hi just thought this further information might be helpful (sorry i'm not very technical :)

Initially I waited for some time (over 10 minutes) for it to rectify itself, though it didn't so i totally uninstalled the program a number of times before reinstalling, also restarted laptop to no avail. I then deleted the index file and reinstalled the program and it worked fine - though obviously I had to start from the beginning.

So I have tagged now nearly 500 photos (of a total 11,500 which I eventually hope to have indexed) and restarted the program - and it appeared to freeze again, though this time it fixed itself after a short while.

I wonder whether the number of photos that I am importing should be causing this?

Any help greatly appreciated.

Thanks for your response Asaf - I thought it was rather prompt actually

I have uploaded my index file to:

Just to let you know, after restarting I got up to about 1,100 before it happened again.

All photos are in .jpg format, and almost all are 2560 x 1920 px and around 1.7-1.9MB in size.

I have uploaded the index file to: http://dl1u.savefile.com/264191673f422b8a36746f9c711fbeed/MyPhotoIndex.mdb

I really appreciate your time. Thanks so much.

Kim