Reinstalling Windows. Worried about my Cyberlink files.

jaymay22

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Jul 21, 2015 19:51

Hi all,

Before Windows 10 comes out, I'm going to reinstall my windows 7 as it has some very annoying corruptions, (thanks kids) and updates that won't update, and I'd rather start with a clean slate and not have those annoyances carry over to W10.

I'm worried about my Cyberink. I had CL PD11, and uninstalled it (which I probably shouldn't have done??) to get CLPD13 Ultimate.

So, what I'm worried about is

a) there seems to be a lot of particle and other files in my documents folder...not MY documents, and not in a 'cyberlink' folder... the Documents one in the library folder, they're loose, very weird. I don't know how they got there. I certainly didn't nominate that place for anything. I prefer things in Cyberlink folders. (but I don't know much about it.)

b) Any templates I've made along the time, in both versions, I'd like to keep. How? and where are they? I've made titles and new particles etc.

c) So, I'm going to reinstall. That means i'll have to reinstall CL too. But do I (this time) install PD11 first? then PD13 over it, to get all the 'old' templates as well as the current ones?

d) and how do I then reinstall my own bits and pieces, like my own templates, downloads I've found from directorzone etc.

e) and what folders should things REALLY be in.

f) if I change folders etc, to what they should be, will my packed projects that I've exported for safekeeping still be ok? I assume so since they have all the things in them, I'm hoping theyre not just shortcuts, or they wont' work any more.

If you could give me a 'how to...' that would be great.

This doesn't make much sense, but hopefully you know what I mean. Thanks.
Jenny

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Jenny

ynotfish

Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Online

Jul 21, 2015 20:39

Hi Jenny -

All you need to do is make backup copies of the folders containing your packed projects, custom & downloaded effect etc. Store these on a separate drive so they can be re-added after your system update & software re-install.

C:\UserName\Tony\Documents\CyberLink contains a Custom Menus folder
C:\Users\UserName\Documents\CyberLink\PowerDirector\13.0 contains a number of folders with custom effects... MyParticles, MyPinPs, MyStrokes, MyTitles, MyTrans, Paths In fact, it's worth backing up the whole 13.0 folder to be sure.
C:\Users\Public\CyberLink contains all your downloaded effects from DirectorZone

They're the folders those things "should really be in". Your output folder location - where you save & pack projects & send produced files is completely up to you... but, wherever it is, back that up too.

Cheers - Tony

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jaymay22

Member Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia. Joined: Aug 27, 2009 07:18 Messages: 143 Offline

Jul 22, 2015 01:04

Thanks Tony,

The folder with my packed projects is fine then, it's stored in a zillion places, with a zillion copies. I'm super careful with it. (as long as moving things won't break any shortcuts)

OK, attached is a clip of the Documents folder in Library. (you know how there's 3 doc folders? one in library, another as a second tier in the libary, and one under user). The second tier of library and user are the same, but the top tier...the first doc folder, has all these loose cyberlink files in it (no cyberlink or other folders). It has hundreds of things in there. color director files, backgrounds for titles, png files... It's these I'm trying to work out where they should go and how they got there. I want to move them to the place they are supposed to be, as I suspect this is not right. The clip shows only 1/4 of the files in there... Where are they supposed to be? And (maybe you know) why are they saved to this location? is it a setting I'm doing wrong?

And, do I reinstall pd11 first, then pd 13 over the top of it, to retain all the 'old' templates ?
Then, are you saying I need to copy the contents of the folders in red above, to the new folders created by cyberlink on reinstallation? (sorry, really dumb questions, I know.)


Filename	doc folder with clpd13 files in it..JPG	Download
Description	files in library docs, not MY documents.
Filesize	182 Kbytes
Downloaded:	68 time(s)

Jenny

tomasc

Senior Contributor Joined: Aug 25, 2011 12:33 Messages: 6464 Offline

Jul 22, 2015 02:20

Looking at your attached jpg file. The (2) Documents folder below the (1) should not exist. Did you or an app create it. Right mouse click on that folder and look at the properties to see the date when it was created. The (3) Documents folder should be the My Documents folder under Jeff and Jenny. Not sure what happened here...

Here is the answer, it is okay as I have relocated my libraries in my pc : http://www.ocregister.com/articles/documents-285507-folder-libraries.html .

jaymay22

Member Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia. Joined: Aug 27, 2009 07:18 Messages: 143 Offline

Jul 22, 2015 08:22

Thanks Tomasc, that really helps! I had no idea. I mean, I thought it was strange, but Windows can sometimes be a bit of a mystery. So I'll delete the second tier documents folder, first copying it's contents to the first tier folder making the 1st one.
I'll leave the doc folder in the user, as the 2nd one.

Which still leaves the questions,...why are those cyberlink files loose in the 1st doc folder? and where should they really be? They are a wide variety of files, pngs, jpegs, backgrounds, particles, and colour director files etc.

And, when reinstalling do I install PD11 first, then PD13 over the top? to preserve the original pd11 templates that don't come with pd13? Jenny

tomasc

Senior Contributor Joined: Aug 25, 2011 12:33 Messages: 6464 Offline

Jul 22, 2015 14:32

I beleive in this post that you are reinstalling Win 7 and PowerDirector rather than just doing a repair to win 7.

You should install PD11 first and then install PD13 and keep both versions in my opinion. There are the older videos like dv that work well in PD11 but does not seem to work as well in PD13 even with patches if you follow the forum posts here. Some user created menus in PD11 may have problems in PD13 unless modified.

If your PD13 is an upgrade rather than a full version in which it uninstals PD11, then try this:

1.Make a note of the PD11 templates you want (menus, titles, etc)

2. Highlight the template and click modify on each one you want that is not available in PD13. Make the changes you want or no changes at all and save it under a slightly different name.

3.Those modified templates will be saved to the custom folders and will be available for use in PD13.

Let us know if this helps...