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[muscle750]

I have just rearranged all my folders in "My Pictures" moving various pictures from folder to folder now however many of my AVs ive saved in PTE dont work as its telling it cant find the file etc even thou its only been moved and not deleted. Have i dropped a right clanger?? HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

U CAN E MAIL ME andrew@aroberts36.fsnet.co.uk

THANKS!

[Ken Cox]

Muscle

welcome to the forum

Take copies of music notes picts pte exe etc and put in one folder

been discussed many times

and your problems will go away

set up a fresh folder for each show in the future

ken

[Dave Wilcox]

I have just rearranged all my folders in "My Pictures" moving various pictures from folder to folder now however many of my AVs ive saved in PTE dont work as its telling it cant find the file etc even thou its only been moved and not deleted. Have i dropped a right clanger?? HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

U CAN E MAIL ME andrew@aroberts36.fsnet.co.uk

THANKS!

Andrew

The short answer to your question on the PTE Forum is yes!!

When you save a PTE project, you are only saving information, ie where the programme can find the pictures and music it needs to open the project, so if you move the files it can no longer locate them. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but the only answer is to return all the files to where they were origionally and in future start a new project from a folder specially created for the project and keep all pictures and music for that project in the one folder.

Regards

Dave

[Lin Evans]

Andrew

The short answer to your question on the PTE Forum is yes!!

When you save a PTE project, you are only saving information, ie where the programme can find the pictures and music it needs to open the project, so if you move the files it can no longer locate them. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but the only answer is to return all the files to where they were origionally and in future start a new project from a folder specially created for the project and keep all pictures and music for that project in the one folder.

Regards

Dave

Actually, there are two ways. One way is to "try" to put all the fles back where they were. The other way is to locate and write down the present path to each file and modify the .pte file with the Windows text editor to provide the current locations.

In some cases it may be easier to simply modify the .pte file because the Windows editor has a search and replace all feature. It's not difficult to use.

You may want to simply use the Windows search to find each file then carefully write down each file and the path where it currently exists. Then open each .pte file and use the Windows editor to find the files and paths and replace them with the new paths. Otherwise you will have to search each .pte file and be sure you copy each file exactly where it was. I suspect it would be easier to do it the other way.

Lin

[alrobin]

Ken's suggestion is still the easiest. It's a lot of work, especially in a large show, and even worse with a number of shows, to go through and change the pathnames for all sound and images in each show.

[denwell]

Muscle

Download SY(P) from here : http://www.diapovision.com/articles/syp.zip

This excellent app will sort out your problem in minutes,

Written by Jean – Claude Senedal especially to compliment PTE, it provides a graphical overview of any PTE show- allowing changes to all parameters, and also to change the images/audio paths very easily indeed.

Do please take a look! I feel this fine piece of software is underated by many PTE users.

DEN NE (UK)

[ContaxMan]

Do please take a look! I feel this fine piece of software is underated by many PTE users.

I second that - it's invaluable.