Organizer a memory hog?

Thanks Sepiana! I just discovered this very interesting forum and will certainly look for advice, techniques and ideas!

Michelb, thanks for your timely response! Being new to Organizer, thank you for pointing out that my title is too broad, and that it is probably Face Recognition at the root of the problem of RAM usage. And I did get some serious responses in the Adobe forum, and I implemented their suggestions as best as I can. But I don't consider them answers. That is unless I do as you suggested and I not use a significant feature of Organizer. I've used and taught various computer applications, and I don't remember one in which I had to warn others that although xyz is a feature of a program, I advise you not to use it. Especially on a beefed up computer! If Face Recognition is indeed a limitation of Organizer, then I would expect Adobe to warn users of this limitation - and I have yet to find such a warning.
Maybe I've missed it.

Again, being new to Organizer I was and am seeking help in avoiding the unusual use of RAM by Organizer. I believe that all such forums as this one and Adobe's is to seek answers as to how to solve such problem, not avoid it. Thus my post. I guess that comes from being a old science, math and technology teacher.  Contrary to your evaluation of Facial Recognition as being totally useless for you, I sincerely hope that it will be of great help to me!

I am a self-appointed family historian. I continue to gather documents, letters, photos (prints and digital), videos, etc. from 5 generations of my family.  (Hopefully you can see a shot of my work area that I've attempted to embed. Those boxes are stuffed with family photos that I'm still organizing before I scan them.)  While my mother was a prolific generator of photos from the 1930's - 1950's, her total volume is dwarfed by what I have shot myself (videos & photos over 40+ years) and what I have received from my siblings, our children and now our grandchildren - we have 19, and they all have phones!  Analog cameras and digital cameras and phones are both a boon and a bane when it comes to the generation and organization of photos and videos.

Being a rainy day today, I happily continued my work on trying to put some organization and identification to hundreds, maybe thousands of photos I've received from just one grandchild (we have 19). She just had her second child, and gleefully uses both her camera and phone to generate photos daily. As you know, the metadata on digital photos reveals the time and day a photo was created, but doesn't distinguish photos of her family, her dogs, items from her hobbies, interesting things in the environment (my influence, I hope), friends, etc., etc. There's no geotag. And of course, she creates some videos with her phone too!

A couple of weeks ago, I received 26 VHS tapes to digitize from a granddaughter-in-law that were made during her childhood. (She has 2 children and a phone too!) She is very excited about viewing them for the first time after I have captured them and cleaned them up with Premiere Elements. Some of the tapes have dates embedded, some the cases have labels, most have neither. And of course, there's not even metadata to work with in them.

Ditto some very old 8mm tapes that my father-in-law made of my wife's family. Now that's FUN working with those old brittle, faded, Scotch tape spliced tapes! 

So, I continually and happily work with an overwhelming amount of raw materials and I'm looking for ANYTHING that can be a tool of organization.  I'm sincerely hoping facial recognition will be one of those tools! Maybe not.

I've yet to edit my profile to indicate that I'm very much open to feedback. Will do that shortly.