Hi Eric -

Only recently, Adrian wrote, "Aaaaaah Tony..." Reading between the a's, I could tell what he meant. There weren't too many options:

(a) "Aaaaaah Tony - what a joy it is to be writing this post for your edification."

(b) "Aaaaaah Tony - you never cease to amaze me with your insightful questions. Once again, you have been able to accurately reflect and articulate the concerns of your colleagues."

(c) "Aaaaaah Tony - you dopey nong! How can you possibly not understand that? It's simple!"

Anyway - I digress. The point is - now I get to say, "Aaaaaah Eric!"

From the different posts you've made, it seems your system is having trouble coping with the demands of PD7. I'm not being critical - mine has trouble sometimes too. Video editing obviously demands a lot more of your PC than many other operations.

You're right about PD7 having some issues - we know about those. What I try to do with my ageing-a-little PC is to try to make sure that it's humming along as well as it can. If it's not, it will seriously interfere with happy video editing.

Eric - I think you already know all the things you need to do to make that happen. From the sound of things in your previous posts, hard drive (C) space is an issue. I would be clearing it out - store things on an external disc, free it up so your videos, projects & PD7 have "room to play."

If you read Dafydd's post in http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/7038.page it lists a number of things that could be causing your issue, even though you're not getting the same error message.

How about giving those a try? I'm very sure that it's not ALL PD7's fault.

Cheers -

Tony
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Hi Eric,

Please read the information Tony has directed you to - gives you a general "heads up" on what to prevent.

Please read:
http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/2405.page
Subject: PowerDirector - information we request and tasks to carry out.
PART O
relates to pds files.

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Tony, I've edited your post, with some delight I might add, I removed a comma you'd placed just after the url which caused a link error. No need to worry, I know you're laughing!

Dafydd

Hurrrrumph!

That comma was placed there for artistic verisimilitude! Now - it's ruined! Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.


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AHAH! YAY! I think I recovered my file. Either my computer or PowerDirector did a backup file which I was able to open. I might just have to downgrade my angry rant from hating PowerDirector to being mildly irritated with it... and return to hating my computer and Microsoft instead. Thanks for the help.
-Eric