Project looks into wrong drive to retreave video files

John

Newbie Location: Alveston, Bristol, UK Joined: Mar 06, 2008 12:10 Messages: 31 Offline

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Jun 30, 2009 11:26

I have two projects in PD, the most recent one created last week reloads ok, when I start PD. The previous project created a month ago does not. When I try to load it it tries to retrieve the video from drive G which no longer exists. The reason for this being that all of my PD folders are on my external hard drive & when I created this project my computer allocated G as its drive ref. It now allocates F as the drive ref. Can I in any way tell the project to look in the F drive for the files? Best regards

John

Dafydd B

Senior Contributor Joined: Aug 26, 2006 08:20 Messages: 11973 Offline

Jun 30, 2009 12:05

Make a copy of the pds file.
Open the pds in a text editor - word pad or notepad.
Locate the file addresses within the pds ("G"
Redirect those addresses to the new location, using copy and paste.

Warning - this is a task you need to get right. Make sure you know the address location to the folder in which the files reside.

Best of luck

Dafydd
PS Use: File > Export > pack project materials, next time and you wont have this hassle.

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John

Newbie Location: Alveston, Bristol, UK Joined: Mar 06, 2008 12:10 Messages: 31 Offline

Jun 30, 2009 12:27

Thanks Dafydd, Once again you have saved the day. I had put a lot of hours creating that project, It's now up & running again thanks to you. Best regards

John

vn800rider

Senior Contributor Location: Darwen, UK Joined: May 15, 2008 04:32 Messages: 1949 Offline

Jun 30, 2009 14:45

Hi John,

If you run XP there is a way to prevent the problem. I'm not sure in Vista.

It is 'relatively' staightforward and involves forcing your external drive to mount to a folder rather than a drive letter so avoiding the replacement of drive letters when a disk is mounted.

If you're interested send me a PM and I'll give you more details.

Cheers
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