I have PhotoDirector (PD) 365. I was working on about 10 pictures that I had imported into the PD program. After I finished my work and exported the pics, I closed everything.

Next day, I turn on my computer and manually deleted all the original and edited pictures folder from my desktop.

Now I open PD 365 and it says "Picture can't be found". No problem. I clicked on "Remove All" from Library option.
Damn thing was spinning for 5 minutes on the very last step (I think it was called Cleaning up PhotoDirector Library or something.)
Anyway, I opened Task Manager and nuked the program.

Now each time I open PD, the logo in the middle screen doesn't go away and there is a message behind it that I was able to capture by recording my screen since it was there for only a second.

The message says:
Cyberlink Photodirector is checking the project...please wait.
C:\Users\Jim\Pictures\PhotoDirector\12.0\Jim\Jim.phd


What the hell is it doing and why is it taking this long?

Are we NEVER supposed to delete the pictures manually from outside PhotoDirector??? I'll try to restart the computer now to see if that fixes it, but it is frustrating that the program cannot handle deletion of photos well.