Wow that's a bummer, just checked mine and all is well, nothing missing, whew. My youtube channel====> http://www.youtube.com/user/relate2?feature=mhsn

Where (what drive/folder) were your project files located Tom?
Dafydd

David, and all:

I have identified what happened, and why. And it is my error, of course. PowerDirector 11 is not at fault.

What happened, is this:

I save all my projects and produced videos to two different folders in an external hard drive, NOT the main C-drive. I do this because in the past my main C-drive was small and my external hard drive was huge.

When I installed PD11, it defaulted to saving the projects to my C-drive and I elected to have them saved in my existing projects folder on my external hard drive. I thought they would all co-exist. This is how I created the problem, that ended up wiping my old projects away.

I did not know what I was doing. I should have let PD11 create a new Saved Projects folder. Instead I directed it to my previous saved projects folder and all those files got overwritten.

Now, if someone has PD10 on their C-drive, and also has their saved projects on their C-drive, I do not know how PD11 proceeds but it is possible it creates a new folder and leaves the older PD10 folder alone.

By my directing the PD11 projects to my existing PD10 folder, I ruined it.

I used a file recovery program to see if it could locate my old PD10 projects. And it did. But it also informed me that the files had been overwritten by PD11 and could not be recovered. This is how I learned of my error. ~Tom~

Tom:

Glad to hear that your file recovery software was able to recover your old PD10 projects.

By default, PD saves your projects to a folder under "...\My Documents\Cyberlink\PowerDirector\Version# (10.0 or 11.0, in the cases of PD10 and PD11). If you had accepted the default install and configuration, your old PD10 projects would have been in the "10.0" folder and your new PD11 projects would have been saved in the "11.0" folder, and nothing would have been lost or overwritten.

I didn't take any chances - I saved all of my project files and templates to an external drive BEFORE I installed the PD11 Ultimate upgrade.

All is well that ends well. Have a great day.

Regards,
-Phil Windows 10 Pro x64
Dell XPS 8930
Intel CoreT i7 (4.6 GHz)
32 GB DDR4-2666 RAM
1 TB PCIe -x4 SSD
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
PD14 Ultimate x64, 4207
CD4 Ultra and AD6 Ultra
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Who's David?

Dafydd,
Pronounced Da-Vith.

lol... Sorry!

No, the file recovery only informed me they are lost, unrecoverable. ~Tom~

Kmot I just went and look. I open a poject up I did in 10 a month ago and everything was fine. I have the .pds file save in the defult place My Doc. Cyberlink I have 10 folder and a 11 folder.

I do store my video footage in a folder on C drive a folder called GoPro. Now after I edit and produce one file for the web at a lower bitrate and one at the settings that match the GoPro. I move those files over to a usb drive and back up as data to a bluray disk has a nother backup. Intel i7 5960X overclock to 4 Ghz 16 GB of ram.
GoPro 4
Canon VIXIA HF G10
Canon EOS Rebel T3
Canon EOS 70D
My Vimeo Channel http://vimeo.com/user3339631/videos

Tom:

That is a real shame. Have you tried checking your "AutoSave" folder - you might find something there? PD saves both a 10.0 and an 11.0 folder, if you have had both versions installed, as you did. The address for my existing 10.0 folder is shown below:

C:\Users\Phil\AppData\Roaming\CyberLink\PowerDirector\10.0\AutoSave

Actually now that I have found that the PD10 Autosave folder is still there, I am going to nuke it because I no longer have any PD10 projects on my computer. Everything has been loaded into PD11.

I was surprised to find that 10.0 AutoSave folder because I did the PD10 uninstall with Revo Uninstaller Pro and it normally takes out everything.

Wishing you luck. Have a great day.

Regards,
-Phil Windows 10 Pro x64
Dell XPS 8930
Intel CoreT i7 (4.6 GHz)
32 GB DDR4-2666 RAM
1 TB PCIe -x4 SSD
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
PD14 Ultimate x64, 4207
CD4 Ultra and AD6 Ultra
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This is how it looks on my C drive with the defalt settings. With 10 and 11 installed.
Intel i7 5960X overclock to 4 Ghz 16 GB of ram.
GoPro 4
Canon VIXIA HF G10
Canon EOS Rebel T3
Canon EOS 70D
My Vimeo Channel http://vimeo.com/user3339631/videos

Thanks Phil and Michael!

I am amazed at how many folders there are in different places! ~Tom~

Tom: Glad to help out. Did you find any PD10 AutoSave files to recover your former projects?

Hope so. Have a great day.

Regards,
-Phil Windows 10 Pro x64
Dell XPS 8930
Intel CoreT i7 (4.6 GHz)
32 GB DDR4-2666 RAM
1 TB PCIe -x4 SSD
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
PD14 Ultimate x64, 4207
CD4 Ultra and AD6 Ultra
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Yes Phil, I have located some in an AutoSave folder. I have yet to try to activate one though. ~Tom~

Phil,

I'll be doggonned! They still work! Thanks! ~Tom~

You're welcome, Tom. Glad it worked out for you. Happy video editing with PD11!

Have a great day.

Regards,
-Phil Windows 10 Pro x64
Dell XPS 8930
Intel CoreT i7 (4.6 GHz)
32 GB DDR4-2666 RAM
1 TB PCIe -x4 SSD
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
PD14 Ultimate x64, 4207
CD4 Ultra and AD6 Ultra
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