PowerDirector Version:11.3.0
Build Number: 1214060
Phone: Samsung Galaxy A71
Andriod Version: 13

Good morning everyone. I've been using PowerDirector for a small period and am really enjoying how powerful it is for something that works on a phone and even paid for the full version.

I've been finding a few little niggles with the app but this one is a big one for me. My work flow is the following. Record videos using multiple cameras, back up the data onto an external hard drive which is between 30 to 60 GB. Put the files onto a micro SD card, pop that into my phone and edit.

The other day I needed to go back into a project on PowerDirector to make a few tweaks to the video. So I loaded up a micro SD card with the files and put it back into my phone and got greeted with the following error...



The ones under /storage/emulated/ were easily fixed as I put those files back into either the download section of my phone or the quick share folder and they reappeared on the timeline in PowerDirector.

The ones from the micro SD card on the other hand I could not get to appear. These are the things that I tried:

I put the video files stright onto the SD card with no folders. That didn't work.
I put the video files into a folder called DCIM. That didn't work.
I made a folder called 40C2-11E9 and then made a folder in that called DCIM and put the video files inside. That didn't work.
I formatted the micro SD card and called it 40C2-11E9 and then tried the above things again. That didn't work.

I'm guessing that when an SD card is inserted into a Andriod phone, it gets given a unique virtual name, in this case, 40C2-11E9. Then once the card is ejected and then reinserted, it gets given another unique name?

The only way I managed to "fix" it was to connect my phone to a windows computer, find the project file, open it in notepad, edit every pathfile line to point to downloads on my phone rather than the micro SD card, put all the files into the download section of my phone AND THEN it would work.

Now to my question. Is there anyway to point PowerDirector to a new place where the files are stored? When I used Sony Vegas in the past, if it found missing files it would give you the option to show it where the new folder was that had the files in and I'm guessing it would check to make sure the filenames in the new folder matched what it had in it's timeline.

I know that PowerDirector gives the option to replace the file but that isn't much good if you don't know the exact place in the video file that you've used. What I'd like to see is a button next to the replace one that is labelled "relocate". You then select the file in it's new location and PowerDirector changes the filepath itself. Then if it's being really smart, it then scans the folder to see if any of the other video files are contained within it as some of my projects have close to 100 cuts to it so sourcing every individual file could be very very time consuming.

Sorry for the ultra long message, I just wanted to get in as much detail as I could as this issue could make or break me continuing to use PowerDirector as this error is going to affect most of my previous projects.

Thanks.