Ok, in the interest of fairness, the main problem with my library (being unable to save) has been sorted out. it took me up until 5am troubleshooting, and 4 more hours this morning, but for the most part it appears to be fine.

The culprit was windows indexing. I've got no idea why the library was relying on it to list files, but it was getting hung up somehow. I started suspecting it was corrupted as Outlook keep having issues with speed search (also done through indexing). After trying without luck to turn indexing off for the HDD, I had to kill the indexing process, turn off windows search from the start up, reboot the machine, verify that things were not loading automatically, and test... and P8's library worked. So in the end I had to rebuild Windows' index, which took quite a while, but things seem to be running fine now.

PP2010 is now refusing to save to library unless I am running the program as an admin, but comparing with crashes, I'd think that's a minor issue.

Btw, the library is still a bit slow to load, and not 100% reliable when it comes to show ALL that is in the folders, but that's a different issue.

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