow if the network resource
> is not available. You are unable to delete the "shortcut" from the llist.
>
> How does one report such bugs to M/S and get a fix? >>
> --
> I hope this helped you,
>
> Bob Buckland ?:-)
> MS Office system products MVP
>
> >>*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends<<
>
> LINKS to the 2007 Office System
>
> 1. Free MS Office 2007 book from MS Press, 213 pages:
> http://microsoft.com/learning/office...oksfrommspress
>
> 2.. Office 2007 Beta 2 Online Test Drive, Downloadable beta,
> e-learning courses, doucmentation and movies:
> http://microsoft.com/office/preview
>
> 3. Send 2007 Office System Beta 2 feedback directly to the MS Office 2007 product team with this feedback tool:
> http://sas.office.microsoft.com/
>
> 4. Try the 2007 OfficeOnline preview website , without Office2007
>
> a. Install the ActiveX access control
> http://office.microsoft.com/search/r...XT101650581033
>
> b. then visit
> http://officebeta.iponet.net
>
>
>