Hi rbowser -

There must be a reason your copied/pasted profiles from the PD9 Profile.ini aren't showing up under the custom profiles in PD11.

Could you please attach your original PD9 Profile.ini document here? Members may be able to test & locate the issue. That might save you remaking the profiles.

C:\Users\xxxx\AppData\Roaming\CyberLink\PowerDirector\9.0

Attached is a .pdf describing the basic steps of customising a profile by editing the Profile.ini

Cheers - Tony
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Quote: Hi rbowser -

There must be a reason your copied/pasted profiles from the PD9 Profile.ini aren't showing up under the custom profiles in PD11.

Could you please attach your original PD9 Profile.ini document here? Members may be able to test & locate the issue. That might save you remaking the profiles.

C:\Users\xxxx\AppData\Roaming\CyberLink\PowerDirector\9.0

Attached is a .pdf describing the basic steps of customising a profile by editing the Profile.ini

Cheers - Tony

Thanks for the reply, Tony - I'm attaching the original PD9 Profile .ini file as requested.

Right now, I'm unable to make any new profiles in PD11. I choose custom options in the Produce window, like I did in PD 9, and it won't be saved. Like I said in my original post, a message comes up about no custom profiles existing - That's like, unresponsive, has nothing to do with trying to create one. The error message sounds like it thinks I'm trying to open a profile, not make one.

I've looked at the PDF you attached - This doesn't mean that to make a custom profile, you always have to go the .ini file and edit it, right? This is only if you're trying to use some parameter that isn't allowed while there inside the program--?

rbowser

More info! After replying to you just now, Tony, I took a look at the PD 11 ini file and it looks messed up. When I first followed the instructions to paste in the profiles from PD9, PD11's ini file was empty. Fine - Today I was trying to make some custom profiles in PD11, wasn't successful. Now it looks like the program was trying to add the new things to the file --um, but---

I'm attaching this PD 11 ini file - look at the bottom half-- It's double spaced between every character! Above that you can see the PD9 text I pasted.--- ?

rbowser

You're right.

That PD11 Profile.ini is a mess! Somehow the formatting's been corrupted. Was it edited directly in Notepad? It looks like it's been processed somewhere else.

When I copied & pasted your PD9 profiles into my PD11 Profile.ini the profiles all appeared in the Produce module (pic attached) - so nothing wrong there.

I would either:
(a) go to C:\Users\xxxx\AppData\Roaming\CyberLink\PowerDirector\11.0 - select the Profile.ini & delete it. PD will generate a new one as soon as you click the + button
- see if you can customise a profile now
(b) delete the Profile.ini as above, then go to C:\Users\xxxx\AppData\Roaming\CyberLink\PowerDirector\9.0 - right click on Profil.ini > Copy - then paste in in the 11.0 folder.

Cheers (& good luck) - Tony
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(b) delete the Profile.ini as above, then go to C:\Users\xxxx\AppData\Roaming\CyberLink\PowerDirector\9.0 - right click on Profil.ini > Copy - then paste in in the 11.0 folder...

That did the trick, Tony! Got me old profiles in PD11 now. AND I know now what I did wrong earlier - User Error time. The other day I followed the instructions to open the old .ini file, copy it, and paste the text into the blank PD11 .ini file. Well, I used Notepad to do that editing, and it did the job of messing up the formatting.

So, copying text and pasting didn't work, but just copying the file and pasting it, without copying text - that worked.

Thanks much, Tony!

rbowser